The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-08-28

to the end OF term OF 10 years. II he
dies before the end of the term his heirs
get $4,000 no more, no less and his accu-
mulated profits are divided among the
policies Of those in the same class who
pay to the end of the term. The
same rule regarding the prof
its governs in cases where policy
is permitted to lapse. The total amount
paid In fifteen years on the $4,000 at $l5650
per annum is $2,347.50. AT the end of the
tontine term the policy holder has his
choice; either to surrender his policy and
receive its total value in cash, which would
be sS,OO5oo After having had life in
surance of $4,000 for fifteen years, or he
could take paid up policy the amount of
which would be $6,102.00 payable at
death with no further payments to make;
or he could take his profits in cash,
amounting to $l,74750, and continue his
policy of $4,000 by paying annually 1885,
80 less the dividend each year; or he could
purchase lite annuity with his surplus,
the amount of which would be $l5750
which with the annual dividends would be
not less than $2l1.50 or enough to pay the
premium on his $4,000 policy and have a
balance Chat would increase with age of
policy payable to him each year in cash
by the company of $500 thus giving him
a life insurance of $4,000 and $500 a
year in cash as result of paying to the
end of the term on $4,000 fifteen year
tontine in the Equitable of New York
The fate of the banner of the Temper
ance club, which bears the inscription,
"Non-polltical" was again under discussion
at the meeting of the club last night. The
club seems to be divided-obsunatel d.
vided-as to whether said banner shall be
destroyed or continue to adorn the hall and
announce to all who may come there the
important principle which served as one of
the first foundation stones of the institution
that politics should not be mingled with
the clubs action. 1t is known that Prof.
Reynolds laid much stress upon this idea.
He believed that the Temperance club
should seek to gain its object by persuasion
and by making its cause popular among
the drinkers in various ways He believed
that while the liquor sellers were greatly to
blame and did not deserve the respect of
the friends of humanity so long as they re-
NAMED in the business; yet, he thought,
that the proper way,to remedy the evil was
to compel them to stop selling by reforming
the drinkers, and thus withdrawing their
support. Possibly the club stands in dan
ger OF being annihilated if it forces its
principles upon the community through
the ballot box, since already this question
has created internal discussions which
threaten to weaken it, and, IT the old
saying, about "a house divided against
ITSELF etc" is true, may sooner or later
send it into oblivion. 1t is fact tina
ideas can be too strenuously urged and that
thereby the disgust rather than the sym
patty Of people Is aroused. 1t is human
nature to deride the enthusiast, to resist
force and to revolt against those who, being
in power seek by an arbitrary use of
it, to enforce what may be admitted
even by the rebellious, to be beneficial
But on the other hand, it is true that
the past policy of the club
has been more or less a failure, and
that experience has taught that good prin-
ciples must be forced upon public notice in
order TO insure their acceptance. 1t is true
that mild, passive action, Is not calculated
to attract attention or insure rapid success.
In order to give principle its proper i'm
portance in the public mind it must be- to
some extent feared, and show itself to be
powerful. However, the club must know
best what would be to its interest, and we
will not undertake to advise it in the mat
ter.
Probably other cities and towns are in
the same condition that we find Cairo as
regards publishing a newspaper, but we
are led by experience to think and believe
that it has a larger number of people who
think themselves better able to conduct a
paper than any one who has yet tried
and we cannot, therefore, refrain from pub
fishing few extracts from the address of
Chas. G. Fairman, editor of the Emira
Advertiser, made before the New York
Press association. He says: writing is
one thing; editing is anotheE Many OF
the best editors write very lille for their
papers. But they do edit them, and they
do it with high integrity and unyielding
conscience. They know what goes into
their papers, and they equally known what
they keep out. They know their own re-