Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1918 — NEW PASSENGER RATES GO IN EFFECT JUNE 10TH [ARTICLE]

NEW PASSENGER RATES GO IN EFFECT JUNE 10TH

The railroad offices have received notice of the new traiff of passenger rates which will ,go into effect June 10th. The new rates are simply an increase of one a mile. The old rate was two cents plus the war tax. The comparison of cost of tickets shows that a former fifty cent ticket now costs seventy-five cents plus the war tax. This will have a Strong tendency to creat a public opinion in opposition to government ownership of railroads. New freight rates are to go into effect June 25th at a general increase of 25 per cent.