Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-04-20
Points Worth Noting.
Prompt Action Saves Money
and Averta Danger-DOn't
Delay. but Act Now.
You Need Not Die To Win In the
Equitable Life Assurance
Association.

/. II you need assurance don't
delay! 1t costs more to take out
apolicyas you grow older Then,
too, delays are dangerous. Ac-
cidents happen. Health may be
impaired. The opportunity may
be irrevocably lost.
2. Even if you have a policy,
do notrestcontent unless you are
adequately assured. II you in
sure your building for $1,000
and sustain a loss from fire of
$4,000, the report would be
that you were not ''fully insur-
ed" If your life is assured for
$1,000, consider whether you
do not need $4,000. If you
have 1000, should you not
increase it to $Ioo,ooo?.
3. If you have a policy, and
are advised to change it for an
other, hold fast to it. A new
policy will cost more, and the
intrinsic value of any policy in
creases as it grows older.
4. Ii you have a policy, do not
fail to pay the premium prompt
ly. Do not give up the protec-
ton of your assurance even tenn
porarily.
S. If your home or anyof your
property is mortgaged, do not
rest content for an hour without
life assurance.
YOU NEED NOT DIE TO WIN.
Scoffers have sometimes as
sailed life assurance on the
ground that it is ''a game at
which one must die to win.'
But life assurance is not a
"game' and its returns are not
in anysense ''winnings." Still,
in the case of life assurance of
the old-fashioned type-except
when issued on the Endowment
form-iti is true that the advant-
ages to the beneficiary in each
instance accrue only after the
death of the assured. The in
PRODUCTION however, of the Ton
tine Dividend form of policy by
the Equitable Life Assurance
Society, has supplied a form of
life assurance by which, wheth-
er one lives or dies, he is equal
ly sure to secure an advantage.
The monthly lists of death
Claims Paid" issued by the
Society, abundantly prove that
the heirs of by far the greater
number of those policy-holders
who have died since its organi-
cation, over thirty-three years
ago, have been immensely the
gamers through life assurance.
But the holder of a Tontine
policy may also live, and, at the
same time, retain the advantage
of a productive investment. This
fact is demonstrated by the re-
suits accomplished under the
Tontine policies issued by the
Equitable twenty years ago,
and whose Tontine terms ex-
pire during 1898. The holders
of all these policies had the ad-
vantage of the protection of the
assurance during twenty years.
Had any ofthem died, their poll
cies would have been promptly
paid by the Society, and life as
surance would have performed
its customary benefcent func-
ton. But having survived the
Tontine period of twenty years,
the Society has been and is en-
abled, in every instance, to re-
turn to the assured, should he
so desire it, a sum in cash great
err than the entire premiums
paid during the twenty years.
There are other great advan-
tages secured to Tontine policy
holders inthe Equitable. In life
assurance, as practiced by the
Equitable, the man who reaps
the benefit is the man who lives,
and if he chance to die, those
whom he loves better than his
life, still live, and they mot he)
will be the beneficiaries.
Every Tontine policy issued
by the Equitable Society, TWEEN
ty years ago, whose Tontine
period expires in 1898, has a
present cash surrender value
greater than the sum of the
premiums paid, in addition to
the protection furnished by the
assurance. Alltwenty-yearT Ton
tine Endowment policies show
a return OF the premiums paid,
with interest at rates between
E and 7 per cent per annum.
C. c.
MEXICO, Mo-,
General Agent Equitable Life
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