Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1905 — A SPECIES OF EXTORTION. [ARTICLE]

A SPECIES OF EXTORTION.

There is one system of “hold-up” in Rensselaer that ought to be discontinued or broken up, and that is the buss rate to and from St. Joseph’s College. The distance is about one mile and the road is always in good condition. When there were two bussmen here the rate used to be 25 cents for the round trip. JSow, with one man controlling the whole thing, it is 25 cents each way, or 50 cents for the round trip. At Monday night’s entertainment at the college there were two full buss loads, twelve people in each, packed in like sardines in a box, and the round trips, which did not take over an hours time, brought the buss owner sl2. One don’t mind paying a reasonable price for a thing, but such a system of extortion as this is simply an age,and it would seem that the' college people ought to be interested in breaking it up. See Murray’s big sale ad pn another page.