The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-19
It IS A BIG THING
Remarkable Growth of the
Modern Tonties.
WICHITA is ITS HOME
New and Non AssaiIable Idea
in Personal Insurance.
WICHITA is ITS HOME

The Modern Tonties, whose home office
IS situated in the Sedgwick block Of this
Pity. have Just closed their fourth year
with a most remarkable record This
association originated in Wichita, max
Ing its beginning in an transformations
manner, has steadily and constantly in
creased until it has reached surprising
proportions, employing a large force OF
clerks. and occupying large and commo-
dious office rooms where the entire bus
mess of the order is transacted
People are rapidly coming to see that
this plan embodles the genius Of orga-
nized and systematic investment and re-
liable protection The Modern Tonties
win. in the life OF its present Officers
be- one OF the greatest financial and pro-
tectfre institutions 0f America Tor the
PRINCIPLES upon which ii is organized and
operated are unsssailable, evolved from
the logic Of q long experience Ia mutual
insurance.
The order has already passed the expe-
rirnental stage Seven thousand, nine
hundred and thirty-one membership GER
tifcales were issued during the year.
which closed with the month OF April
zach month showing a yarger increase
over the corresponding month OF the pre-
eeding year For example the month Of
H.
hundred and ffty-nine members while
Ia April. 1891, twelve hundred and fifteen
new members were added, a net increase
Of nearly 800 per cent over the same
month last year.
There is no longer any doubt Of the
stability Of the TOnties, and the people
of southern Kansas should feel just
pride that the national office Of This
young and vigorous order is located IN
wichita For the amount Of business
done and the percentage Of increase the
Tontics probably have no equal among
the fraternal associations which are do
ing business in this State. Indeed, only
two Kansas orders have a larger mem
bership but the business Of the Ionues
is not limited TO Kansas alone. They
already have thirty-one established coun-
ellis In Oklahoma. 6fty-one in Texas, and
are meeting with wonderful success IN
Kentucky. Arkansas. Colorado, Wash
ington. California and other states.
The secret Of success with this re-
rnarkable fraternity is found chiefly in
the fact that it is so wei adapted to
present conditions and needs The annu-
itv feature is particularly attractive
1t requires little argument TO convince
the average man or woman that it is
safer protection, If not in all respects bet
ter. TO- receive 10 per cent interest on
5000 for ten or twenty years. or for life,
than il is to receive Sc Geo in q lump sum
and Immediately proceed to spend it. It
IS no uncommon thing for a man or wo-
man to be paid a certificate by some in
surance company and in a few months
be again at the door OF poverty
This association is now upon q firm
foundation and is amply able to pay
every obligation incurred, by its certih-
Gates or otherwise and il is especially
to be noted that, unlike most other fra
ternities. its ability TO pay does not de
pend up0n an increase of membership nor
upon the youth Of its members In Ordi-
nary fraterual insurance the enlisung
of new members is the only resource for
the continued payment of policies. but
the TOuties are SO constituted that should
new members cease TO come in even now,
every obligation could be paid i'm fun; its
plan for the investment Of surplus funds
IS unique and probably one of the safest
that has ye4 been devised.
Indeed. il seems remarkable that Sc
comprehensive and perfect a plan of pro-
lection should not have been long ago
discovered and put into practical opera
ton. hut the same can be said of every
new invention or Improvement
While the Tonties are what many re-
gard as the best fraternal protection
known. Il is 10y no means claimed 10y its
friends that it's plan may not be improved
upo4i bus IT lis claimed that the Order of
Modern Tonties presents the very best
possible protection which has yet been
devised