Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-06

danger of man losing cent on any OF
them if he fulflls his contract by paying
them all he agrees to give them for a policy
according 10 law. | state this as a fact of
record in our courts and the annals of al
legal life insurance companies. II d man
will take the time and care TO examine :he
books of all the life insurance companies
now doing business in this and all foreign
governments, he will see that men and
wome nof all classes and stations OF life, in
legal conditions are dealing in life insur-
ance, and are being greatly benefited by
the advantages sit affords them in their
efforts 10 better their estates and make
life 4 success for them and their children.
The business of Stralght-line insurance,
in the concrete. is the fairest, safest and
best institution for the preservation and
perpetuation of the values of life and prop
erty that the mind Of philanthropic man
has ever wrought or the world has ever
known. In proof Of this | refer YOU TO the
records of the business that has been done
leg Ally and right by all the honorable peo-
pie engaged in il for a living Examine
them and see that what | say IS so. 1t Is
doing more toward the fau distribution Of
the finances OF the world. IOr the general
good Of man in his efforts to preserve the
value of his life and property for the bene-
iii OF himself and his generations, than any
other known institution Tor that purpose.
II is the achievement of greater success in
the disseminating and holding money in a
safe state of solution for the use and gen
rral good of he in commerce on all its
beneficiary lines than any other tinancier-
ing institution has ever done Stripped OF
al speculative and gambling features. as is
now in great measure done BY Christian
ity and law. insurance has done, and is
doing, more 10 save life and property val
ues from ruin and destruction from the
rayageS of death, water and fire than al
other means of tinanCicring done by man.
anu especially life insurance. A mans
life is the most valuable thing he possesses
for his OWE good anu that of his genera
tons, and he is inevitably liable to lose it
by death AT any unexpected moment Of
time to him. II is so ordered TO be OF life
for man by his Creator He can take no
lease of time. He must die IL any moment,
and when he is dead that IS the end of his
power God has power to live. Man has
only power to die, on time.
Asmau's only power 10 secure, preserve
and perpgtuate the great value of his life
unto the good of himself and his children
after him is by the means of al incorpUreal
institution made by law to be perpetual in
the preservation and disbursement of cStl-
mated values of life from generation to gem
Grafton OF ii living basis Of interest paid in
to secure them in the form Of bonds to be
paid at a stated time by some legally au-
thorizcd responsible straight line life in
SuTdnce company, twenty-five Of which we
have here III the United States, some of
them showing record of nearly a half a
hundred years standing in the business. If
Nuu VIII 20 and examine the BOOKS OF these
companies ana look ut their registered poll
Cy-holderS you viii see that the life iusur-
alce business of our country has done and
is doing more general good for our people
III the WAY of providing money for them to
meet their emergencies with than all our
other governmental tinaucierin"s; that Of
the United States trcasrers and the pen
sion department with I'LL their fame not cX-
ccptCd. The life insurance business has
more saving features in it than any other
system of tinancierinG in this: II makes
the estimated value of life a realizab!c GER
taiuty to al who avail themselves Of its adj
vanta@es by patronizinG the opportunities
il offers on j living basis for the security OF
its perpetuation and realization from genera
ton 10 generation on 10 the cEd OF time. In
viewing and reviewing the annals OF our
life insurance business we find of record
that its patrons have been, and are now.
the most thoughtful, prudent and success
tul classes Of people in all lines of life.
The time to insure is now. Nearly all of
our greatest successful business men for
the last past fifty years have kept, and are
keeping all their liabilities well covered
with life insurance policies, so as TO secure
their creditors from loss and protect their
estates from forced sale for debts in case
they should die Indebted, thereby paying
of all claims against them, and leaving
their wives and children with home nm
iucumbered. and a comfortable living after
they are dead and gone from them. In our
life insurance institutions. by their sys-
TEN OF tinancerinP, the full value of all
mems lives can be secured and safely per-
pc,Uatcd unto the end OF their greatest
good for themselves and their generations
after them. l advise all men to keep the
value Of their lives and property well in
sured, especially that Of their lives,
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