Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1898-05-28

Join young Order and reap the
benefits of its few assessments an
nually. Those who joined the Work
men twenty-five years ago and who
have since passed beyond this vale
of tears reaped the benefit of its
cheapness, while those who join that
Order at this, the eleventh hour,
come in only to bear the burdens of
those long since passed away"
The advice given in the above quo
tation is devoid of logic and argu-
ment, to say nothing of the palpable
misstatements of facts, which can
only be appreciated by reading the
quotation. II it is better to join the
young Order, for the reason that it
only has few assessments annual
ly, then it is better still to join an
Order just organized on the same
principle, for during the first year
it will not, in all probability, have
any assessments. 1t is evident that
the writer regards the value of the
organization in corresponding ra-
ito with its age, and that the older
the organization the less desirable is
membership in it. 1t is undoubtedly
true that the society which levies
assessments when deaths occur
must expect an increasing cost as it
grows older, and tor this reason be
less desirable than the younger in
stitution, where the deaths are few
er and the cost necessarily less, by
reason of the comparative youth of
the society, but this rule is the out
come OF the inherent weakness OF
the assessment plan, and he who
Joins a young society today because
the cost is less must expect to meet
the same difficulties in the future
that societies of like plans have met
in the past. In other words, he must
expect the cost to increase with each
increasing year of his age until it is
possible that it will become so burd-
ensome that he will be compelled to
relinquish his membership. Our ad-
vice to the prospective candidate is
to have nothing to do with any soci-
ETY. which is only providing for the
present; to leave severely alone that
society which contemplates n cost
which has no settled foundation, but
is dependent upon the deaths as they
occur, and which has nothing to look
forward to in the future but an in
evitable annual increase in the num-
Der of assessments. The time has
gone by when societies based upon
post-mortem assessments have any
right to exist. The experience of the
past twenty-five years has demon
strated the inherent weakness OF
placing upon their members the
burden of heavy cost when they
are the least able to bear it, and the
protection offered by such societies
becomes less and less valuable with
increasing age on account OF the IL
naneial burdens they impose upon
their members. The "bull," howev-
er, in the statement that "those who
Join the Order referred to at this, the
eleventh hour, bear the burden of
those who have long since passed
away" We cannot see it in that
light the burden of those who have
long since died was borne by those
who were members at the time of
their death, and if it occurred 80
long ago there can be no burden now
tor new members to take upon them
selves. AS matter of fact the bur
den that those who Joined the older
societies have to bear is not the out
come of the deaths that have occur
red, but is the result of the increas-
ing deaths that will occur, owing to
the increasing age and consequent
increase of the death-rate CT the
members. We suggest to our con-
temporary that it reconsider its ad-
vice, reconstruct its logic, and give
little more consideration to it's
statements before it puts them into
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