Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-04-19
UNIQUE REPORT,

NAobu huuubi luNNtuuCo. fopOKb uho uoDu
ssceived from the statey PriAtef. Com
missioner Wilder IN his introductory
says: ka.,kA AZ IA,
&c has been IN providence Of mature. !"
saith the lsrahhin Pllpay/ speaking OF the
oriental cat, "to give TO this creature nine
dives Instead OF one" This record was made
On the very dawn and infancy Of the race OF
cats. IL the history OF the Kansas cats In
thls series OF reporis seems somewhat long,
repetitious and tiresome, the indulgent
reader will bear In mind this ancient saw
relative TO line longevity, and will brace
up when he remembers that, although boz
gus Insurance company has as many lives
as cat, yet Il liveth not forever; Il may
and surely will die when the nine lives arc
ended; and moreover II can be killed.
The work OF clearing the State OF fraudu.
lent insurance companies was begun nearly
three years ago, and the Job is nearly
finished. IL has been very unpleasant one.
Every company put an end to has had In
terested friends. persons drawing salaries,
60 defend II and assall me. They have
spared no eplthets; nothing that was false
and dirty and vile. This was expected and
no comp amt Is made. The danger was In
making the burden to the department
greater than Il could bear and thus breaking
G down. The months have passed, calumny
and people have sustained the department
and the bogus companies are dead.
Every wildcat company In Kansas has been
organ 'zcd by outsiders; by professional in
aurance crooks and lawbreakers who came
here to ork this field. The insurance crook
% very sharp man; he knows every trick
OF the tr de. One OF his favorlte sayings
for the past three years has been that the
Superintendent didn't know any thing about
n. 81 N2t.N a,
Ia this. But technical insurance knowledge
was not the great need of Kansas just then
We needed Inspector Byrncs The crotk
dresses well and makes favor
able Impression. He selects his town
and makes the acquaintance OF
Influential men; ropes them into his com.
pany far enough TO yet a charter and organ.
liz ation. But the company consists of these
new corners, one or two crooks. They secure
the insurance, lie TO the department and
pocket the cash receipts. The honest direct.
ors, whose names have been used to secure
business, having no control whatever over
the company. keep dropping out The an
nual meetings are held by the crooks; they
eicct the officers; they a z their own salaries.
Now they have things Just rs they want
chem. In their advertising they continue to
use the names OF good men rs their direct
.ors; these are also displayed before the
ueSt stature Wnen tue croOks ure OuyiHS
votes.
After a lengthy review of events
prior and subsequent to the closing Of
tho Topeka and Kansas Home insur-
ancc companies, the Commissioner con-
tinues, referring to the officers Of those
concerns:
This Is a long story to be told of one set OF
thieves. II Is tod rs warning The record
IL needed In the archives. Kansas has been
q safe field for insurance pmps. Every va
rieiy of fraudulent insurance has reveled
here. The tax levied on our people has
been a heavy one The home burns; the
destitute owner RECEIVERS no insurance. al
though has paid for 1t. The head OF the
family dies; he has paid for insurance, but
mis- widow and children get nothing. HanI.
ing to trees and lamp posts would be none
600 severe run ishment for many a rascal
who has robbed Gur people. To meet these
men, to listen to their falsehoods, to know
their work. may cause the most serene dis
cipie of sweetness and light to lose his
serenity. and to make official reports that
are wanting In dignity.
Three years Of contest with outlaw insur-
ancc men and companies are drawing near
GO q peaceful close. over the corpses OF
companies, the dead bodies OF presidents
and secretaries, the fugitive forms OF feet
ing frauds making fast time out OF our be-
q we'd State, one Is already able to catch the
first bright light OF rosy fingered Aurora,
daughter OF Dawn, as she gladdens the hill.
sides along the Missouri, the Marals des
Cygnes and Marmaton, and joyful promises
10 battle every mound and valley OF kindly
kansas In the glorious rffulgeRce OF midday
suai ght Let the glad girl come In! No
wild animals remain here to disturb her
footsteps !; II her chariot burns on the journey,
the last spoke in the wheels will be
paid for by solvent, authorized companies;
companies that have been through Chicago,
twice through Boston, through Lynn and
Seattle and Spokane and paid every dollar
a los. The young WON N will hear harpy
hat pa ser hiss as he flies over New York
but will not walt to respond to Assessment
No. 1893" She will save her best sunshine
Cor Kan sas, where trinity OF law. Supreme
Court and supervision guards the itzen
from the alluring hallucination that one
dollar fee pays for a thousand dollar policy
--pays Il sure and pays II quick.
Charles IX.-and Vltelllus before him
vnade the cold remark: "The body OF a
dead enemy always smells WELL" When We
call 20 mind the men, women and children
robbed OF many thousands by insurance
thieves In Kansas, we do not stop to shed
Gears over the fallen frauds. Nothing so
presence here for many year has left so
many ruined homes that neither laws nor
officers will ever permit their return. 80
pest In human form has so wronged and
robbed our 8; ate as the Insurance. fend In
disaster aud In death the dancing devil has
been present One OF them testified In court
Gn Topeka last February: 81 can get busl.
mess for a C mpany that has no assets."
And he had often done so. He was the pres
'Ident OF Topeka wildcat
Whelps who have no moral or political
character were deeply grleved because last
years. report lacked dignity. Hynes, Hack
s0eY, Fuller. Burton, Ormsbee, the whole
-oroWd Of Insurance ghouis, had their sensl-
hlllties shor ked by the eoarseness OF that
sEsport Subsequent events, examinations Of
-companles and suits IN court would hint
ufhatthe ruth Of the report may have been
the chief cause, with this class OF persons, Of
Hls appropriately. But dignity isthe demand
q the disgruutled; let them have IT, These
u.au~oua end ehaIr frfanda In the IeUfa.