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111 ill < I] Vol. 11. X 1 ;»s»■ $ . ■. ... . , JgFT // . ■^zYY' 1 " * ■’**? *--ZZ< - ■ C “Y /r Y - r /Y^Y > - - • ’ rt ' I--, >y< : sF 7 -■ ' 3 -s ■■’ ®Sw£<’ Yzt*. W a.-. - Wz \ y d wisH^Tyso ll ™ *’-i ■ wt zWHMm j Wf X&m YWll ■® e ' ■■™ © 7 y' ■' ' X/^ 7 ' y>- - a r~\— Y y • • \ J O sT DRAWN BY GORDON NY$» . 3 V iv ? h f » * u y '[We ‘Bend Slavishly Beneath the Yoke the North has Fastened Upon our Necks." ' . >1 {See Editorial Page Eight.) TWO-CENT TAKE WILL SE TIDIED Kansas City, Mo., June 17. —The Migfeouri two-cent passenger act will go into effect at 6 a. m. on Wed nesday next, and be given a thrcje month’s trial. If, at “the end of that time, it is found to be unremunera tive, its discontinuance can then be brought into the courts by the rail roads. The slate officials are temporarily enjoined from enforcing the maximum freight rate law, and this case will be argued later in the federal court. yjMSON’S \vfJ / Xj r y \ JEFFERSONIAN EDITED BY -' THOS. E. WASSON . - « * * • < # HMJ , Atlanta, Ga , ThuMday June 27, 1907. Missouri Will Have Cheap 'Rates for Three Months.' Trial for Two-Cent Rate. Judge Smith MePberson, in the United States District Court here this afternoon, af.er handing down an opinion maintaining the court’s juris diction in the premises, ordered the promulgation of the above staled facts,, which had been agreed to by the Attorneys for the state and the eighteen Missouri railroads involved. The court in its decision has suggest (d that the two-cent fare should be first given a practical trial before in- preventing its enforcement be considered. Attorney General Hadley said this afternoon regarding the two-cent bill: “If, at the end of three months the railroads want to litigate the rea sonableness of these rates, the ques tion of the jurisdiction of the state and federal courts to determine the question will be fought out and the state has lost none of its rights and advantages. “The injunction suits that I have brought against the railroad compa nies on the passenger rates in the state courts will stand. “I fed that the order made is both a moral and a commercial victory for the state. 19 •, No. 23.