Show IInO DIVISIONS The Tho current number or ot the th Railway AlIe Me notes note with considerable con that tho tine public arc nm being awak IVok awakened n ened coed to tho the necessity of ot according oven event thu railroads a u fair and deal lea leaTho Thu Tho Texas railroad commission has rescinded Its 1111 order for tOI n II 2 cent cont fare mire on Oil the tho Houston Central anti and dis dismissed dismisSed missed a II motion for tor an 1111 order apply applying ing a Y cent fare on all 1111 lines In Texas This tho the Railway Age believe was na dono In response to protests thai poured In from front all parts of at tho the against u the tho reduction hy by h people who realize that the tha war upon tho the roads resulted In retarding tho development I of tho the State In V thin titis It Is noted that I the tho supreme court of o Pennsylvania has u a 1 court decision declaring time tile fern faro law Ill unconstitutional also ubo that a it Judge Jud c McPherson sitting In fed fel federal eral 1111 court nt ot Kansas Kunsa City Mo 10 recent recently ly iy I delivered an nn opinion holding uncoil unconstitutional tho time law of or Missouri that that a deign railway that transferred from tram ft ml 1 state to a it federal court n u suit brought by br a citizen of tho state should forfeit its right to todo tod do 10 d bushiest In tho the state ata te All II those these occurrences oc oo are aro taken ns as a proof that tho the voice of tit justice Is being heard hoard above aboc popular clamor This ruts Is i as all It should be No wrong is II over righted by the tho violation of ot the principles oc ot fair tah play to all are ure entitled to a fair on oil thO tIm In Investment vestment ns liS Is every Investor Their expenses are aro enormous and tho thu greater part of at their earnings are ure distributed to ti millions of at and through thom them to tho the various branches of ot Industry Through the medium of ot time the lines of at transportation the tho commercial life lifo lifeblood lifeblood blood of ot tho the nation Is kept circulating What would this country or any coun cOlln try bo be In this age without a mu tal prosperous railroad system No ono one will defend tho the discrimination thin tion some roads seem seen to tG bo ho guilty of ot against some localities in imi favor of at others nor any uny other shortcomings of at railroad managers such as failure to give adequate service where hero there is Js no competition or om what hut Is still worse neglect In tho time matter of safeguarding the lives of passengers But whon wiman everything Is 19 considered tho the net fact re ye remains mains that both fi eight and passenger ol rates have beer been reduced during the last years yearN to figures that seem low as ns compared to earlier rates also that no locality would exchange the tho poorest railroad m service for tal or the stage coach conch and thu freight team t lm Let wrongs bo ho righted by b legal means but let lot us not forget target to he bo fair oven even in III criticism |