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■ • Jhtersonian. Vol. 11. ife»fM wqaf IB U=> TREASURY l'i - wsJ/ ®a. ■ lj ' jOLIW iiiiL >/ V y \ L ‘<L<aKr - - 6?e c£ p Jf. \.. -*- will! <= z xELMOHT / *' u /W jJB ( 3^ r \ <■«£. ° ° i 7WMW. m— w - fSO z ag--W7M L W IO ~—~~ — 1 W " 71 >s x w&- a rn'i ...sfe. XEiMwBWMk. •wffif? —y 4 \w// jfn - A ijh -ijj'■.>;'\v jx WKr p - / n "'"-' "' - ; -T W) |T LAW—TURNING OVER | X; |77/£ PUBLIC FUNDS TO I - J THE NAT/OH AL BANKERS V f • / Wk < yAw/TH-OUT /NTPEST. I. ■ " fffX. ' Depelv’s First Speech in Congress After His Exposure and Disgrace. Railroads'Ulvned by the People: Maybe your breakfast didn’t agree with you this morning. Forget it! Ten to one, that note is coming due next week. Don’t worry! Perhaps you got a letter from the man who owes you, putting off set tling day for another month. Cheer up! , Perchance you are cast down be cause cotton won’t go up. Cut It out! In a word, throw dull care to the winds, side-step your troubles, put the lid on your grouch, and come with me to the upper realms of unrestrained For I have a message for you that will make a “come to my party” card look like a summons for jury duty. Now, “Listen, my children and you shall hear” —not the midnight ride of Pftul Revere — A T'lelvspaper Debated to the Adbocacy of the Jeffersonian Theory of Gobernment. Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, March 7, 1907. /. H. REESE, Associate Editor Tallahassee (Ela.) Sun. But a trumpet call to liberty, loud er and clearer than the boldest blown by Wallace, among Scotland’s crags, and sweeter than the tunefulest lay ever played on fairest planes by Apol lo in her merriest mood. The supreme court of Florida has declared that the right of the people of Florida to safe and prompt trans portation of all commodities offered to railroads, is superior to the right of the railroads to declare dividends. So fair a picture as this deserves to be viewed on all sides. Let’s look at it again. In the opinion handed down last week, in the A. C. L. mandamus case the supreme court said: “No matter that a dividend is never paid, that the private investment is sunk and worthless, that the interest upon Its bonds is not met, and that all Its creditors go unpaid, every dol lar of its earnings must nevertheless be applied to keep up its maximum efficiency, as required by the political power in the law which created it to neglect of the smallest of these duties in which the community is interested will be enforced by the public writ of mandamus.” And in order that there should be no lingering doubt to lay its bony hand on the outward manifestation of the exuberance of the joy that Alls our souls to bursting, the honorable court also said: “The service rendered by a com mon carrier directly and vitally af fects the public. To have such serv ice properly rendered is a beneficial right which the public is entitled to en joy. If the service is not properly ren dered it causes loss and inconvenience to the public, and perhaps endangers the lives and property of all those to whom it is extended; therefore, it is a fundamental duty of the state to rig- The Corporations that Manage Them are the Trustees for the 'Real Olvners of Them idly require a proper rendering of this useful public service.” Take that into the far corners of your inner consciousness, let it soak In, and then take it out and hold it in your hand and squeeze down on it. The railroads bound to keep their roadbeds in first class condition, and a writ of mandamus will make them do it, or give up the franchise they hold by gift from the people. Please do not miss any of the rare and tender and succulent bits of this menu a la Fourth of July, which our very honorable supreme court has prepared for our soul’s feasting. Here’s another: “The road, once constructed, is, in stanter, and by mere force of the grant and law, embodied in the gov ernmental agencies of the state and dedicated to public use. All and sin gular its cars, engines, rights of way (Continued on Page 13.) No. 7.