The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-07-23
THE WO0DMEN OF THE WORLD
Something About the Origin Of Pop
ular Beneficiary Organization.

july uunDeI VI Tue Noouuhdh Joul-
nal:
just eighteen years ago in room
at the Paxton hotel, Omaha, Nebras-
ka, Joseph Cullen Root, John T.
Yates, r A Falkenburg and few
others met by previous appointment
and adopted a resolution whereby
they declared their purpose to estab-
lish, proclaim and announce the
founding and commencement of the
Woodmen of the World, which was
then called The Sovereign Camp of
the World Modern Woodmen of Am
erica" and not until their meeting
Of August 18th, 1890, did they give
it its present name. The Woodmen
of the World
During these past eighteen years
the order has remained under the
peerless leadership Of it's founder
and has been the means of cheering
thousands of homes which would
have otherwise been left destitute.
When the banner of the Woodmen
of the World was first hoisted, how
many officials and representatives of
similar organizations to say nothing
of the old line companies, smiled and
muttered; "Oh, they won't last"
They will never amount to any
thing" But whether they did last
or amounted to anything" has been
ton of these same knockers and
kickers. They have been clearly
shown that the Woodmen of the
World have stood the most severe
tests and can and will continue to
stand them until the majority of the
similar organizations who persist in
running along in that same old rut
believing that each day, week, month
or year can provide for itself, will
/ have been long forgotten by all ex-
cept those who were expecting to
leave their families protected and
never had enough interest in their
certificates to investigate the stand
ing and chances of the order when
they were joining, but only listened
to the smooth tongued agent and
! taking his word for everything which
after all was very much the same as
that old, old story of how Uncle Josh
-, bought the gold brick.
Just lok at our large membership
and our low rates" That's what
catches the majority of the easy ones
I who are so anxious to save a penny
that they would sacrifice their fami-
! fy's interest simply for the lack of
that one great important factor
! which is SO valuable in every case
investigation. If 4 man promised to
! pay you thousand dollars and he
! had a family of IL children and
working for wage of $40 a week,
would you have any confidence in
his promise? Then why do you place
your trust in an organization that is
exactly in the same predicament!
JeapardiZing your family's interest
to save a penny or two. Hypocrisy
pure and simple. Investigate. Can
you find another organization any
/ more willing to have its principles
! investigated than the Woodmen of
the World? You are at liberty to in
yestigate all you please and this Is
what you viii find:
The Woodmen of the World is as
above stated, eighteen years old and
is the only order bearing the name
| OF "Woodmen" that has a reserve
fund, and has adequate rates, giving
In addition to the payment of all
just claims when presented a one
hundred dollar monument.
The second largest order in exist
ence and the strongest financially,
having over 6,o0o.o00.o0 reserve
fund, which is invested in safe and
interest bearing bonds netting the or
der $4,000 per day, an income of
over 100000 per year without any
cost whatever to the members.
1t has been said by the representa-
ttves OF the old line insurance COM
panies that as the fraternal orders
grew older and their members began
to die of and possibly having large
per cent of the older members that
the risk, became greater and order
would naturally become weaker and
finally go bankrupt. But they have
long since dropped the argument
against the Woodmen of the World
| for they fully realize that the older
the order gets the stronger financial
! ly it becomes and our plan amply
provides for members in their old
age.
The old line agents usually use
this argument as an apology for their
exhorbitant rates. But if there were
less grating and declaring of divi-
dends on assets which they never
had and less officers salaries and