The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-13
FIGHT FOR THEIR RIGHTS
TREATMENT FROM INSUR-
ANCE COMPANIES
DISCIPLES OF HAHNEMANN
They VIII Hold Their Annual In
stitute In minneapolis Dur
ing the Coming
Week.

One OF the important subjects to be
discussed at the coming meeting of the
minnesota Homeopathic institute, which
Will be held at the Masonic temple in
minneapolis, May Is to Ii, will be that OF
obtaining fair treatment from the life in
suIahce companies. The movement is
national, and is comprehensively set
!orth In the following suggestions made
by a committee of the national institute.
which will be presented at the coming
session of the state institute:
The question of how to secure for orr.
School OF medicine the recognition tina.
justice demands should be ours from the
me insurance companies, has puzzled the
minds of several committees Much has
been accomplished in the past. as the
published reports of the committees show.
but greater results must be secured be-
belongs to us.
The committee for 1890 has gone care
fully over the ground and has arrived at
the conclusion that coercion will prove
Oh little, II any benefit to us in secur-
ing recognition from the companies
They are insuring lives as a business.
and to reach them we must do ii in a
business like manner We must show
them that We are not making an effort
TO force recognition from them, neither
are we begging it as a gift, or demand
ing 1T solely as our right, but upon a
business basis we declare that we should
not be legfslated against because we be-
EeVe in and practice the law of cure as
formulated by Hahnemann. The commit
tee, therefore, proposes to depart some
what from the methods of former COM
mtteeS, and work not directly with the
NE insurance companies, but request the
physicians all over the country to helm
III thls work, and If we can secure this
cooperation, 1t VIII be but a short time
until every company in the United States
anu Canada throws the door open wide
to US.
We would suggest that every physician
who is willing or desires to become a life
insurance examiner, write to two or three
companies, asking for appointment and
follow the matter up until he receives
some positive answer. Let each physician
also bring some business pressure to bear
upon the companies, by selecting several
OF his patients, who may be influential
men, and request them 10 write to the
various companies in which they may
De Insured, short letters, calling attention
to the class of people who patronize
standing and professional ability of
homeopathic physicians, stating that it
Is the desire of the homeopathic patrons
OF these companies that they have the
privilege of always choosing the school
by which they will be examined when APP
plying for life insurance.
Many of our old school brethren are
adding considerable amounts to their an
nual incomes by the work done for life
insurance companies, and we as homoeo-
paths can do the same thing after re-
CelNIH5 the appointments. In many re-
spects man Will carefully consider the
advice, outside of medical matters, that
ne receives from his physician; and it
requires but little time to drop a word
now and then to a man regarding life
insurance for the protection of his family
When man has been interested in the
subject by his physician the agent finds
it much easier to interest him still more,
and any agent who has thus had the
way opened for him will willingly recip-
rocate the favor shown him by the doc
tor. Many of the patrons of homoeo-
pathy,. especially in our towns and small
er cities, are being picked up In Just
this manner through the influence of
old school physicians, they reaping the
benefit. There is-no reason WIN we
should not reap this benefit.
If any physician who has made appli-
cation to any company to become an
examiner, and has been denied; or who.
having been appointed, has no work TO
do, viii kindly report the facts OF the
case to the committee. we will INVESTIGATES
it and use our Influence to set matters
Alright.
The programme for the state institute.
beside banquet Wednesday evening,
and business session, includes three
days consideration of papers technical
in character.