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1 V XT SON'S WEEKLY 1 Tig 1 JEFFERSONIAN OMf EDITED BY •jl THOS. E. WATSON y Vol. IX. No. 33. TAKING ITS N EDICI NT.. I fe z I I Wo ; I fc OkK <» 1 wtwOlißwT'■> ■ fell ' |J^^AL\BA«M^ s raF // ■ ®-/. ww |>Cfe \4 DRAWN BY GORDON NYE. Comptroller Plant, of Southern Railroad, says unless the system and the people work together there w ill be disaster. The Jeffersonian fully agrees with Mr. Plant. The people must and will have better service. Lolver lares on of the State The fare from Atlanta to LaGrange, Ga., was $2.13 cents, yesterday. It is only $1.42. This is,only one of the thousand of instances noted by the traveler to day when the reduced passenger rates order by the railroad commission of Georgia, in Circular No. 334, went in to effect. Differences from a cent to a half-cent a mile is noticeable in the tariffs on all main lines in the state in consequence. Hundreds of traveling men who us ually leave the cities on Sunday af ternoon in order to get an early slant on Monday morning with their cus- Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, September 5, 1907. tomers, in the country, deferred these trips until this morning, and, in con sequence, there was a noticeable dim inution in the traveling over the state roads yasterday and last night. But it was heavy this morning. Latest advices indicate that all of the roads in the state placed into ef fect the reduced fares as offered. The decision of Judge Shelby, in refusing to order a temporary injunc tion against the commission restrain ing them from putting into operation the proposed rates, acted as a cheek upon the contesting corporations, and it is thought that all will follow the lead of the Atlantic Coast Line and file bills asking for a permanent in junction, after a review of the cause, in the federal courts if the rates or dered arc declared, by these courts, to be unjust. Legal Fight is Expected. It is certain that the mail of the railroad commission this morning will find a protest against the passenger rates, from the Southern Railroad, and it is believed that similar notes from the Seaboard Air Line, the Cen tral of Georgia the Georgia Railroad, the Atlanta and West Point, the Georgia Southern and Florida, and Price Five Cents. the Western and Atlantic will be there, too. It is almost certain that these pro tests will be followed by bills in the federal courts, and a long legal fight will follow. There is this difference between the existing and former procedure in regard to the orders of the commis sion: Now the orders go into effect and the fight is made to stop them. Here tofore the orders were stopped, and the state fought to have them put into effect. (Continued on Page Thirteen.)