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About The Stayton mail. (Stayton, Marion County, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1915)
I rö o m a m a m is PAYROLL OF Stayton Mai! Votes Count Most in the Premium RATE INCREASE Piano Contest! ï n a s i M j MM G C One year subscription to the Mail--$1.50 2 years subscription to the Mail—$3.00 2000 votes 5000 votes 3 years subscription to the Mail—$4.50 5 years subscription to the MaiI-$7.59 8000 votes 16.000 voles 40.000 votes 10 years subscription to the Mail—$15.00 20 years subscription to the Mail~$25.00 WANTS NO “ DEADHEADS” ON LIST OF EMPLOYES. W r-4 FARMERS’ UNION OFFICIALS THINK RAILROADS ARE EN TITLED 7 0 MORE REVENUE. Product* of Plow and Farmer Wh* Live* at H o rn * Should B* Exempt From Increase. . By Peter Radford. 100.000 votes L ecturer National Farm ers' Union. The recent action of the Interstate Commerce Commission In granting an Increase In freight rates In the eastern classification of territory; the applics- ilon of the roads to state and inter state commissions for an Increase In rates, and the utterances of President Wilson on the subject bring the farm ers of this nation face to face with the problem of an Increase In freight rates. It Is the policy of the Farmers’ Union to meet the Issues affecting the welfare of the farmers squarely and we will do so In this Instance. The transportation facilities of tbs United States are inadequate to ef fectively meet the demands of com merce and particularly in the South and West additional railway mlleag* Is needed to accommodate the move ment of farm products. If In the wl» dom of our Railroad Commissions an increase in freight rates is necessary to bring about an improvement in our transportation service, and an exten sion of our mileage, then an Increase should be granted, and the farmer Is willing to share such proportion of the increaae as Justly belongs to him, but we have some suggestions to make as to the manner In which this In crease shall be levied. Many Subscriptions to the Mail ex pire in January. Now is the tim e to do your soliciting. Get busy and get in the race by getting subscrip tions for the Mail. CONTEST CLOSES WEDNESDAY, FEB. 24 SEVEN BIG PRIZES HEADED BY A $300 PIANO A CALL UPON THE LAW MAKERS TO PREVENT USELESS TAX UPON AGRICULTURE. - ► < \ < ► ( > I ► < > Rates Follow Lines of Least Resist ance. raCjf til L.X.IZ3 LZ/ i-l; 4u««i l J LI -I 1Î..E. BL AIN A M. HAMMER " wENm c l o E V E R Y T H IN G > t FÖP* A LB A N Y. ; L n 3 u M A IM AND BOY OREGON. MATTHIEU’S BILUARD HALL' CIGAR STORE and CONFECTIONERY Is now located in the I. 0. 0. F. Bldg., and You arc assured of a quiet place to spend an hour, and courteous treatment at all times j: l . j ; NOTICE JS HEREBY GIVEN. T i t the iiti<ltr-,gned, Clark J. Sc bvi, In-s been duly appointed as exeeutoi of the estate and last will ar.d testament of Nettie S. Seihel, deceased, by t h e County Court of Manon County, Ore gon, and he has duly qualified : •? ,.-h executor. Then fore, i.ll persons h ving < »ras »gainst stjid oatale are hereby n» tied and required to present the same, duly VcriUed, to the undersigned executor at hi* residence near Sublimity, Marion County, Oregon, within six months from the lirat publication of this notice in the Stayton Mail, said date being the 14th day of January, 1915. Clark J. Seibel, Executor. Earl A. Nott,Attorney for Estate. 2-llx l dl » b ■? YIL. . .« EXECUTOR’S NOTICE rr\ i th el ^ j I I COLLIER'S WEEKLY AND STAYTON *IA!L The management of The Mail hr been waiting for a special p it i . Collier's Weekly, so that theytould ; offer the aame combination as last year via: 12.50 for Mail and Colder?, but no special offer has come, nor ia there any hance at this date; so they have de cided to make an offer of the two p: pera at n price of $3.00. ! Colliers regular price is $2 50, ar.d TRADE M A R K the Mail is $l,.r0 making a total ef$4 O' If you want this wide-awake nation«;' ! weekley in conjunction with your h« m np o ph er paper you can get it nt an advunr,- I $1 50 oyer the price of the Mail, votes on the Co nest goo it! Mail and 300 vote; with Collier.*. Iyou Q U I C K . C E R T A IN . w ant this offer, ni nd the money s t once deadly to the Mail office. a.i the time i ; I ¡ait- ItH A D V F O R IXRTAXT t S K I ed. Those who have already p.id io KK V K R F A IL S . D e n t r o v * s q u i r r e l * , gophers«, p r a i r i e «logs, s a g » | a year's subscription to.the Mu.I •. ad A p p l y e a r l y In 3, n u r w h e n t h e In imiKry - p e s t * a w a k e f r o m W i n t e r ' s s l e e p M o n e y h a r k vance, can get Colliers for the e " It ' t r i fall-. \ \ . , nl I .a I k f o r 25 y e a r * al $1.50. h a s s t o o d e v e r y t e s t , It's crop Inauram -o E. T . M A T T H IE U W O O D-LARK fC * G P O IS a g a i n s t r o d e n t peats. It. w r i t e u*. O N : If y o u r d e a le r h a s n 't Clarke, W oodward Drug Co. I 'l l H T I . A J I U , ORKUOTV. For sale at Beauchamp’s Drug Store S ubscribe F o r T h e M a il The freight rates of the nation bars been built up along lines of least re sistance. The merchant, the manu facturer, the miner, the miller, tho lumberman and the cattleman have had their traffic bureaus thoroughly organized and In many instances they have pursued the railroad without ( rcy and with the powmr of organ- .-.id tonnage they have hammered the life out of the rates and with unre al rained greed they have eaten the vital* out of our transportation system and since we have had railroad com missions, these interests, with skill and cunning, are represented at every hearing- In which their business is involved. The farmer is seldom represented at rate hearings, as his organizations have never had the finances to em ploy counsel to develop his side of the case and, as a result, the products of the" plow bear an unequal burden of the freight expense. A glance at the freight tariffs abundantly proves this assertion. Cotton, the leading agricultural product of the South, al ready bears the highest freight rate of any necessary commodity In com merce, and the rate on agricultural products as a whole Is out of pro portion with that of the products of tho factory and the mine. We offer no schedule of rates, but hope the commission will be able to give the railroad such an Increase In rates as Is necosuary without levying a further toll upon the products of the plow. Th* Instance seems to pre sent an opportunity to the Railroad Commissions to equalize th* rates as between agricultural and other classes of freight without disturbing the rates on staple farm products. What Is a Fair Rate? By Pstar Radford L ecturer N ational F an n e rs' Union The farmer Is the paymaster of Industry and as such he most meet the nation's payroll. When industry pays Its bill It must make a sight draft upon agriculture for the amount, which the farmer is compelled to honor without protesL This check drawn upon agriculture may travel to and fro over the highways of com merce; may build cities; girdle the globe with bands of steel; may search bidden treasures In the earth or traverse the skies, but in the end it will rest upon the soil. No dollar will remain suspended in midair; it is as certain to seek the earth’s surface as an apple that fall# from a tree. When a farmer buys a plow be pays the man who mined the metal, the woodman who felled the tree, the manufacturer who assembled the raw material and shaped it into an ar ticle of usefulness, the railroad that transported It and the dealer who sold him the goods. He pays the wages_ of labor and capital employed In the transaction as well as pays for the tools, machinery, buildings, etc., used in the construction of tbo commodity and the same applies to all articles of use and diet of him self and those engaged in the sub sidiary lines of Industry. There is no payroll in civilization that does not rest upon the back of the farmer. He must pay the bills —all of them. Tbe total value of the nation's annual agricultural products is around 112,000,000,000, and It is safe to esti mate that 95 cents on every dollar goes to meeting the expenses of sub sidiary Industries. The farmer doee not work more than thirty minutes per day for himself; the remaining thirteen hours of the day’s toil be devotes to meeting the payroll of the hired hands of agriculture, such as tbe manufacturer, railroad, commer cial and other servants. Th# Farmer’s Payroll and'H ow He Meets IL The annual payroll of agriculture approximates $12,000,000,000. A por tion of the amount la shifted to for eign countries In exports, but the tot&i payroll of industries working for the farmer divides substantially as follows: Railroads. $1,252,000,000; manufacturers. $4,365,000,000; mining. $655,000,000; banks, $200,000.000; mercantile $3,500,000,000, and a heavy miscellaneous payroll constitutes the remainder. it takes the corn crop, the most valuable in agriculture, which sold last year for $1,692,000,000, to pay off tbe employes of the railroads; the money derived from our annual sales of livestock of approximately $2,000,- 000,060, the yearly cotton crop, valued at $920,000,000; the wheat crop, wnich is worth $610,000,000, and the oat crop, that is worth $140,000,000. are required to meet the annual pay roll of the manufacturers. The money derived from the remaining staple crops is used in meeting the payroll of the bankers, merchants, etc. After these obligations are paid, the farmer has only a few bunches of vegetables, some fruit and poultry which he can sell and call the pro ceeds his own. When the farmer pays off his help he has very little left and to meet these tremendous payrolls be has been forced to mortgage homes, work women In the field and increase the hours of his labor. We are, there fore. compelled to call up«n all In dustries dependent upon the farmers for subsistence to retrench in their expenditures and to cut off all un necessary expenses. This course Is absolutely necessary In order to avoid a reduction in wages, and we want if possible, to retain the present wage scale paid railroad 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 will mention the full crew bill ts We do not know what constitutes a basis for rate making and have never heard of anyone who did claim to know much about It, but If the pros perity of the farm Is a factor to be considered and the railroad commis sion concludes that an Increase in rates is necessary, we would prefer that It come to us through articles of onsumptlon on their journey from ho factory to the farm. We would. ;or example, prefer that the rate c* cogs remain as at present and the rate on meat bear Ihe Increase, for uy farmer can then avoid the burden y raising his own meat, and n farm er who will not try to raise his own meat ought to be penalized. Wo think the rate on coal and brick can much better bear an increase than the rate on cotton and flour. We would prefer that the rate on plows remain the same, and machinery, pianos and such articles as the poor* For Sale at Brown’s Garage. An 8- or farmer cannot hope to possess bear ' pass. 60 h.p. Thomas, good a9 new, the burden of Increase. The increase in rates should be so 1 just overhauled except tires and paint, arranged that the farmer who lives ' will remodel into truck if wanted. Call in and see it. C. E. brown. nt home will bear no part of the bur den, but let the farmer who boards in other states and countries and who reed* his stock in ft. reign lands, Old Newspapers— pay the price of his folly. I Big bundle for 10c at th« Mail office. BIG CAR illustrating the « tin r* * r of unness*. •ary expenses to which we refer Union Opposes "Full Craw” Bill. Tbs Texas Fanners' Union regis tered Its opposition to this character of legislation at the last annual meet ing held In F rt Worth Tex., August i, T 11. by rest.'..Hr- ich we quote, as follows; "The matter of prime importance to the farmers of this stats Is an ade quate and efficient marketing ayatem; and we recognize that such a ayatem Is Impossible without adequate rail* road facilities, embracing the greatest «mount of service at the least po* slble cost We further recognize that tbe farmers and producers In the end >ay approximately 96 per cent of the expenses of operating the railroads. • nd It Is therefore to the Interest of he producers that ths expenses of he common carriers be as small as Is possible, consistent with good ser vice and safety. We, therefore, call ipon our lawmakers, courts and iurles to bear the foregoing facts in mind when dealing with the common carriers of this state, and we do eipe- cialiy reaffirm tbe declarations of ths last annual convention of our State Union, opposing the passage of the so-called ‘full-crew’ bill before tbe thirty-third legislature of Texas " Tbe farmers of Missouri in tbe 1 election, by an overwhelming jorlty, swept this law off the statute book of that state, and it should come off of all statute books where It appears and no legislature of th u nation should pass such a law or similar legislation which requires un necessary expenditures. The same rule applies to all regu latory measures which Increase the expenses of industry without giving corresponding benefits to the public. There Is ofttlmes 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 the men who bow their backs to the summer's tun to meet tbe payroll, but these committees, while making a record for themsel*», rub tbe skin off the thoulders of the farmer by urging the legislature to lay another burden upon his heavy lead and under the lash of "be it enacted” goad him on to pull and surge at the traces of civil ization, no matter how he may sweat, foam and gall at the task. When legislatures "cut a melon" for labor they hand the farmer a lemon. The farmers of the United States are not financially able to carry “dead heads’' on their payrolls. Our own hired hands are not paid cnless we have something for them to do and we are not willing to carry the hired help of dependent industries unless there is work for them. We must therefore insist upon the most rigid economy. Legislative House-Cleaning Needed. While the war Is on and there Is a lull In business, we want all legisla tive bodies to take an Inventory of 1 the statute books and wipe off all extravagant and useless laws. A good ; house-cleaning 13 needed and econo mles can be instituted here and th-re that will patch the clothes of Indigent children, rest tired mothers and lift mortgages from despondent homes. Unnecessary workmen taken off and useless expenses chopped down all along the line will add to the pr-is- perity of the farmer and encoun.^e him In his mighty effort to feed uni clothe the world If any of these industries have sur plus employes we can use them on the farm. We have no regular schedub of wages, but we pay good farm hands on an average of $1 f.l per day of thirteen hours when they board themselves; work usually runs about nine months of the year and the three months dead time, they can do the chores for their board. If they prefer to farm on their own -account, there are more than 14,000,000.mid acres of idle land on the earth's sur face awaiting the magic touch of the plow. The compensation Is easily ob tainable from Federal Agricultural Department statistics. Tho total average annual sales of a farm In the continental United States amounts to $316.00; the cost of operation ts $340.00; leaving the farmer $176 pur annum to live on and educate his family. There is no occasion for tbe le.;is- .atures making a iwisltlon for surplus employes of inddstry. Let them come "back to. the soil” and 3hare with us the prosperity of the farm. When honesty Is merely a go< policy It Is a poor virtue. Lazy farmers are Just as useless r.a dead ones and take up more room. When the soul communes with the spirit of nature the back to the farm movement prevails. There are two kinds of farmer*. One tries to take all the advice ns hears and the other won't take any at alL BUY A HOME Are you thinking of moving to lown? 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