The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-05-21
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resources of the South.
| 2nd-The permanent Investments Of
the Piedmont and Arlington are made
only on frat bond and to half tue val
ne Of The property mortgaged.
3rd-A very large portion of the
profits of this Company epure to pol
icy holders. Last year it declared and
assigned dividend IF 10 Qorty) per
cent on the OF binary Life Plan.
4lh-The business of this Company
has been conducted with SO much skill
and energy that, although now but
three years and one month old, we
have issued near 10000 policiesl
During last year, the third Of our
existence, the business of the Pied
mont aud Arlington was exceeded by
only three of eighty four American
companies, whose sworn statements
have been tabuIated and published.
Last year We issued near 5000 pol
icies, ard insured TO the amount Of
near (29) twenty-nine millions! 49,
455 1924!
5th. The latest published statements
show that the average Of Losses in
American Companies were for that
wear. one loss to every C54) one hun
drcd aud fifty four Policies in force. -
In our Company the losses were one
IN every (3l3) three Kindred and ,hir-
teen Policies. This ia justly attribu-
ia bic in great measure to the careful
conduct Of our agents in accepting
risks.
In the Louisiana Branch Agency
which! has now been operating over two
years, and has registered about (7OO)
seven hundred Policies. but one single
loss has ever occurred from disease.
9th. No Company has been more
prompt than ours, in paying for the
losses it has sustained. And I believe
the people Of Louisiana and Arkansas,
may feel assured that confidence re-
posed in US, will not he abused.
TO the Agents of other Companies,
now doing business in Louisiana and
Arkansas, many of whom were our
and friends during the late
war, we say that we desire that our
business, shall be carried on fairly and
AMI in no spirit of dis
arrangement of other competing Com
panies. l feel that the Company l
can stand the test Of any
sot of scrutiny into its condition, aud
its opera tons. aud that Southern Peo-
pie will feel natural and just prefer.
encc for it.
Therefore enjoin it. npon all who
US. that no dispara2ement Of
any other Life Insurance COMPANY will
increase our business. while it will in
evitably make enemies for themselves
and our Company, impede their own
success, create distrust Of the benefi
c,ence of Life Insurance, and damage
its whole business and finally do di
RECT injury 10 many Of our most honor
ed countrymen and friends and com
radcs. who because Of their noble con
duct aud sacrifices during the late war.
are now earning their living in the
service of Life Insurance Companies OF
every part Of the Continent.
The policy of our Company has been
to lend on bond and mortgage in every
State in when we have Agencies, SO
much Of the surplus funds, available
for such investments, as may be derived
from the premiums earned in that State.
To insure the judicious investment Of
all such loans, to extend informa ton
d bout the Company-and promote It's
best interests Board IF Trustees
will be organized, whose functions and
will be explained to them by
he General Agent in charge OF each
State or District.
DABNEY Fl. MAURY, I
GENERAL AGENT.