The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-10-25

IOtai ......-.... f,o1 = 30 90
The above total represents th'
mount OF money collected by the rail
Dads operating under the two-cen
are in Oklahoma for the year endini
June 80, 1909, for tickets sold between
points within the state of Oklahoma
lone.
II leaves out OF consideration tn,
Oklahoma portion OF the receipts
Interstate tickets sold or on interstat
traffic handled through Oklahoma o
into Oklahoma from other states.
is elementary that the earnings Of th
roads under a three-eent fare woul'
have been fifty per cent greater tina
under the two-cent fare. Dividing tn
.bove total by two we find the sayin
10 the people OF oklahoma on thi
lass of traffic between points With
heir cwn state for Tie twelve month
ending June 80, 1909, to have bee
s2.406.194.43. The two-cent fare wa
In effect on these railroads within tn
Itate OF Oklahoma for twenty-seye
months. This figure represents a sa,
ag for twelve moBthsl~ This period C
welve months. as stated, was fror
Fune 30, 1908 to June 80, 1909. Els
res cannot be given for the month
preceding June 80. 1908 for the reaso
hat the railroads did not segregate
separate their Oklahoma business prio
70 that date Neither can figures
giyen for the period from June S(
1909 to March ., 1910, when the twt
ent fare provision was set aside, bs
.ause the railroad annual reports cor
aiming these figures have not ye
cen filed. Assuming. however. ths
he saving to the people for the fiftee
months when the two-cent fare was /
fleet for which figures are not avail
Bile, amounted to as much as durin
he twelve months ending June 3
800. which certainly Is a conservativ
iasis for estimate. we are justified !
doubling the saving for the fiscal yea
ending June 30. 1909. and assumin
that the total saving on the two-eer
fare for the twerty-seyen months wa
double that for the twelve months II
dicated. and amounted to s4,Sf2.3 1888,
Combining this passenger saving wit
that represented in freight rates,
Ind the total to be s6,264 ,792f3.
Joe McNeal, republican candidat
-or governor. Is shouting from th
housetops of the state that the peopl
want more business and less polite
The federal injun,tion that knocke
out the Oklahoma state freight an
passenger rates and gave to certai
Industries In this state the busines
conditions that have iorced them
shut down, was secured with the yo
untary assistance of Joe McNeal
affidavit furnished because OF hi
friendship with the railroads and witt
out any legal process requiring sue
expression, Joe AIeNeafs idea c
business conditions that ought 10 prt
vail has resulted In the suspension
operations by brick plants IN the Drlc
manufacturing localities in Oklshom
by flour mills that ought to be doin
an active and profitable business an
would be except for the HOOK iil,dn
ton. and by asphalt mines that ough
TO be furnishing the material for pay
ing Oklahoma streets that the Hoo
injunction and the Aldrich-Canno
tariff are paving with third.rate nj
,terial from South America.
ir To- McNeal's exhortation for NOR.
business and less politics. the answe
OF the people will be that they prefe
the sort OF business they had befog
the Hook Injunction to that whic
McNeal.s affidavit helped to brin.
upon Them 4
But not opIy in connection with tn,
Hook Injunction has Joe sMcNeal gonl
Fout of his way 10 show bis friendlsnes
for the big railroad corporations /,
ORIah6nia, tlss 4"s 'steilse9eo sal1'
II YOU are indicted for an offens,
you go TO your best friend when yo'
want bondsman. So do the raj
roads. Joe McNeal Is on seven bond
approved by the corporation commits
sion, furnished by the railroads to &c
out Of giving the people Of this stat
benefits that the corporation commis
sion says they are entitled to.
One OF these bonds prevented tn
sle 1p,e II t0Kns oa AID CONNECTED Kit
fIhe Santa Fe between Guthrie an