The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-06-14
ADDRESS BY CHARLES ". HUBNER.
ROYAL Arcanum and Fraternal Insurance
the Life Insurance Companies.

100, R0yal ArCauuuI, ooA
significant facts and figures IN COM
paring the stability and feasibility Oh
the ROYAL Arcanum and fraternal IN
surance with the old line companies:
1t is we'll known fact thaG many Vi
the old line insurance companies nave
been waging bitter ana relehC-
less war for years against Iraeer-
nal insurance associations, and against
every secret order in whose organlza-
tlon there is embraced provision Tor
insuring the lives of its members Tor
the benefit of their families. rms war
against fraternal insurance orders Is
conducted with unfiagging energy,
and frequently in most Unfair anu
unscrupulous manner by the authorlZ-
ed agents of these companies, and by
the papers which they control, through
the columns of which direct and lndl>
rect assaults are made almost daily
upon fraternal orders. These attacks
consist mainly in base inuendoes, IN
oarbled statements, in mlsrepresenta-
tions. and other ignoble attempts TO
nreiudlce the public mind against fra
ternal insurance. Their object - 20
undermine their influence, ana, II
possible, to destroy the fraternal or
ders. whose existence has proved to be
snch an obstacle to the selfish plans,
the greed, and the enormous dlvldeho>
producing resources of she leading Ola
line concerns.
1t is hardly necessary to point out
to intelligent mer the motives which
prompt these continuous attacks upon
our fraternities. These motives grow
out of selfish aims, the dog IN the
manger" spirit which oharacterizes the
management of all great money-mak-
ing concerns IN this country, whose ar
regant managers and greedy stock
holders desire to crush out all honest
competitors, that their big salaries,
their enormous profits and their yearly
increasing millions may suffers no de-
crease, and that 3heir power to control
legislation favorable to their monopo-
listic designs may receive no check at
the hands of the toiling and long suf-
fering masses.
In view of these facts, no candid
man will allow himself TO be deceived
by the groundless elections Of old line
Insurance men to fraternaI insurance,
nor will be give much weight TO the
unfair CRITICISMS upon fraternal or
dars so constantly being made by GER
tain INSCRIPTIONS editors of the mo-
nOpolistIc insurance pres
Because our order the Royal Area
mum. stands in the foremost rank Of
fraternai orders, and is conspicuous
for the wisdom of It's management, the
LOYALTY Of it's members, its clean record
and its great benetits-it Is because of
these facts that It's opponents have
singled it out as the chief object
OF their attacks and misrerepsenta-
tions. 1t is the best and rlpest fruit
on the tree that birds peck at first.
Our enemies know that if they
could succeed in undermining our
foundatIon-WAich is >0ult upon the
confidence of The people in our institu-
tion-lf they could accomplish our RUN
and downfall, they would have won
Waterloo victory over the entire army
of fraternal societies, ard could cas-
ily drive all kindred allies from
the field. Hence their br0adsldes are
conferred upon the Royal ArcanuW,
and the walls of bittereSt wrath are
poured uron our head. Neither mon
ey or labor is spared to accomplish this
end. All sorts of pamphlets are issued
from their presses TO cripple our pop
ularity by inSlnuating that our honest
claims are false and that our existence
must soon come to an lgnomlnlu0us
end. A recent pamphlet of thlrty-tWo
pages, issued by the "IDsurance
Press" is devoted to the Royal Area
mum under this startling aud sensa
tional title: mo salvation for the
Royal Arcar um. It's seven years
search for plan to place the order
on an enduring foundation ends in ut
ter failure" etc. The sublime etfront-
cry and ''cheek" of this statement,
charging fraternal insurance associa-
tions in general, and the Royal Area
mum in particular, with instability and
failure. is apparent when we consider
the fact that out of 1872 old line cOmpa>
MES which have been chartered IN this
country 744 have failed, and there
now remain only 48, the Oldest being
about 81 years old. ALI these defunct
companies had capital stock paid IN
and all claimed surplus.
This pamphlet | am quoting from
gives the report of the commission on
asse ssments, in relation to the assess
ment plans, and proposed changes
therein, as presented TO the supreme
Council at the last session OF that body
in Cleveland, 0. This report was ex-
haustively considered by the Supreme
Council for several days. The various
plans suggested were thoroughly eX
amined, and finally the Reynolds
plan was adopted, as atfording the
best and safest means for promoting
the continuous prosperity of our order
and under the provisions OF which the