The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1881-04-23
a schs me Started to Entice Young People
into Marrying for Pecuniary Profit.
TPhiladelphia Pressl

tPhiladelphia Press.l
Devices and schemes to catch the unwary
are not confined to Mutual Benefit Aid So
cieties organized for speculation in human
life, the wholesale chsrtering of which was
recently ventilated in the Press. later
and more ingenious scheme has just been
developed by lot of State worthies, which
is designed to draw poor but honest and un-
sophisticated young people of the country
into marrying for pecuniary profit. The
following account of the scheme is condensed
from tina Pittsburg Commercial Gazette
The Company has been incorporated at Har-
risburg and is known as the American Mu-
tual Aid Association for Unmarried People.
which is officered by the following persons:
William G. Kuser, President; l. w. Crau-
mer, Vice President; S. M. Hummer, Treas
urer; ID. S. Hammaker, Secretary; David
Rauch, General Agent, all of this State.
THE OBJECTS AND PLANS.
The Association is open to all unmarried
persons, male ard female, without regard to
color, between the ages of ten and seventy
five years. Persons of the above conditions
eligible to secure a certificate in our As
sociation for either $1,000, $1,000, $4,000,
81 900 or S., 900 at the following member
ship rates: For 81 900 certificate Sc, for
81, 600 certificate Sl2, for $1,000 certif-
cate $l8. for 1000 certificate SPA, and for
$4,000 certificate $50. All persons must
be members of the Association one year
from date of their certificate before they are
beneficial and any member marrying be.
fore he or she is member one year from
date of their certificate, will forfeit his or
her certificate and claims on the Society.
Marriage assessments are graded according
to age, as set forth in the table, based on
$1,000 certificate and 1000 members. The
assessment Oh child ten years of age is
thirty cents, and So for a man between 46
and rs, and proportionately.
NOT CONFINED TO ONE CLASS.
The scheme is not confined to classes of
1000 members. The assessment on &, 900
certificate will be double the above table,
and on a $4,000 certificate three times, and
so on in the same ratio. The second year,
when members become beneficial. their as
sessment will be based on $50 members, and
they will consequently be entitled to $3.50,
or so much thereof rs one assessment may
amount to, less the cost for collection; the
second beneficial year the assessment will
be based on 500 members and entitled to
may amount to- less the cost for collection.
the third beneficial year the assessment will
be on $50 members, and secures $3.50 less
the cost of collection, and the fourth benef-
cial year the assessment will be on 1000
members and hence entitled to 81 600 less
the cost of collection, but in no case is the
amount to exceed the face of the certificate.
1t will be seen that the younger you become
a member and the longer you are a men,
ber of the Association, the larger your prof
its.
HOW THE NEW THING WORMS.
nagent OF the Company was interviewed
and gave the following idea of the working
of the scheme: "All certificates are nom
for feitable-that is to say exchangable for
certificate of the amount paid by assess
ments, less the annual dues and member
ship fee which will mature according to the
table, provided the certificate is surrenders d
according to its terms, after three annual
payments are made. There are protective
organizations for about every emergency
fire, sickness, death, and numerous other
things-but nothing whatever for the great
est event in human life, marriage, for then
real practical life begins. In this Associa-
tion you will not have to die for the sake Of
IcSOiNhS sho uHiounb you are lnsureu Ior.
To help people to happiness and prosperity,
the originators of this scheme will feel
amply rewarded for the trouble and proba-
BILE criticisms which all new undertakings
are liable to encounter"
" You have paid out none of those large
benefits YETI" was asked.
"Oh, mol" replied the agent; " we have
only been organized short time. 1t will
require year for member to reap its ben
efits. We are doing all the business we can
handle. have just made out policy for
drug clerk. and tell you this scheme is
BIG THING FOR YOUNG MEN
who are working on small salaries and who
see no present way to raise sufficient money
to embark upon the sea of mstrimony in rea-
sonable style. Under policy which 1 have
just made out, young drug clerk has paid
$50, and according to the regulations of the
Company he can step out of the Association
one year from to day with 81 200 cash in his
pocket-provided he marries. The agent
further remarked that he thought the now
thing would be popular with girls, and
stated that the Compsny's agent in Cleve-
land, Ohio, overwhelmed with business,
and the Con-. my expected to do big bust
ness in Pittsburg and other cities rs soor as
fices were established.