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ma>Pacific International Exposition,
San Francisco
THIS photograph showa the Interior of the palace eroctMl by the king of faraway t>lam at the Panama racillc Intomntlonal Kxposltlon in San rraiirl.Hco. In this palace priceless Orieutal tr»'a.''iir(>s are shown. The palace \n an exact duplicate of the palace In the Uoyal Gardens In 81am and wa.s carved out of ebony, set up in Slam aud thou taken apart and brought to San Francisco In kntK'ked down shape.
Famous Statehouse Reproduced at^the Panama- Pacific International Exposition
T'I IS photograph shows the great .MHSHnchusotts huilding, Panama-I'a- clflc InteriiHtlonal Ex[>osItlon, Snn Francisco. The building repro¬ duces the famous statehouse in Boston. Thousands of visitors crowd ll) this structure so intimately associated with the early history of the Lulled States.
OUR PUBLIC FORUM
II—L. E. Johnson
On Two-Cent Passenger Rates
C, A. BTDEB, Looal Commercial Manager.
26 Sovtti Orove Street
FREBPOBT, L. L
The farmers of this nation are vitally interested In railroad rates and equity be¬ tween passenger and freight rates is especially im¬ portant to the man who foUowe the plow for the farmer travels very little but he is a heavy con¬ tributor to the freight revenues. Some of the states have a two ceiU passenger rate and whatever loss Is Incurred Is recov¬ ered through freight revenue. The jus¬ tice of such a procedure was recently passed upon by the Supreme Court of West Virginia and the decision is 80 far-reaching that we have asked L. E. Johnson, president of the Nor¬ folk and Western Railway whose road contested the case to briefly review the suit. Mr. Johnson said in part:
"Some ten years ago, passenger fares were fixed by the legislatures of a large number of states at two cents a mile. As a ba^Is for such economic legislation, no examination was made of the cost of doing the business so regulated, nor was any ^tention given to the fact whether such a rato would yield to the rail¬ way companies an adequate or any net return upon the capital Invested in conducting this class of business.
"Such a law was passed in WeBt Virginia in 1907. The Norfolk aiKi Western Railway Company put the rate into effect and maintained it for two years. Its accounting during these two years showed that two centa a mile per passenger barely paid the out-of-pocket cost ami noth¬ ing waa left to pay any return on capital Invested. It sought relief from tha courts. Expert accountants for
both the State and the Railway Com¬ pany testified that the claims of the railroad were sustained by the facts. Two cents did not pay the cost of carrying a passenger a mile. The State, however, contended that the railroad was earning enough surplus on its state freight business to give a fair return upon the capital used Id Its passenger as well as its freight business. For the purposes of the case, the railroad did not deny this, but held to its contention that the State could not segregate its pas¬ senger business for rate flxing with¬ out allowing a rate that would be sufilcient tovpay the cost of doing business and enough to give some return upon the capital invested in doing tho business regulated. This was the issue presented to the Su¬ preme Court. Its decision responds to the judgment of the fair-minded sentiment of tho country. The Su¬ preme Court says that, even though a railroad earns a surplus on a par¬ ticular commodity by charging rea¬ sonable rates, that affords no reason for compelling It to haul another's person or property for less than cost The surplus from a reasonable rate properly belongs to the railway com¬ pany. If the surplus Is earned from an unreasonable rate then that rate should be reduced. The State may not even up by requiring the railroad to carry other traffic for nothing or for less than cost.
The decision is a wholesome one and demonstrates that the ordinary rules of fair dealing apply to railway companies. The fact that one makes a surplus on his wheat crop would never be urged as a reason for com¬ pelling him to sell his cotton at less than cost. It would not satisfy the man who wanted bread to be told that its high price enabled the cotton manufacturer to get bis raw product for less than cost In this case the conrt reaffirmed the homely maxim that each tub must stand upon Its own bottom."
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