The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-06-01
IN SIX YEARS
The Insurance in Force has Doubled
The Surplus has Increased
Threetold
Mortality Cost per $1,000 Insurance,
1888,


ations in 1878, It's business has
steadily increased with every year.
until, in 1895, it made a greater
gain in the State OF Pennsylvania
than any other life insurance COM
pany excepting only three, any
one Of which is much older Our
business extends over forty states,
in each of which 1t Is under
the inspection Of the lnsur-
ance Department. We have now in
force over siXty.Gye millions Of in.
surance, The company has never
refused to pay an honest claim,
Our plan Of business is unique
We decline to do business on the
plan Of the old line or legal reserve
companies, simply because that
plan makes II necessary to collect
eXhorbitant premiums, and falls to
| furnish the best security to policy
| holders. We will not do business
on the ordinary assessment plan,
because the premiums commonly
charged by such companies are too
low, and an increase Is sure to come
few years later The Fidelity
bases It rates on what insurance
has cost In the old companies for
the last century and 1t collects
more money for premiums than any
company has ever yet legItimately
made use Of, This renders higher
premiums unnecessary and unjust,
In this way we have saved to policy.
holders, In the seventeen Of years
our history, several millions of doll
lars,
We issue all desirable kinds of pol
icies, For a straight life policy we
charge about 80 per cent, less than
other companies We sell a twen.
ty advance payment HE policy loI
what others charge for an ordinary
lifei a fifteen advance payment pol
Icy for what they charge for d
twenty.payment, and a ten advance
payment life policy for what they
charge for a 0lteen-payment We
give paid policies, cash surrender
values, and extended insurance In
fact, we do everything that an In-
surancc company can legltlmatcly
do for lts polleyholdera, We do
not Issue Investment or endowment
policies, We have something far
better, For the same premium
that you pay to get an endowment
policy we will give you 30 per cent,
more protection during the term
selected and considerably more
money, II YOU wish 1t, at the end Of
the term,
We make II our business TO eXs
plain what use we make Of your
money our motto has always
been, Let In the Light" Our
whole story Is summed up In a re.
eItal OF faeta=not theories gath
cred from insurance experience,
We put into every policy our fame
Gus Safety CLAUSE, which renders
failure Of the Company impossible
from any Of the ordinary causes
which compel business failure, In
this way we guarantee safety to
lhc plllcy.holdrr and perpetully Ia
the Company a double aeeufIty,
We insist that ours ID Che safest la'
auranee company In the world, and
we ask no man to Insure with us uh.
less he agrees with that proposition
after he hOB heard II explained,
We court the most rigid lnyesliga'
tIon,
No company IN America has a
more competent man At its head,
aud none a more efficient corps OF
assistants
No company stands better Ia the
estimation Of Insurance men gene
rally large numbers Of whom carry
policies with us,
We number among our patrons
thousands Of the prorperoua busl'
ness men OF forty states We would
liku TO add your name TO that list,
II you will agree TO IT, you will bt
in a 'go5dIy fellowship" you viii
have some money left for other
things Shall we quote rates fOi
your aReY
RBAyfs n llRduT, Mgrsp
Little Rock, Alta
toHN q, kHhY Dist Mafu