Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-17
Nv d. w. Norris OF Grimnell.

ny L. W.. INOEIlS VI
In discussing the question of life
insurance and the frauds commute
In the name OF life insurance, my eff
fort has been to treat it in prac-
teal way rather than theorize. / have
assumed that the principles and bene-
fits of life insurance needed no elabo-
ration. A few days ago while riding
thru the valleys of Nevada picked
UP copy OF the San Francisco Ex-
aniner. A policy holder In one OF the
New Yc.ls companies had asked the
Examiner whether he should keep up
his payments The Examiners reply
was in substance, pay your premium
by all means: don't let your policy
lapse, as this is exactly what the Nc
Calls and the McCurdys are wishing
for. Every lapsed policy releases the
reserve held to protect 1t and lapses
will, enable the men who have been
robbing you to point to an Increased
surplus in vindtcation Of their man
agememt. / say to all policy holders
in the companies now under investi-
cation, pay your premiums promptly.
Don't take the grace allowed, for these
INSCRIPTIONS men are anxious to take
advantage just now of your slightest
default The reserves are. intact and
long before the McCalls and McCur-
dys can impair them the control OF
the funds will be taken out of their
hands. Never fear. This investigation
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under the control OF respectable men.
In the same paper, the Examiner,
the editor undertook to give United
States Senator John f. Dryden, presi-
dent OF the Prudential some informa-
ton that he pretended he wanted.
Everywhere go find the daily paper,
/ find the people Uniformed. 1t was not
only a surprise but a pleasure to find
the homesteader in the Nevada desert
reading his daily and competent to
discuss the recent disclosures in New
York city
John F. Dryden OF New Jersey can
not work any bunco game, and his
political spasrn Of virtue Is generally
believed to be an effort to avoid an
investigation Of the company of which
he is president, and which Lawson
exposed The Prudential belongs to
Newark N. j., but do not confound
it with the Mutual Benefit, which is an
organization that scandal has never
touched.
/ urge you to pay your premiums,
but don't take any more insurance in
any New York company nor in the
Prudential fell in the other day with
a broker and mining expert from New
York City. He was insured in the Mu-
tual Life and the Prudential, and he
spoke only bitterly of both. A gentle
man in Denver told me he had 100000
in the Mutual Life and that Lawson
could have his proxy. The recent cleo
ton in New York City was Influenced
by the belief that Tammany in refus-
ing to support Jerome and the republic
cans in trying to seduce Hughes into
accepting the nomination, We're both
trying to head off criminal prosecution
of insurance officials.
If you have policy in any one of
the New York companies and If you
hold deferred dividend policy in any
company in which you have only paid
one or two premiums, and If you know
you are insurable, my advice would be
to drop them.
First. Avoid all companies managed
and controlled by the Wall Street gang.
men who are distrusted and despised in
every commercial center Of the world:
men whose only claim to notoriety Is
their wealth dishonesty obtained: men
that Roosevelt had in mind when he
said at Atlanta, And OF ell men IN the