The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-05-04
A MARRIAGE MILL.
q sehsme Started to Entioe Young People
Into Marrying for Pecuniary Profit.

sehsme Started to Entice Young People
into Marrying for Pecuniary Profit.
IPhilsaslphia 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 chartering of which was
recently ventilated in the Press. A later
and more ingenious scheme has just been
developed by lot of State worthless, which
is designed to draw poor but honest and I'M
sophisticated young people of the country
into marrying for pecunisry 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 oficered by the following persons:
William g. Kuser, President; l.. w. Crau-
mer. Vice President; 5. VI. Hummer, Treas
ureri ID. S. Hammaker, Secretary David
Rsuch, General Agent al of this State.
THE OBJECTS AND PLANS
The Association is open to all unmarried
persons, male and female. without regard TO
color, between the ages of ten and seventy
FIVE years. Persons of the above conditions
are eligible to secure a certificate in our As
ISOLATION for either 81 900, $1,000, $1,000,
/ 81 600 or 81. 900 at the following member
ship rates: For 81 900 certificate Sc, for
a $1,000 certificate S12, for q $4,000 certif-
cate SIS, for a $4,000 certificate S24, and for
a $1,000 certificate $40. 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 a
81 900 certificate and 900 members. The
assessment on child ten years Of age is
thirty cents, and 81 for a man between 46
and rs, and proportionately.
NeT CONFINED TO oSE CLASS.
The scheme is not confined to classes of
900 members The assessment on g, 900
certificate will be double the above table,
and on a $1,000 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 as 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
$780, or so much thereof as one assessment
may amount to, less the cost for collection
the third beneficial year the assessment will
be on $50 members, and secures $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
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Der of the Association, the larger your prof
its.
HOW THE NEW THING WORMS.
An agent OF the Company was interviewed
and gave the following idea of the working
of the scheme: All certificates are non
forfeitable-that is to say exchangable for a
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 surrendered
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-
ton you will not have to die for the sake of
: receiving the amount you are insured for.
To help people to happiness and prosperity,
the originators of this scheme will feel
amply rewarded for the trouble and proba-
bic 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; I'VE 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 a policy for
a drug clerk, and l 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 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 new
thing would be popular with girls, and
stated that the Company's agent in Cleve-
land, Ohio, was overwhelmed with business,
and the Company expected to do big bust
ness in Pittsburg and other cities as soor as
! ffices were established.