The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-28
KANSAS cOMMENT
INSURANCE AGENTS.

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The state superintendent OF insur-
ance has issued an order calculated
to protect the people from the snares
laid by willy agents who have no re-
spect for the truth.
That is good, as far as it goes; but
the people need additional protection,
and it should be granted by the su-
per1ntendent, or by the legislature, If
the matter is outside his jurisdiction.
There are too many life insurance
agents, and not all of them are Per-
feet Gentlemen. In many commu-
mites they have become a positive
pest, and continual annoyance to
busy men who value their time, and
who object to being bored
1t seems that any sort of a man
can secure commission as an agent,
and thus be fully empowered to
weary inoffensive citizens; many of
the agents are men who have failed
in other things, and who have no
other qualifications for their work
than tireless tongues and inexhaust-
ible language. The men who used to
book agents, are insurance agents
now, and they traverse the country
in battalions.
These men, who are easily distin-
guished from the reputable agents,
men of substance and property, have
their offices under their hats and do
much of their business on the streets;
they get that business by wearing
out the patience of victims, and by
holding out all sorts of glittering in
ducements which could be made good
by no insurance company on earth.
And it's little that these agents will
care for any order from the superin-
tendent, touching such methods.
In the matter of life insurance, as
in the mater of groceries and stoves
and such things, it is a good plan to
patronfze men you know, and have
confidence in-men who pay their
ch q Of Nnaf frn
live in the town an indefinite time.
The Oily Tongued Stranger is at all
times an object of suspicion, whether
he sells insurance. or prunes, or the
Life of Grover Cleveland.
At present there is one life insur-
ance agent for every ten citizens. and
the proportion is too strong; and
hence the suggestion that Something
Be Done.-Emporia Gazette.
WHERE MAN IS SMALL.
When Miss Mary Coleman and
Frederick L. Hardenbrook are united
in marriage in New York next spring.
the bridegroom and the best man will
be about the only men to figure in the
ceremony. The ushers will be women,
and the preacher will also be wo-
man. To make the meek little men
seem still more insignificant, the wo-
men will be suffragists, who do not
hesitate to tell the men where they
belong, for that is what the bride be-
heves the proper thing. The long
distance guess as to who will run the
Hardenbrook household is pretty
in favor of the bride But
you can never tell. Man never did
amount to much at a wedding. and a
few of him more or less, is mighty
small item. If the women really want
to show the men that the gentler sex
is superior, they should demonstrate
on something besides a wedding Let
them try managing a ball team, or
try driving nails, or throwing rocks
at the cat. No man ever claimed any
superiority over women in this mat
ter of weddings, and the suffragetteS
wouldn't make men feel any smaller
in this PARTICULAR If they even kept
the groom away from the church, and
performed the ceremony by tele-
Globe.
COUNTY ATTORNEYS MUST ACT.
Attorney General Jackson has call
ed a meeting of the county attor-
neys of the state and will explain to
them in a body how to enforce the
law. He will also make
clear to these worthy officials that the
present administration in Kansas will
stand for nothing else but the strict
of this law. Mr.. Jack
son has proven that the law can be
enforced and that public sentiment
will support the official who does his
duty. Anything else on the part of
the county attorney in any county will
be the appointment of an assistant
general for that county
Iola~Record.