The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-10-18
4 FAMILY AFFAIR.
n Interesting Chapter to Insurance
Policy Eoldsrs-

IUl!Cy AUlAslS
How Scme cf the Old Line Insurance
Are Worked rthe Benefit of
Certain Families.
James Hazsn Hyde, James W.
Alexander, JJhn A. Mccall. Gaorg
W. Perkins, Richard a. McCurdy,
Robert II. McCurdy. The New
York American sditorially says these
are few Of the ins:ra :cs gratteIs
who should be tried 0 c::imiEai Char
ges. Commenting OF tne inv stlga-
tion no1 eoir & on in NV York Of
the insurance conpaDles' the Nav
York American says: I'VE hope and
Lelieve that all the peaple q the . ii
ted States ara reading Gay Oy day the
reports OF the investigation Of th'
methods CT the life insurance CON
panies now in progress. The Drsz,n
confessions Of grafGing, looting aud
p cul2tlon made By the heads OF these
companies are so apparent to even
the casual reader that there seems
little need to call attention to them
II any man holding q policy in the
Equitable, the Ne4 York Lie or the
Mutual Life Gees not discover frcm
the testimony OF the officials Of those
companies that he has been sold gold
brick, or butchered to make a holiday
for the families Of the presidents, he
must be more than blind-he must ba
insane.
Now, mark, these msn who have
been taking the money painfully scrap
ID together by hard working people
to furnish a fund for the support OF
their wives and children after.death
are eninentlY respectable" They live
in beautiful houses in Morristo~n,
Long Branch, Newport or other
charming spots. They are members
Of the best society, but for all that
they have done things that demends
investigation by a Grand Jury.
o. al the crimes which New York
has known there is none so heartless
and so cruel as that OF }!ch Mccall
and McCurdy are col'cssecly guilty.
It Is high time that wt'aH ey have
done should be look 4 a; n s proper
light as crime-a c ile ~ be pun
isaed by a penitentisry rtsnca- and
nos as a mere matter Q. corporation
finance.
Tie money paid into the insurance
com panies is not, in the main, that CT
rich men. We hear now and again OF
people who hold policies for $500 600
or more. They are the exception.
The great volume OF the insurance
assets Of something mcre than oil.
lion dollars is made up Of Policies OF
81 900 or less. These policies repre-
sent the painful savings Of hard work
ing men, savings on which they can
nope to realize nothing, savings laid
up to save their wives and their boys
and girls from privation it death
should take tee wage-earner away.
Could there be any more sacred
fund! Gould there be any trust re-
posed in a man that should b.. quite
80 faithfully administered?
And yet this is wha5 the heads OF
two life Insurance companies did with
these funds:
THE NEW YORK LIFE
John a. McCall, president 100000
Darwin 2. Kinsley, son in-law,
second vice president 100000
John G. Mccall, secretary, son $4,000
Ballard Mccall, son 10000
Ambrose Mccall, brother 5000
E. E. Mccall, brother 10000
Walter Fitzpatrick, BROTHER
in.law 1000
Frank Dolan, brother-in law 7 500
Albert McClave, son. .in-law 5000
There are also at least ten other
selatives Of President Mccall who hold
minor places that pay them from
81, 200 to 1000 year each.
THE MUTUAL LIFE.
President Richard Richard a. Nc
Curdy Sl50,O0O
R,bs. q. M:Curdy, soa, general
manager, salary $4,000
R )bert H. McCurdy, general
manager, commissions 100 600
L. a. Thebaurd, son-ln.laW,
commissions $4,000
c. A, Gillette, cousin, connected With
Texas agency; commissions 1880
Ellis J. Moore, brother-in-law II, 900
2. Siugvesent Pilot, cousin to
brother-in-laH $4,000
The story Of boys OF nineteen to
twenty one being paid out OF the fam
lily loot salaries OF $40, 600 to $40. 900
IS too familiar to recount here. But
what Of the man who earns 81, 500 e
year and pays tie rsscally parasites?
You, who may read this editorial,
may have an insurance policy, taken
to keep your wife or your child from
want if you should die. Does it not
compel you 70 scIape and save to meet
the yearly premium? Don'tyou once
in while lie awake wondering how
you are going to get the money to
keep it up. AMI now, when you lad
your money, and that OF q host OF
other people like you, is being used to
maintain useless ltfic!als, all OF one
family, in luxury, don't you think
that it is time to act-time to put
scme OF these rich and respectfully
scvundels in jail?
What more contemplate lot OF ras-
Gals has the world ever known than
She men WHO send agents to gather In
the money OF people Of slender means
and then use it for their own profit?
II the criminal law Is unable to reach
these smooth scoundels, new laws
shlul be made to serd these men to
the penitentiary. The mere matter
Of restitution is nothing. They are
criminals ard should be punished as