American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-05-22

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time and again written articles
praising home enterprises and home
institutions, and we have ever done
this with feelings of deep satisfac
tion and IA par,iOnable degree of
pride that Mobile and Alabama pos
seSsed citizen to whom we could
point and say, with Cornelia of old,
'These are our jewels" While
such men are among us there is
little fear of our taking a down
grade and going backwards on
the contrary, every mention we
make of these matters is fresh proof
of a live bls SinesS spirit and no les
SEEMING OF energy among our people.
There is one institution, a brig Int
particular star in the galaxy of Ala
bama's fixed constitutions, which
we have ever writ Ell of i'm terms of
warnItSt pHdi L not brcIu,e il Is
cur business and to our interest to
do so, but because we are proud of
it +; because we desire to hold it up
before the whole world as an evil
dence of what energy and integrity
can accomplish in u short space of
time We refer to the Mobile Life
Insurance Company, now scarcely
four years old, and standing in the
front rank of Southern institution.
We particular y desire to direct at
tentiOn of the entire community to
this Company at the present time,
when Northern companies having
sucked the blood of our people with
large premiums and small policies,
have determined, finding their enor-
nous receipts falling off somewhat.
to withdraw their agencies and
transfer their insurance to other
companies. Without pausing to
enquire INTO the justice or right #
sucn Il cOurSe--a few words would
prove that they have not Il shadow
of claim for so doing-we wish to
say something about Life Insurance
in geuerel, and the Mobile Life in
particular. Superst .tiOus persons
there are who will not insure their
lives, declaring that it is placing a
pre- mium on death the absurdness
of this is SD plain as to need no ar
gument from us to prove il. The
uncertainty OF life is auotber self
evident prppOSIlIOn, aud while a
admit its truth very many refuse to
provide Tor the contingency la n
material poi 1t. Take for example
ii man with a large flmily of chill
dren none of them are old enough
10 earn ii livelihood what is to be
their portion, and that of their
mother, in case the husband and
father, the sole prop and support of
the household, is suddenly taken
away9 Reader. have you ever
looked at the subject i'll this light
The appeal of IA mother, wife OF
children for some provision against
the de.a b of sou, husband or fithr.
goes straight TO the heat of every
man, and carries deep sealed Con
viction with it. In the event ii
your demise Lite polio, secures to
the dear ones dependent Oh you Il
value equivalent to that winch
You would have given them had you
lived. Ii you are a single man II
Lite policy lie the ce5y best invest
meut you can make. 1t is negOtia
BILE as Bauk paper and isas good as
gold. By securing policy on the
non forteitIng and endowment plan
you will provide for your own indie
pendence at an ii re when ease an
comfort are prime necessities. W.
might go Oh enumerating adyaht.s
ges to he gained by life insurance,
but the foregoing will BE- sufficient.
The Mobile Life issues policies on
on all approved plans, and with
capital of over half II million, lnves-
led III undoubted securities, no fe r
need be entertained of weakness or
inability to pay losses. Its business
eX ends throughout the South, aud
during the year ending January LIST
1875, its new policies exceeded, i'll
and amount, those Of any
other Southern company, with pos
sibly one exception. And in clos
ing this article, let us again remind
you that tomorrow it may be too
late you may be the victim of Iii
lease; go therefore at once to the
agent of the Mobile Life and take
Out a policy on your life. You will
never regret having done so; II
will cost you bat a irIt1ing sam an
nualIy, AMI whether YOU be Il mar
lied man or an cd bachelor, the re-
suit that will accrue c,tnuot be other
wise than beneficial i'll the highest
degree. Should panic come, by
having your lie Insured in this
sterling company You have "a meals
1T hand by which you can realize
Al amount of money almost equal
10 the face OF the policy. In an
hundred other ways is policy in
,he Mobile Life the means of secur-
ng not only the necessaries OF life,
out that other essential to a comfo:-
able old age, a conscience free