The Commoner.
VOLUME 12, NUMBER 15
In the POSTAL LIFE you insure direct
i L :n;Ane
ana receive uw agcm & Lumuiwaiuiio
"Direct": that la the word that exactly describes the way in which
you do business with the Postal Life Insurance Company.
Because you do business in that way you save and receive what
other companies pay to agents.
It Is the only American company that dispenses with agents, general
agents, collectors and branch offices; policyholders get the benefit.
M MHi SJ Of the premium is the average
Jm E 0 Commissionrdividend on a whole
jL f) life policy guaranteed to Postal
ML J policyholders the first year.
In subsequent years, Renewal
commission-dividends and office
expense savings, make up the an
nual guaranteed dividend of
Wo
In addition to these guaranteed dividends, the Company apportions
and pays annually the usual policy-dividettds ranging this year up to twenty
per cent, of the premium.
The Company receives application
from nil the States : Its policy con
tracts are valid and binding wher
ever the policyholder resides, and It
maintains the full legal reserve for
the protection of policyholders every
where.
Non-residents are as fully protected
by the New York Insurance Depart
ment as though they were residents
ot that State.
The POSTAL LIFE has been thus
transacting: business since 1905, but It
has not taken that lonjr to prove the
soundness and efficiency of the Com
pany's non-agency method.
This method has also been followed
by a leading English company for more
than 1 00 years: the latter company Is
one of the very best Insurance Institu
tions In the world; it has never paid a
penny of commissions to an agent; Ita
policyholders receive the benefit, as In
the case of the POSTAL LIFE.
'Twill pay you to find out just what the POSTAL will save you
personally the first vear and every other. Simply write and say :
Mail insurance particulars for my age as men
tioned in THE COMMONER for April 19th.
Your request involves
no obligation and the
POSTAL will send no
agent to visit you : it dis
penses with agents : you
deal direct : the Company
pays you the agent's commission.
STRONG POSTAL POINTS
run
mmn
Postal Life Bulldlnc
Address, giving occupa
tion and exact date of birth,
POSTAL LIFE
INSURANCECOMPANY
The Only Non-Agency
Company in America -
WM R. MALONE, Prwldent
35 Noma St, New York
First: Old-line Waal-reserve
insurancenot fra
ternal or asienment.
Second: Standard policy
rcterves, now more than
l0.000.ooa Insurance in
force mora than $50,000,000.
Third: Standard volley
provisions, approved bj tha
Stat Inmranca Departmaut.
Fourth: Operates under
atrial RtaU rfnutrrmmt
and fubject to the United
States postal authorities.
Fifth: High medioal
ttandarda In the selection ot
risks,
Sixth: rolioyhold erf
Health Bureau arranees one
free medical examination
each year, U desired.
still applied to that part of Okla
homa which waB formerly in the.
Indian territory.
Senator Robert L. Owen of Okla
homa, addressed the senate, advocat
ing Senator Swanson's bill to appro
priate $20,000,000 annually for five
o-o fn nwi Hia Rtntfis and local
communities fa the improvement of
public roads.
The Indian appropriation
carrying $7,600,000, passed
house, leaving live
bills to be acted upon
bill,
the
appropriation
grew until it numbered nearly 600
She was not 'contented at Borden
town and, going to Washingtdn se
cured a place in the patent office
which she lieltFtintil the outbreak of
the civil war.0'
President Taft condemned lynch
ing in vigorous terms in addressing
the Howard university alumni at
Washington.
President Taft, according to a
White House announcement, will
take no cognizance of Senator
Dixon's open letter to him.
A charge that Wall street and the
big corporations are controlling the
house "money trust" inquiry is con
tained in a resolution introduced by
Representative Lindbergh, republican.
Government supervision of grain
and cotton exchanges as a relief of
violent fluctations of the markets
was proposed hefore the house com
mittee on agriculture.
President Taft and Secretary of
War Stimson are severely arraigned
in a sensational report on the Ains
worth case presented in the house
by the military affairs committee
Representative Underwood says
there is not much hope for the tariff
revision bill on account of the oppo
sition in the senate.
WASHINGTON NEWS
The supromo court has refused to
reconsider its "patent monopoly" decision.
Consideration of the post-office
appropriation bill, carrying $259,
827,749, was begun in theMiouse.
r
Nominations sent to the senate by
Baintor of Missouri, commissioner of
education for Porto Rico and Earl
A. Hunter, postmaster at Juneau,
Alaska.
An Associated Press dispatch
says: Miss Clara Barton, founder
of the American Red Cross society,
died at her home in Glen Echo, Md
recently. The cause of her death
was chronic pneumonia with which
she was stricken about a year ago.
Her brother, Stephen Barton of Bos
ton, was with her when she died.
Miss Barton was born at Oxford,
Mass., in 1821. Miss Barton had
been confined to her home, "Red
Cross," at Glen Echo, Md., since last
fall, when she returned from a visit
to New England. It was thought her
trip was beneficial, but soon after
ward she was taken seriously ill.
She celebrated her ninetieth birth
day anniversary December 25, when
sne received many messages of con
gratulation from all ports of the
world. Clarissa Harlowe Unrfnn
known throughout Christendom as
Clara Barton, has been aptly called,
the Florence Nightingale of America.
On the battlefields of the civil wnr
and in the camps of the French and
German armies in Europe she nursed
wounded and dying soldiers She
took personal charge of the nursing
of the fever patients of the south and
after the fall of the commune she
entered Paris on foot and fUnfrtVmf
ioou io tne starving. She endured"
the hardships of travel in Russia
and Turkey to relievo suffering
humanity and faced the- dangers of
yellow fever in Cuba to nurse Cuban
soldiers in Santiago. Miss Barton
was born Deoamhfir sk -iooi i.
Oxford, Mass., and was the daughter
vmiiLuui oiepuen Barton, who
of
General Frederick D. Grantson of
the famous ,UTff6h general, is dead.
CONTROL OF STEEL
, Special' dispatch to the Chicago
Record-Herald: Washington, March
27. One of the most important por
tions of the Stanley committee's re
port on the "steel trust" was com
pleted today by J. W. Boston, clerk
of the committee. It exposes in a
graphic way the system of "inter
locking directors" upon which Rep
resentative A. C. Stanley of Ken
tucky, chairman of the committee,
has laid such stress and is compiled
from data obtained by the committee
In the course of its investigation.
More than fifteen billions of dol
lars lsthe grs.n,d total of the capi
tal, surplus and.,funded -debt of the
various companies in which the offi
cers and directors of the United
States Steel corporation are also of
ficers or directors. The list includes
about 213 financial organizations.
After- mentioning this enormous
amount of money $15,208,497,325 to
be exact in" the control of which the
officers and directors of the Steel
corporation have a hand, Mr. Stan
ley expects to call attention to the
fact that the total amount of money
in circulation in the United States
is only $3,284,152,496, and when the
bullion in the treasury is added the
total amount is only $3,621,117,239.
Twentv-one is the number of the
officers and directors of the United
States Steel corporation who are also
officers or directors of other largo
financial institutions. The Stanley
report will show, the companies In
which each of the men are officers or
directors and the capital stock, sur
plus and funded debt of each com
pany, together with the total stock
holdings of each man.
George F. Baker, a director 6f the
Steel corporation, heads the list, be
ing an officer or director of nearly
sixty companies, whose total capital,
surplus and funded debt reach the
enormous figures of $5,871,407,819.
Mr. Stanley rand his democratic
colleagues will pgue that their com
pilation of data, shows better than
anything else the great power of the
United States Steel corporation and
the absolute necessity that the fed
eral government j&dopt proper .mqans
to keep such a tremendous and far
reaching concern in check.
The committee will also take' the
position that it is absolutely un
reasonable to suppose that these 213
companies, worth more than fifteen
billions of dollars, do not work in
harmony when tliey have directors
and officers in common. This tre
mendous concentration of health
will receive the attention of the com
mittee and will figure largely in the
recommendations which it'wjll'lnalco
to the house. " 'r
Julian Kennedy of Pittsburgh,
steel plant builder and meqhanlcal
expert, declared today before the
Stanley steel "trust" committee that
"By owning railroads in the Lake
Superior ore region and the Pitts
burgh district the Steel corporation
can produce a ton of pig iron $1.60
cheaper than can, its competitors."
The supremo court refused to take
any action which would have opened
the way to test a nlnim fhaf i
wmm, .i,iKiij 7 - ," w""u y lu-w
President Taft included Edward M. intoxicant In the IndiTTerritory
SLll An"y Wayne
T', r x""mns' Alter complet
ing her schooling she was a teacher
for a time, but the occupation did
SSm !t r a,ld 8 beCOm a Cloth
trimmer in a factory. Later, after
a course at the Clinton Liberal in
stitute she ventured upon a new
undertaking and founded a free
school at Bordentown, N. J., wuich
beginning with six pupils, 'quickly"
THEY WILL FAIL
Minden (Neb.) Courier: Senator
Hitchcock has joined In the fight
against Bryan. , ''Come one, come
all, etc.," and like the fabled bird
of Arabia, wlU arise, losing none ot
2K ssentials of. honesty and purity
Hitchcock, with tthe power andLpresy.
tige that goes -with his ofllce is un
able to cope with so valiant a leadolj
and heroic defender of human right
