Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-01-24

bers. our death rate can be maintained within its
present limits, providing the selections OF risks
ere jadiciously made. In 1879 the annual death
Isl: in 1Ss. eight years. il has only increased
aboat 962. II is conclusive that vita present
log =TeTage age Of ad omission and careful selec'
zion. the Death rate per thousand VIII not increase
bTt -li-lJly above the present rate
!; j bat fair to state that in ail these tables
Kansas takes the lead in low average age of adj
mission, low average age Of entire membership,
low death rate, end in general good mans cement.
For example. in 1873 four Jurisdictions presented
lower death rate per thousand; in lss. our death
rate was ga, the lowest OF any Jurisdiction Of
anne age. The order has now completed its e1st
year, and is more firmly established in the conf
dence Of the people than ever. When the pre-
diction that the structure would at this age
be toriering and ready to fall
Nothing can b. more certain than the general
law Of averages, and the fact will warrant the
sertion that naxium death rate will be reached
within the next ten years, and that it viii, not
coed twelve deaths per annum upon each one
thousand members.
There is but one avenue through which as
sessments viii ever become burdensoms, and
that is through arrest of growth and decrease Of
membership and this will never occur so long as
We can show evidence of good management, which
will result in continuing 10 give protection at
the minimum of expense.
Ifmy array Of statistics have wearied you
must excuse myself by saying that my connection
with the order is such AZ lead me TO trace the re-
lation between cause and effect, and my belief
that we have reached that period in our history
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And now my friends, has the purpose Of this
meeting been ACCOMPLISHED: ion have heard or
will hear the signfcation OF our symbolic letters
c. ii. Il P.-tcharity, hope and protechon) We
have endeavored TO show you that the order offers
and assures yon absolute protection. Life Is un-
certain, and though the end may be long deferred,
death will find us unprepared, though perhaps
now giving promise of long life anu in our pride
and arrogance unmindful OF the future. The
summons may come unanHounced, thou fool,
This night thy soul will be required Of thee
should this summons come, can you bid the mes
senser welcome, confident in the belief that your
wife and little ones are protected from the trials
and dangers incident to pecuniary want and dis
tress so far as 1t has been in your power to have
30 provided, or would you WILDLY see through the
thickening mists the fond wife bending all her
energy in securing for your children the necesi-
ties of life. Your boy Of whom you expected
fittings, forced to renquish his prospects for
an education and TO bare the tender arm and enter
the struggle along with the heart broken mother
Nonr beautiful daughter bufefed about until los
ing faith in mankind only perhaps to become
prey 10 human rultures. This picture has its
reverse. Wife and children return from the Ell
lent city Of the dead and in their loneliness knce
and bind together more firmly the bonds of
affection ard make more sacred the family circle
which, thanks to The provilent care Of the mind
'ul f1'her and husband, has secured the means
which will enable the mother 10 snide safely the
youthful minds until they shine forth in the
brightness and spleEGor Of hoolc womanhoOd and
manhood. Say yon that this protection is now as
sured: How many can be certain OF this: How
many estates to-day If forced TO pass through the
probate coIrt and sacrificed at present values.
would leave more than Il pittance for those left be-
hind:
The certificate which we issue to YOU cannot be
made an article of merchandise and can be made
PAYABLE ONLY to a member of your family or to
some one dependent upon YOU for support and
is x,mpt from administration and all liabilities
against an estate Thus j. placed in the hands
of the mother intact the goodly sum of 5000 at
such time as it is most urgently needed
My own relation to the order can be illustrated