The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-14
name is the ANVIL.


policies from many sections of the United
States. Its work has opened up in ear
nest and its promoters are delighted. Sa-
vannah will be headquarters for the An
vii, and 10 this city agencies from all
over the country will report.
1t will give employment TO a large num-
Der of Savannah people, as well as to
people in all the large cities in the
United States, where agencies are estab-
lished
This is a step in the right direction.
It brings Savannah business men prom
inently before the world as able both with
money and brain. to launch large enter
prises and to guide them successfully.
1t is no longer conceded that the larg-
est cities of the world alone are able to
give birth to big things
A giant is born right here in Savannah.
And is doing we'll.
1t gives promise of taking its place
among the largest concerns 6f the world.
Why?
Because there is a demand for it,
The cry of those who clamor for it. is
heard all around the globe
The people want it,
And they shah not be hindered
There are but three Fraternal Insurance
Orders established in the South, and the
Anvil will eclipse either of the Others This
prediction will be verified. People are
manifesting an earnest desire to go into
these organizations and to protect them
selves by such insurance as they write.
A panita1iSt
yesterday that he was astonished at the
amount hes had been paying for old line
insurance, as the same was being taken
up by fraternal insurance at fully so per
cent. less premium.
About the strongest argument in favor of
the Fraternal Orders as against the high
rates of the other kind of insurance writ
ten, is the statement of the Georgia State
Insurance Commissioner on page 4SS, table
| ., of his last annual report, viz: The old
line companies collected for the year end
ing April 30, 1899 in premiums s2.1O7. eS3 60
more than they paid out for death loss,
endowments or annuities in this state.
/ The state treasurer, in his last annual
report touching the same matter. saws
that for the last ten years about SIS. 900 900
| have gone into the Golfers of the big old
line institutions in premiums over and
above their losses paid in Georgia.
Fratenal insurance is the Oldest in
surance on earth, dating back hun
dreds and hundreds of years. its sreat
worth has never impressed people so much
as now The demands for insurance which
enables the insured to pay small amounts
monthly is fast superseding that insurance
which requires large amounts in advance.
quarterly or seml-annuany, but in either
event good fat sums as premiums.
The Anvil offers just such insurance
with protection more nearly perfect than
! any on earth. The other day in NIilWau-
kee, al the annual session of the National
Insurance Commissioners Adam Warner.
| the best known insurance authority Of
! Boston, read paper on "Fraternal Insur-
ance, UNFOLDING this feature of insurance.
He said that it is always howled down
/ by old line companies because IL takes
! business away from them at lower rates
He claimed, and it was not disproven
this system of insurance was a system of
! insurance to which 50 per cent. of fhe bus
mess men of this country have invested
Mr.. Albert c. Stevens, a distinguished
writer and statistcian, in an exhaustive
article on Fraternal Insurance. in a late
number of Review of Reviews, say the
form of protection of the families of mem
! bers of these fra ternal organizations CON
| stitutes cooperation in the broadcast sense
| of the word. And he goes on 10 show that
! while many of the students of this socio-
! logical phenomena are aware of il the
| general public has been slow 10 aDpreciate
the extent of the movement. the nature
of its origin its evolution and the enor-
| nous proportions which it assumes to-day
There are nearly 200 mutual beneficiary
insurance organizations conducted on
| what is the lodge system" This is the
plan of the Anvil The ritual is pretty
1t is attractive to men and women, and
outside of the insurance feature binds its
members TO the order
| The associate editor of the STANDARD
Dictionary says that more than 100000 can
dldates for membership in secret socie-
ties are initiated every year.
One out of every three male adults in
the United States is a member of one or
more OF the fraternities Mr.. A. c..
Stephens in concluding a short article in
the Review of Reviews. on "Fraternal In
surance" says: Without the fraternal
order and Its cooperative system of in
surance, thousands upon thousands in the
oyeTi o. their. own deaths, would be I'M
able to protect those nearest and dearest
! to them.
Here II Is seen that this system of in
surance seems to be doing an enormous
work for good and for happiness. which
the old-lne companies have not and are
| not able TO perform. The mere state
ment that there were $500. 900 members
of fraternal orders Dec 81, 1898, compar-
ed with 2,166.Z4 policies In force in old
line life companies, reported by the New
York state insurance department. gives
| some idea of the relative social import
ance of the two systems. on the date
named there was about $500, 100000 worth
| Of old-lne insurance in force in United