Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-08-27
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EAST PORTLAND, Or. Aus. "A, 1855.
EDfTeE fosT-lSTKLLIsExcER:
AZ your Issue OF August I'D appears an
article headed An Insursccss Fra1d =
Snlcs IN Justice 70 our many members
Nitnia the vide range of your circuia
non, feel called upou To answer. Tne
Article As II stands. without name and
date. should be proof enough to the or
olnary reader Of its 1neenuiueness. and
70 one regularly 10 the insurance busi-
ness the ear marks of an uuscropuIoas
agent OF some monopoly Insurance. com
Papy is piainly visible. Nv rsason for
asserting this arises from the fact of the
Information sought for by the alleged
Newcastle member being applied for 10
the self styled Coasf Regsese. a thing NOT
read and scarcely known outside Of
monopoly insurance rings. It is an in
stitution simply which is subsidized and
run IN the interests Of insurance mo.
nopolies and conpaets, and its main
eoJecs 10 life is '' Whippar iz- for the
Pacific Coast Compact of Fire Under
writer's to lash the backs of legitimate
non com pact companies Who attempt to
do square business With the public.
It's Other obisct is to throw filth upon
every life aud accident association Of a
humane nature whish gives the poor OF
our land an equal enausa with the rich
20 protect themselves and families. In
the face and eyes of ths large amount
q claims paid By the Great Western
Autuh Accident Association In the past
year 70 tue Northwess, is 10 rldiculoasly
absurd fer the editor of thar decrepid old |
gossip 70 assert thag W. are a humbue. |
There sle many men on Puget Sound |
acquainted With our associa- |
ton, and its directors and officers, to |
allow their friends who are rot ac |
qualnted with as to believe such false |
hoods. Il A. W. Tabor, W. A. II. Love |
land. Frederick Stunhaar, Casirniri Ba. |
rella and others of our officers and trus- |
tees, are not humbugs nor bilks, bat are |
known iE the world as men of business
Integrity, and are respected most by /
those who personally know them. As
Tar as the ioancial standing of those |
parties Is concerned IL Is too we'll known /
fer reproduction here, bat we feel safe
Ia saying that the editor of the Coast
BIdckndfler, with all the donations he
has received from his monopoly ring,
ooald not produce the whsrevithal to
purchase the shadoS of the poorest.
The fact of our net being in bad repute
anyShsre Is proven 10y his assertion
that We are IN bad repute every where.
The fact OF our good reputation in the
at large IS the sole cause of
The vindicfiveness of the high priced
concerns and their foul
expaneDts. As regards the
private history OF the San Francisco
agent, his bus ness transactions with
the sign painter. etc, We will not dis
sass, as It is irrelevant to the pOint at
issue. IL might all be true, and still
nos reflect upon the association in the
least. We might go farther-way into
his boyh0od-and Had where said agent
had robbed a watermelon patch, and
thereby ooademn tse institution he rep
resents. All such arguments are only
weapons to force blaokmail upon the
IRnorsnt, and Is only res0rted to by un-
derRround journalists like the one in
question. 10 his assertion that the
banks In San Francisco will not cash
our drafts, ! am inclined to give the
lie, and my reason for doing
80 is this: We have banks Ia Portland
that We believe TO be as fully alive TO
the interests Of their vaults as those in
san Francisco, and 10 be manipulated
by men equally saRacious. Lsdd d
lilton cashed the draft that paid our
tirst claim IN Oregon over year ago,
and did it unhesitatingly, before We
bad fifty members IN the whole North
west, and from that time to the present,
The same tirm has dashed dozens of our
drafts, aiways on sight and no questions
asked. The Oregon City Bank. the
vaneoayer Bank aud the Merchants
Of Tacona, have all dashed
)ur paper, and are ready and willing TO
10 50 at any time. Your own banks at
seattle will do IL. In fact don't be-
ieve there is a bank ON the Pacific
Coast or in the United States that would
iefnse TO do 1t. In conclusion allow me
10 say that tar and feathers awaken no
IerrCr in the man who feels that he has
iealt justly with his fellow man, and
EEL sure that on my next annual visit
10 the Sound country all the victims"
'eferred TO will extend friendly hand,
md those who have kept their policies
u force will be 20 we'll satisfied that
hey will influence others to become VIC
imized in tho same way. In place Of
he tar and feathers | would suggest
hat every laborIng man on Puget
sound provides hiIcsaif with a good
,aVhide aud use il without mercy upon
III lying tramps connected with monop-
,ly institutions, whose only aim Is TO
raduce and vilify our low rate working.
mems Insurance associations, that their
,wn pockets and the ecffers of their
nigh priced concerns may grow at your
.xpense. JoHN W. gibson.
General Agent FOR the Great Western
Mutual Accident Association. Residence
md Office Fifth street, between + aud
D, East Portland, Or. z. o. Box 302.