The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-04-11

EFFORTS AND SACRIFICES

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EFFORTS AND SACRIFICES
Milton Sheridan Sharp, Chairman
of the Board of Directors of the
Bradford Dyers Association, Ltd,
(England) opened the annual meet
ing of the stockholders on February
%, 1919, with these words,-"After
four years of the most terrible war
in the history Of the world :.
we meet today after complete victory
has crowned our efforts and our sac
rifces." The chairman then gives in
detail the efforts and sacrifices" of
his company. These include net pro-
fits for the year of $3,2O0,000; 10
per cent. regular dividends on the
common stock; 71a per cent. bonus on
the common stock and surplus,
carried forward of 1,440,000. Mr..
Sharp predicts that with the German
dye industry destroyed, a future of
the greatest prosperity is in store
for his concern.
THE HIGHER THE FEWER
There are more than one hundred
millions of people in the United
States. The last complete returns
from Treasury Department (1916)
show that less than 100000 of these
persons paid income taxes.
121, 691 had incomes over S 10000
| 1905 had incomes over $4,000
1888 had incomes over 100000
582 had incomes over 100000
206 had incomes over 100000
The higher the fewer.
Among the families of the tens of
millions upon whose tiny incomes nc
tax was assessed, men, women and
even little children rose by the
factory whistle and gave the best
part of their days and the best part
of their lives to the work Of feed.
ing, clothing, housing and in other
ways providing for the human race
The whole family, by it's labor gaine1
bare subsistence.
Among the families with five anc
ten thousand year, the men went
to the offices; the women remained
in their homes; the children attended
school. The incomes were adequate
and they were earned by the father
alone.
Among the families with fifty, {
: hundred and five hundred thousand
sometimes one member worked
I, sometimes no one worked. The ing
ures show that from two-thirds t.
ninety-nine hundredths Of these i'll
Z comes consisted of rent, interest
? dividends and profts-the return
I paid to those who own the tools
y with which the men, women AM
Q children of the toilers must work Il
order to live. j.,
Among the toilers, the who'll
family works and often starves
} Among the wealthy owners frequent
ly no one works-yet all live in abun
II dance.
The higher the fewer.
5 This crazy, economic patchwork i
e the foundation of the civilization
d about which we hear so much fror
4 the Chicago Tribune and the Ne0
G York Times. It is the handiwork Q
s parasites and plunderers. Day al
IS ter day it cries aloud to heaven TO
II mechanics and artisans who will tax
it in hand and rebuild it from tn
bottom.
THEY CANNOT RESUME!
The wheels of industry have stoI
ped turning in Europe. For the pre-
In emit, at least, they cannot resume.
The European world is at stant
Is still. Ten millions of men are stl
le in the armies-using without produ
to ing. Commerce has been Interrupt
le ed; railroads have been destroyed
Of factories are crippled; fruit tree
Ut have been cut down; the seed graz
NJ has been eaten; homes have bee
IS burned; millions of workers al
dead or crippled, other millions a
q. out of work; those who have Wo1
are so hungry that they are no lon
:. err efficient; above their heads tow
. mountains of debts, and week
D week slips by without any prom
~ of peace.
Dc The old world has come to an en-
VI It's machinery is worn out; It's met
DDS have failed to make men hapl
VII and free: it's race has been run.
tie Yonder is the new world. A wor
tic of bread. peace, enlightenment al
he liberty. Already the peoples
st, Russia, Hungary and Bohemia ma
in. entered in to possess it. Hcw nu
We longer will it be oefo:e the Work"
sc of italy, France and Great Brlta
h leave capitalism TO bury its dead a
ioin their comrades?
EXPORTS
nh Judge Ebert o. Gary, Charm
~, If the Board of the United Stat
Ms Steel Corporation, said in pup
all