The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 29, 1915, Image 6
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CUM MET
. fflf FARMER
WANTS NO "DEADHEADS" ON
LIST OF EMPLOYES.
A CALL UPON THE LAW MAKERS
TO PREVENT U8ELE88 TAX
UPON AGRtCULTURE.
By Peter Radford
lecturer National Farnu-iB' lTnlon
The f armor is tho paymaster of
industry and as such he muni moot
the nation'M payroll. When Industry ,
pays Its bill it must make a night
draft upou agriculture for tho amount,
which tho farmer lu compelled to
honor without protest This cheek
drawn upon agriculture may travel to
and fro over the highways of com
merce; may build cities; girdle tho
globe with bandH of Hteel; may search
hidden treasures iu the earth or t
traverse tho akiua, but in tho end it ?
will rest upon tho soil. No dollar
will remain suspended In midair; it la
as certain to seek tho earth's surface
us an apple that falls from a tree.
VS'hen a farmer buys a plow ho pays
tho man who mined the metal, tho
woodman who felled the treo, tho
manufacturer who assembled the raw
material and shaped It into an ar
ticle of usefulness,* the railroad that
^ transported it am1 the dealer who
sold him tho goods He pays tho |
wages of labor and capital employed j
in the transaction as well as pays ,
for the tools, machinery, buildings, ,
etc., used in the construction of tho '
commodity and the same applies to ,
all articles of u?o and diet of him- j
self and those engaged in the sub- i
sldiary lines of industry.
There is no payroll in civilization J
that does not rest upon the back j
of the farmer He must pay the hills,,
? al* of them
Tho total value of the nation's
annual at.;ricultura' products is m ound i
$12,000,000,000. and It is safe to ? st i- '
mate that 9."? cents on every dt.'lar
goes to meeting the expenses of sub- !
sldiary industries Tho fanner does j
riot work more than thirty minutes j
per da> for himself; the remaining
thirteen hours of the day's toil he !
devotes to meeting the payroll the !
hired hands of agriculture, u !i a>? j
the manufacturer, railroad, con.iiu'r- !
cial and o' her rcrvan'.s ?
The Farmer's Payroll and Hew He j
Meets It.
The annual payroll of agrlcnlturr
approxim.iu s $ I U.uoo.uou.ooo a pur
tion ot the amount is shifted to for
eign < mint rii'.s in exports, but tin
total payroll of Industries working for
the fanner divides substantial!) as
follow- Railroads, $ 1 ,2."?2.0un,oon
manufact urers, $4, ;??>;'?, uon.nni) ; mining
$G nno.noo; banks. $200, nno. ()'???;
mercantile $3,f>00.0m).u00, and a heavy
miscellaneous payroll constitutes tin
remainder.
It talcs the corn crop, tin* iik^
valuable in agriculture, which soiJ
last >?-ar for $ 1 ,f)!)2.?i00,000, to pay oft
the employes of the railroads; the
men : derived from our annua, sales
of livestock ot approximately $i!.oun,
the yearly cotton crop, valued
at $!?_!". ei'O.0(H> ; the wheat crop,
which is worth $tilu,()00,000, and the
oat that is worth $-1-10 ono.nfio,
ore re 'rcl to meet the annual pay
roll of the manufacturers. The
money .i. ;iv<>d from the remaining
Btai?i? ctops is used in meeting the
pa- roll <i the bankers, merchants
<tc. After these obligations are paid,
li.o r . i r i : ? r has only a few bunches of
vr. ?? .! !.<- some fruit and poultry
wh'rh V.r- < .m sell and call the pro
ceeds ... (. All
\\ If ?! <? ''iri.ic: pays of? his hel? |
he has \e:;, little left and to meet I
these tit ... ,jo.;s payrolls he has |
been forecu tn mortgage homes, work j
women in ti e i . id and increase the !
hours of his I .!>? r We are. there- j
fore, compelled to call ujKjn all in- j
dustrles dependei.t upon the farmers i
for subsistence to ntren.'h in their !
expenditures and to < ut off all tin j
necessary expeu?es This course Is .
absolutely necessary in ord? r to avoid
a reduction in wages, and w f want. ;
if possible, to retain the present uago
scale paid i-nilroad and all other in- ?
dustrial employes
We will devote this article to a
discussion of unnecessary expenses
and whether required by law or per
mitted by the managements of the
concerns, is wholly immaterial. We ?
want all waste labor and extrava
gance. of whatever character, cut out.
We win mention the fulljsrew bill as .
Illustrating the eharftoter of
?ttry expenses to which we refer
Union Opposes " f^u 1 1 Crew" Bill.
ThO Texas Far in CIS Union regis
tered Us opposition to tills, character
oi legislation at the lust annual meet
ing held iu Fort Worthy Tex., August
?, l?l4, by reaolVtlon, which we quote,
us follows:
"The matter of prime Importance
to the farmers of this state is an ade
quate and efficient marketing system;
and we recognize thut such a system
iu impossible without adequate rail
road facilities, embracing the greatest I
amount of service at the least pos
sible cost We further recognize that
the farmers and producers in the end
pay approximately 1)5 per cent of the
expenses of operating the ruilroadu,
and it is therefore to the interest of
t lie producers that the expenses of
| tiie common carriers be as small as
is possible, consistent with good ser
1 vice and safety. We, therefore, call
! upon our lawmakers, courts and
1 Juries to bear the foregoing lacts in
1 mind when dealing with the common
carriers of thin state, and wo do espe
cially reailirm the declarations of
tiie last annual convention of our
State Union, opposing the passage of
tiie so-called 'full-crew' bill before
tiie thirty third legislature of Texas."
The fanners of Missouri In the last
election, by an overwhelming ma- )
Jority, swept this law off the statute
book of that state, and it Hhoiild
come off of all statute books where
it appears. and no legislature of this
nation should pass such a law or
nimtlar legislation which requires un
necessary expenditures.
The same rule applies to all regu
latory measures which Increase the
expenses ol industry without giving
corresponding benefits to the public.
There is oft times a body of men as
sembled at legislatures ? and they
have a right to be there ? who, in
their zeal for rendering their fellow
associates a service, sometimes favor
an increase in the expenses of in
dustry without due regard for tho men
who bow their backs to the summer's
sun to meet the payroll, but these
committees, while making a record
for themselves, rub the skin oif tho
shoulders of the farmer by urging the
legislature to lay another burden
upon his heavy load and under tho
kish of "bo it enacted" goad him on
:o pull and surge at tho traces of civil
1 'atlon, no matter how lie may sweat.
'? am and gall at the task. When
legislatures "cut a melon" for labor j
they hand the farmer a lemon.
I he farmers of the United States
. n ro not financially able to curry "dead
h ? alb on their payrolls. Our own
hived hands are not paid unless we
i'uve something tor them to do and
v " are not willing to carry the hired
ft lp of dependent industries unless
i !' ? 1 h; work for them. We must
? ? 1 < > ve insist upon the most rigid
i'..; :;r
Lc:Je;~live House-Cler v.lng Needed.
; rliO v,;ir is on :wr! lh? to in a
;:t t -isiin ????. wo w v l ;i 1 1 legisla
s in t ^ ;-m inventory of
.! ale h< ir.,; . i. l w ipe off all
? ??? '? i ii v iKrtiit and (*!< - .< laws. A Rood
.?,niinp-c!t'H!!t!<? is needed and ocono
can ho i lit- 1 i M> t oti hero and there
?i ? will |. toll tN clothes of indigent
children, rest tired mothers and lift
i. >:*tpages from despondent homes.
I nnecessary workmen taken ('IT and
t;s. lf.-s expenses chopped down al!
a!o:i?? the line will add to the pro.:
! - rity ot tin4 fanner and encourage
' '?> in 1ms nii 'hty effort to feed and
e.'mhe the world
Ir any of Ho se industries have sur
plus employes wo e;in use them on
t !s farm Wo have no regular
!.( hednle of wages hut we pay good
farm hands on an average of ?1 r?<>
per day of thirteen hours when they
hoaru themselves; work usually runs
.shout nine months of the year and the
three months dead time, they can do
the chores for their hoard. li they
prefer to farm on their own account.
In re are more than 11,000,000,000
o res of idle land on the earth's sur
face awaiting the magic touch of the.
plow. The compensation is easily oh
ia.ua.blc from l\>dnrnl Agricultural
Department statistics The total
average annual s.tles of a farm in
the continental United States amounts
to J.'iin.oo; the cost of operation !s
> > 1 o.on ; leaving the farmer $l7t> per
annum t-o live on ;.nd educate his
fa mily.
There is no occasion for the legis
latures making a position for surplus
employes of industry. \j* t them come
"hack to the soil" and share with us
tho prosperity of the farm.
When honesty is merely a good
policy it is a poor virtue.
Lazy farmers ar?"? just as useless as
dead ones and take up more room.
When the soul communes with the
spirit of nature the hack to the farm
movement prevails
There are two kfiids of farmers.
One tries to take all the advice he
hears and the other won't take any
at all
i . v ? Mi? Mm it hit
;? . .i . ? . ! .? ! ? i \ \x i-eks a co a te!
-lie r> 1 1 ; t-.i re< 1 >he said she had
.... It i ? . the woods and eat
r?- v t <->rrje-. She made Me
Miii'iii f- i I .' i health and say
never felt letter than she d??e>
e:i!<Nhnru. ("al. ? A remarkable fall;
in the hea \ en> ? > f meteoric lloss took !
,ne here recently. The floss ranged
-i/.e from tiny specks to -hoots 'JO
oet -m | ua re.
CONGRESS DECRECS DOLLARS IN
DULGING IN LUXURtB^ MUST
FIRST SALUTfc THt FLAG
War Revenue Tax of *105,000,000
Levied ? Beer Bears 8runt of
Burden.
Congress has levied a war (ax of j
$105,000,000 to offset a similar amount j
of Iohh on Import revenue due to the '
European disturbances and of this ,
amount beer i? the heaviest
contributor, having been assessed ap
proximately 150,000.000; u atamp (ax on
negotiable instruments, it ia estimated,
will yield $31,000,000; a tax on the
capital stock of banks of $4,:un>,000
and a tax on tobacco, perfumes, thea
tor tickets, e(c . makes the remainder.
'Congress has decreed that the
brewer, the banker and the investori
must Hhoulder the musket and march
to the front; that milady who would
add to her beauty must brut tip I'ncle
Ham, and a dollar that seeks -pleasure
must llrst salute the flag; that i'leas
ure and 1'rotlt ? the twin heroes of
many wars ? shall tight the nation's
battles and by tin ingeniously ar
ranged schedule of taxation congress
has shifted the war budget from the
shoulders of Necessity to those of
Choice and Gain, touching in its
various ramifications almost every Hue
of business
All hail the dollar that bleeds for
its country; that bares its breast to
the fortunes of war and risks its life
.to preserve the stability and integrity
of the nation's credit
The market place has always been
a favorite stand for war revenue col
lectors The trader is a great finan
cial patriot His dollar is the first to
rally around the star-spangled banner
and the last to hear the coo of the
dove of peace He is called upon to
buy cannon; to feed and clothe the
boyR in blue and each month cheer
their hearts with the -coin of the
realm. Men can neither be free nor
nrave without food and ammunition,
and money is as important a factor
m war as blood Many monuments
have been ererted in honor of heroes
slain In battles poems hnve been writ
ten euloei/.ine their noble deeds and
the nation nonors tts soldiers while
they live and places a monument .ipon
their graves when they die bn' very
little been said of the dollar that
bears die ourdens of war
Honor- to the Dollar that Bea-s the j
Burdens of War
All honor to the dollar th::' an
swers the. call to arms and when
the battle is over bunda^ev the
wounds of stricken solrlterp 'avs a
wreath upon the graves of fallen
heroes* and cares for the widows and
orphans
All nonor to tin1 industries that 1
bend their backs under t lie burdens
of war; lirt the welcht from the shoul
dors r>f tho poor and build a bulwark
around the nation's credit.
All nonor to those who contribute
to the necessities and administer to
the comforts of the boys who are
marching: cool the fever of afflicted
soldiers and kneel with the crrtss be- i
; *dde dying heroes
A dollar may tight its competitor in
business, industries may struggle for
1 supremacy in trsi le and occupations
I may view each other with envy or
J suspicion, but when the bugle calls
they bury strife and rally around the
Mag, companions and friends, mess
mates and chums, all fighting for one
flap:, one cause and one country.
The luxuries in life have always
been the great burden-bearers in gov
ernment We will mention a few of
them giving tho annual contributions
to the nation's treasury: Liquor, $250,
000, oon; tobacco, $10.?. 000. 000; sugar,
, $54,000,000; silks. $ Ui .500.0' >0; dia
monds, $3,837,000; millinery. $2,479,
000 ; furs. $2,024,000 and automobiles,
j $870,000. We collect $665,000,000 of
internal and custom revenue annually
and $150,000,000 of this amount classi
fies as luxuries, and to this amount
we should add the $100,000,000 war tax
now levied.
The war tax is Immediately effec
tive Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! tho
industries are marching $100,000, 000
strong and beneath the starry flag
they will ill! the treasury again while
they ?nout, "Hurrah for I'ncle Sam!"
In every Held of human activity the
demand for more competent men and
women is growing every day. Espe
cially so in agriculture
Home pride is a mighty valuable as
set, and the farmer who nas none Is
carrying a heavy Handicap on the
road to success
Work is the salve thai ucals the
wounded neart
New York.-- Muses Wooler eolehrat*
ed his looth birthday with a party at
which he made emourairitr.; efforts to
learn the tango. Wooler Is positive he
will live to be IP), and it's hi* L'rent*
??>?{ ambition. He smokes ."*> to 1 < > el
gars every day. besides a pipe nnd con
sumes a beaker of imported beer with
eaeli meal. "T??b?eru and ale ha\e kept
me healthy" he told a World interview
er "and I'm better than lots of men
at fW>." He walks daily without a
cane, reads the without t/iaxscM
and never has, been seriously ill.
ROADS AS. CROP PRODUCERS
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Government 8tudle? Show How the
Agricultural Output of Country
Depends Upon It* Highways.
That hu improved loud will Increase
vastly the productiveness of the area
through which It runs has now been
satisfactorily demonstrated by stud
lew conducted by the United States
department of agricultural in Vir
ginia. Conditions In Spotsylvania
county wore Investigated with par
tlcular care ayd the results have
proved suprlsing. In 1909, the coun
ty voted $100,000 to Improve 40 miles
of road. Two years after the com
pletion of this work the railroad took
away In 12 months from Fredericks
burg, the county seat, 71,000 tons of
agricultural and forest products hauled
over tho highways of that town
Before tho Improvement of the
roads this total was only 49,000 tons
annually; In other words, the quantity
of the county's produce bad risen
more than 45 per cent. Still more In
terosting. however, Is the Increase
shown in the quantity of the dairy
products. In 1909 those amounted to
114.815 pounds. In 1911 to 273,028
pounds, an Increase of practically 140
per cent In two years. In the same
time shipments of wheat had Increased
59 per cent, tobacco .11 per cent, and
lumber and other forest products 48
per cent.
In addition to this increase -In quan
tity the cost of hauling each ton of
produce was materially reduced. In
other words, tho farmers not only pro
duced more, but produces more cheap
ly, for the coBt of transportation to
market Is of course an important fac
tor in the cost of production. From
this point of view, It Is estimated that
the $100,000 spent In improving tho
road In Spotsylvania county saved the
farmers of that county $41,000 a year.
In the past two years the traffic
studies of the federal experts show
that approximately an average of t?B,
OOii .. us of outgoing products were
hau>d over the improved roads in
th?* county an av< rage distance of
eirht mites, or a total of 5-0,000 "ton
miles." Before the road** were im
. cvi .1 it v. s estimated 'hat the aver !
age cost of hauling was 20 cents a j
?'ton-mile;" after the improvement t!:!a
fell to 12 c? nts a "ton mile." or a aav- j
Ing of eight c 'its A savii.^ of eight ,
cewts per nvile on 520,000 "tou-fniles'' j
Is $ 11.000 a year j
Because this saving, in cases of tliis j
character, does not. take the form of i
cash put directly into the., farmers j
pockt t. there is e widespread tendency !
to believe that it is fictitious profit,
while as a matter of fact it Is just
as real a source of profit as an in
crease in the price of wheat.
In Dinwiddie county, Virginia, for
example, where peanuts are one of
the staple crops, the average load for
two mules on a main road was about
a thousand pounds before the road was
improved. After its improvement the
average load was found to be 2.000
pounds, and the time consumed in
hauling the larger load to market was
much reduced.
IDEAS ON ROAD IMPROVEMENT
Speedways, Joy-Ride Trails or High
ways for Pleasure Traffic Not
Wanted by Farmer.
Sanity has overtaken the advo-,
cates of better rural highways. In the
old days the good road advocate
dreamed of nothing less than macad
am, and his visionings rnn often to
brick-paved paths and concrete coun
try lanes. All the rural world rolled
smoothly by over traffic ways that
would cost anywhere from $5,000 to
$15,uuu per mile. That was before
the farmer had really entered into the j
movement and before the small town
merchant, the rural banker, and thf
county seat eities had begun to think
about good roads in terms of dollars
and cents. Twenty years of agitation
has brought us face to face with the
fact that the taxpayer does not want
speedways, joy-rider trails or roads
K.r pleasure traflic, says St. I^ouis Re
public The man on the farm wants
a <) firm, well drained highway that
he can use at any and all seasons of
the year, and he does not want to be
bankrupted or driven to the poor
hou^e in getting it.
Laying Pullets.
Pullets very often are slow at start
ing to lay owing to becoming too fat.
In growing pullets there should be
more nitrogenous and lefts carbo
naceous food given them.
Importance of Movement.
Of the 2,000,000 miles of public
roads in the United States only about
two hundred thousand miles have
been given a hard surface. This
shows the importance of thg good
roads movement.
Poor Highways.
Poor highways lessen the profit of
labor, increase the cost of living, bur
don the enterprise of the people, dull
the morality of our citizenship and
hold down the educational advance
ment of the country.
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