The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-17
THE KNIGHTS AND LADIES
OF SECURITY.
IT'S SUCCESSFUL CAREER AND
HIGH STANDING.
The Society's Growth in the First
Five Months of 1899 Exceeds All
Previous Records, While It's Re-
serve Fund is Fast Nearing the
S2OO.OOO.OO Mark

serve EunQ IS EaSt N caring the
$2oo,ooo.oO Mark
The knights and Ladies of Security
whose headquarters are in Topeka. oc-
cupying the first floor of the Stormont
building, 107 West Sixth avenue, have
had a most remarkable and successful
career and now rank as the most Sc
cure and reliable among the many good
fraternal orders of the country.
Organized in 1892 under a Reserve
Fund plan, that is today recognized
as the best yet devised to insure per-
petuity and reasonable cost, it has
grown to number more than $4,000 MEM
bers and has councils organized in
seventeen states of the union.
On the first of January. 1899, the So
ciety had over 10000 members and has
added over 5000 to their ranks since
that time.
Commencing without capital it had on
January 1, 1899, $123, 900 reserve fund,
which has increased since that time to
$780, 900 and will by the end of 1899 near
ly if not altogether reach the sum OF
$4,000
For its age it has the greatest amount
of reserve fund or capital of any fra
ternal order ever organized, and this,
too accumulated when it's membership
was small and its plan opposed by
nearly all the fraternal orders of the
country.
The plans of fraternal orders have
been undergoing great changes in the
past few years.
Several of the oldest and largest or
ders have been compelled by the force
of circumstances (Which in their case
was the payment of death lOsSeS) to en-
tirely revolutionize their plans and con-
fess than the system as conducted here
tofore was a failure and only a benefit
to those who died early and that to
prove of benefit to the masses. for
whom they were organized, it would be
necessary to charge such sums as
monthly payments from their members
as would meet the natural mortality in
a series of years.
The majority of orders have done this
and are to be congratulated on deViSing
remedies to overcome the mistakes of
the past and have proven too that the
men who succeeded the early projectors
of the system that has done so much
to benefit mankind, has kept homes in
tact, has saved widows from despair,
and children from poverty, were men
who realized their duties and tried to-
remedy the mistakes of the past as
soon as they were apparent.
The founders of the Knights and
Ladies of Security profiting by the
twenty-five years of experience of fra
ternal orders and realizing the defects
of the system, started in with the view
of building a fraternal order that with
each succeeding year would grow
stronger and that the man of middle
age could advise his son to join with
the certainty that should both live life's
expectancy their beneficiaries would re-
ceiVe the sum that they had provided
for in their certificates.
In Topeka nearly 1900 of it's citizens
are members of the knights and Ladies
of Security and in many families father,
mother sons and daughters carry GER
tificates for the protection of each other:
The order publishes a monthly paper
of 3d. 900 copies each issue and a COPY
will be given any one who calls at the
office or sends a postal giving address
which will fully explain its plans and
give full information in regard to the
society.