The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-06-15
OLD men TO PROTEST
Meeting Called to Protest Against
Big Boost in Rates Of
Royal Arcanum.
MANY MAY BE FORCED OUT.
Raise in Rates Comes as Great Surprise
to Older Members of Order
In Doubt as to the Fu-
ture of the Order.

Protest of most earnest and deter
mined character will be made by the
older members of the Royal Arcanum
IN kenosha and other cities against
the increase in rates which they de-
clare will deprive them Of their insur-
ance, at the meeting of the grand
council officers and officers of local
lodges, with officers of the supreme
council IN Milwa ukee, on the night of
June "a. These older members will
be supported, it is said, by many of
the younger members of the order,
who, it is asserted, will take the stand
that after giving their support for
twenty years or longer, in order to
bring the Arcanum to its present pro-
portions, the patriarchs ought not
now to be deprived of the protection
which was guaranteed them when
they were given membership.
Grand Secretary D. E. Cameron,
who is one of the men hardest hit by
the new rate, to go into effect on Oct.
!, said Tuesday that the increase
came upon the membership like a
stroke of lightning. His payment,
which he considers has been adequate,
will be quadrupled and is placed at a
practically prohibitive figure.
THE new rate. he stated, twas or
dered by the supreme council at its
meeting held in the last days of May,
without consultation with the grand
jurisdictions of the order, and would
appear to be an arbitrary ruling,
from which it may be necessary to
make most determined appeal. 1t
is the second increase in rates made
by the order, the first having been put
IN force seven years ago. With hum
dreds of other older members of the
order, / believe that the local councils
and the grand jurisdictions should
have been consulted in move of such
far reaching Importance as this must
prove to be.
when the first increase was made,
the supreme council levied three extra
assessments, raising $2,000,OO0 from
which to draw an income sufficient to
AAAS~AAN ~ NA0bONNA ANRdAOy SAOu1O
be found to exist, at any time, in the
fund for the payment Of the death
losses. now understand that the
principal of that fund has been drawn
upon to the extent of 100000, to pay
claims. have seen no statement as
to the disposition of the interest. I
presume that reports showing the
status of the fund will be forth
coming.
Concerning the meeting to be held
on June "a, | will say that it is prob
able that it will be one of the most
important held in Wisconsin in a
number of years, as affecting the fu-
ture of the order. Sitting Past Re-
gent Robinson, of St. Louis, and Vice
Supreme Regent Robert Van Sands,
of Chicago, will be at the Racine eel
ebration of Arcanum day on June g,
and will meet with the collectors Of
all of the councils of the state to ex-
plain the workings of the new SEIZED
ule. In the evening the supreme Off
GERS will meet the members of the
grand council, practically all Of whom,
expect, will be in that city, and a
large number of the regents and other
officers Of the lodges of the state, in
what may be designated as mass
meeting, for the discussion Of the en-
tire problem
John J. Mayer entertained the