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Show AStlT LGK$ 'THL itil OR WASHINGTON. Aug 12 lsla Fol- lott to run as a third party candidate after all? From a telegram Just received re-ceived here it looka as If the answer might be yes. The wire comes from Mi htg&n and re uls "Liberty party successt ully launched In Michigan tonight. to-night. Petitions being filed. Funds raised. Committees appointed. State-convention State-convention will be held soon and formal for-mal organization completed. People here cnthuslnJrtic " All of which appears to mean that the FOrty-Elghtere have perjuadeel La Follette to rm us a "Liberal party" candidate anyhow. Which m;iy mean that the Farmer-i-tbor party candidate, Parley P. Chrlstensen. will withdraw. Shortly fler his nomination In iiic.igo Chrls-tensen Chrls-tensen said he would withdraw if La Follette could be Induced to enter the race. A lemon between the Jaws of a lemon lem-on squeezer yields a liberal amount of Juice to the first firm squeeze. The Juice is there and it doesn't take much pressure to bring It out. As the pressure increases' the Juice does not increase in proportion a very hard SCXUeese produces only a moderate s. mount of juke and after while, the Juice stops flowing except foY a few draggling tr'.ckl B ' It's the Sit me way with raiding transportation trans-portation rates freight and passenger railways and traction companies. The first vigorous increase In rates squeezes out a considerable revenue. But us the rates are sharply Increased In-creased the income is not Increased in proportion. In fact, a point is suon reached where there is no increase and uftcr that the revenue falls off. The rate becomes "prohibitive." The' pussenger If it be a street car company com-pany walks to save the eight cents Or if It be i railway company the traveler stays at home, or confines his trips to bare necessity. The Jobber takes his salesman off the road and does business by mail: The freight seeks a local market ot gets itself distributed by automobile automo-bile trucks Or it may even rot on the ground or lie In a warehouse unused. No matter bow hard a squeezed lemon is sejueezed it will not give Juice.1 The other end of this proposition Is I Illustrated by the excursion. Speci.il lew rates are made largo extra equipment equip-ment Is brought into use and by carrying car-rying a thousand persons ior half the rale, the company makes as much money as it would m;ike by carrying tOu people for double the rate "and In the second Illustration, It has given service which after all, Is one of tho purpyses for which such concerns exist ex-ist Yes, Mr. Ultimate Consumer, you arc the lemon. |