Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-21
TRE FARMbdS' M. |. ASS'NS
In Edgefield and Elsewhere
Their Aims and Results
Pungently Put.
GOOD INSTITUTIONS COME TO STAY.

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Earnest and Eloquent Appeal to
the Manhood and WOmanhOod
of Edgefield and Saluda to
Stand by Them-Saluda Mem
bership ImplOred to do its Duty,
as Old Edgefield Has. of Which
1T forms Part.
The cases of the Farmers Mu-
tual Insurance Association Of Ed
geAeld county, S. c., brought by
Folk & Folk, the attorneys of said
association, are now creating con-
siderable attention not only in sa-
luda but throughout the State, not
only on account of the nice ques-
tions involved, but also on account
of the number of cases and the
number of people involved.
The association had, at the time
it suspended operations, about four
hundred members scattered from
tho Saluda 10 the Savannah and
from the Sand Hills OH the Aiken
line to the Clay Hills Oh the Alb
beville line of old Edgefeid and
was until its suspension carrying
insurance at reasonable rates and
to the entire satisfaction of its
membership and is to-day, if prop
erly conducted, one of the best and
cheapest plans of fire insurance
known to the State. The feasibility
of the plan of Farmers Mutual
Insurance Associations and their
successful operations are evil
denced by the fact that similer or
carnations are III the full tide of
successful operation in a great
many counties Of this State, at the
present time, and every session OF
our State legislature adds county
after county to the column of
Farmers Mutual Insurance Asso-
Citations, and we predict that the
day is not far distant when the
whole State, by county organlza-
tions, will, .monopolize this class OF
insurance in South Carolina, as
they reach class of lnsurers and
take a class of risks almost aban-
doned by the Old Line Companies
doing business in this State at
cheaper rates than now prevail for
such insurance IN what is known
as the Old Line Companies. We
predict. further, that the day is not
far distant when the old tempor-
arily suspended Farmers Mutual
Insurance Association of Edgefie
county, S. c.. will rise phGnix-li
from its ashes and build upon t.
the ruins of the old institution a.
under the same old charter, all e
fee of insurance that will be aps
lection to the farmer not Of
against Edgefeld incendiary
accidental fires, but a bulw
against the encroachments
.exactions of old line companies
founded on Northern greed and
love of money which to-day have
left the homes of the solid yeo-
manry of this country-the farm
ers-almost helpless and alone.
Although defunct, as it is called
by some writer's in the interest OF
the parties in Saluda, who do not
care to pay their just and legal as
sessments according to law and
the usages of The old Edgefield AS
sociation; although temporarily
suspended Oil account of the fail
ure of the very men 10 pay their
assessments who now fail to re-
spond when equity and good con-
science demand it; although men,
bers of said association have sus-
tained bona fde losses as members
Of said association relying upon
the coed faith of its membership
to meet their assessments and are
still unpaid, yet the old association
of Edgefeld county, S. c., has not
lost it's faith in its membership
holding as it does 10 the good old
time agricultural, democratic alli-
ance motto equal rights to all
and special privileges to none,"
and still believes that they will
stand to the rack and pay their
pro rata parts of the losses its
members have sustained, however,
badly they may have thought and
still think the association was
managed. We are glad to say,
however, that Edgefeld, that is
left, has done we'll its part in that
direction and we'll nigh to a man
and woman has paid in its dues to
the ASSOCIATION.