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Tho Name Tolls the Truo Story
SUPERIOR
GRAIN DRELLS
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TUB AMERICAN SEEDING-MACHINE
CO., inc.,
Springfield, Okio.
OUR PLATFORM
THE MIDWEST LIFE stands back
of every statement made by Its
agents in soliciting insurance to this
extent: That if a policy, when tend
ered for delivery, is not exactly as
explained by the agents, the appli
cant need not accept it; and his note
or money given in settlement of the
first premium will be returned to
him. In fact, he need not accept a
policy if he does not wish to, al
though the policy is just as repre
sented in every respect.
In short, THE MIDWEST LIFE
will recognize the right of an appli
cant to change his mind, reason or
no reason, even to the time the policy
is delivered. Wo earnestly hope, af
ter one has once signed an applica
tion, that he will not wish to cancel
it; yet, such is his privilege if he in
sists upon exercising it. No attempt
will ever bo made by this company
to thrust a policy upon an applicant
against his will. We are anxious to
sell insurance, but we are more con
cerned, with having satisfied policy
holders. It is the satisfied policy
holders who become tho persistent
policyholders, told it is the persist
ent policyholders who make a company.
No one, therefore, need have the
slightest hesitation in dealing with
the agents of THE MIDWEST LIFE.
It is our purpose to employ only
men of integrity and clean business
methods, realizing that the man in
tho field, when soliciting insurance,
is the agent of the company, first,
last and all the time; and that his
acts and statements, within the ap
parent scope of his authority, are
Iho acts and statements of the com
pany. It has no desire to shirk any
responsibility resulting from this re
lationship. Sometimes our judgment
of an agent may be wrong; but if it
is, under our method of doing busi
ness, no prospective policyholder
need suffer thereby.
It was once said of life insurance
that it was the only legitimate busi
ness in which sales were made by
fake methods. Whether this was
over true we will not stop to discuss.
As far as THE MIDWEST LIFE is
concerned, the selling of insurance is
placed on the same plane as other
high grade commercial transactions.
Our aim is to so deal with our policy
holders that they will be the best
friends the company has. A com
pany is -developed and is successful
in proportion as it has many dealings
with the same individuals. We are
not seeking a chance to-take advant
age of anybody. We give a full
equivalent for all that we receive, be
lieving that in every honorable trans
p.ction each party is benefited; and,
conversely, that -it is not a righteous
sale if good does not result to both
the buyer and the seller. On this
platform we solicit your patronage.
The Midwest Life
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For An American Policy
From Tho Chicago Tribune, March
3, 1916.
Within a week, a fow days, forty
eight hours, or over night President
Wilson's policy with regard to sub
marines may be, perforce and with
out a chance of escape, tho policy of
every citizen in tho United States.
We approach a point beyond which
there can be nothing but action. It
will have to bo united action. Tho
nation can not in part accept and in
part reject any policy which by event
or by determination of tho govern
ment becomes the policy of tho na
tion. Just now the submarine policy is
that of the President. It has almost
but not wholly been made tho na
tion's policy. It may be made wholly
so any day, either by tho act of a
German submarine or by the act of
the United States government.
For tho present, however, it is sub
ject to m modification. There still re
mains an opportunity for public opin
ion clearly expressed to change it.
Tho agency for tho expression of
public opinion Is congress. Wo be
lieve tho national interests demand
that congress refuse to allow Mr.
Wilson to commit tho country as he
wishes to do. If he docs commit the
nation his policy becomes ours. That
distinction must be mado and em
phasized. If he commits the nation
wo haul down our opinions and must
stand by his. But there is yet time
for protest.
Congress can check this dangerous!
procedure. Unchecked it may not
lead to war, but it contains the dan
gerous possibility of war. It is a
possibility that can not be ignored.
We must look at the most serious
possible outcome. We are not justi
fied in Joking chances. What is the
worst tning that is within rational
consideration? That is the question.
There is only one thing that can
justifyPresidertP Wilson's policy. It
must be stated frankly if it is to be
a justification. That is the belief,
tho assumption, or the fact that Ger
many's success and Great Britain's
defeat will imperil the United States.
If that be so or if there be good
reason to think that it would be so
the nation is justified in aiding Great
Britain and injuring Germany. It
would be more courageous and more
honorable to do so as an ally of Great
Britain, but it is permissible to do it
in the form of benevolent neutrality.
We can do as Portugal does and as
Greece has been forced virtually to do.
This nation does not class itself with
Portugal and Greece. It is stronger
and is not imposed upon by circum
stance. A goo'd many Americans may think
that tho President is insisting upon
a matter of national right, supported
by international law, and that the
national honor is involved. The
President tells them this. It is not
so. It can be regarded so, only by an
unusual and inexcusable insistence
upon words.
The trouble is that the submarine
is damned In American opinion. It
is an illegal craft, a pirate, command
ed by murderers. It Is to bo de
stroyed. It is not to be permitted to
operate.
The truth is that if we were in war
it would be still more desirable for
us than it is for Germany to permit
to submarines wide latitude of op
eration. We have a smaller navy.
We have almost no merchant marine.
We have an enormous coast line.
Germany has a powerful navy. Ger
many has a wonderful merchant ma
rine. Germany has a small coast
line, and that coast line is impreg
nable. The largest navy in tlie world
can not reach it.
If our smaller navy were to be
forced Into a protected harbor by
greater power or were destroyed, our
great coast lino could bo protected,
so far as it might bo protected, only
by the submarine. This boat can be
built quickly, transported easily, and
assembled, and it could do tho only
effective work wo could hope to do
against a greater naval power.
Wo should want to attack the mer
chant shipping of tho enemy. We
havo no merchant shipping to de
fend. We should need to cut tho en.
oray line of overwater communication
by which supplies wero being for
warded to any baso established on
our shores.
This is absolutely certain as a hu
man prospect can be: If President
Wilson's policy becomes tho nation's
policy now it will bo revoked by na
tional need in tho very first emer
gency which brings it homo to us.
Wo shall no more abide by it in dan
ger than wo should surrender at the
first touch of danger.
It can not apply to this nation and
it will not bo permitted to apply. If
tho situation ever touches us we shall
not permit a peaceable ship to carry
guns and sink our submarines while
our boats are endeavoring to destroy
an enemy's commerce and yet give
strict consideration to every dictate
of humanity.
If a peaceable ship intends to re
main peaceable it does not need guns.
If it has guns the submarine takes a
chance every time it arises to com
mand surrender. It can be wholly
certain of its safety only If it sink'tho
ship without giving it warning.
But sinking without warning is
unnecessary if peaceable ships will go
unarmed. Shall wo now direct our
policy to such consequences that some
day an American commander of a
submarino seeing a peaceable ship
carrying supplies to an enemy estab
lished in a baso somewhere on the
American continent had either to ex
pose his boat and his mission to pnr
sible ruin or permit the ship to on on
undisturbed or to sink it without
warning?
We do not believe that a policy so
Inimical to the present security of
tho United States and so embarrass
ing to its future ever was insisted
upon bcJ$re by an American admin
istration. It is true that the President has
committed himself to a procedure
which will help Great Britain more
than anything else that could be done
short of becoming her ally. It has
as its possible consequences the
chance that it will end in our fighting
by her side and the chance that it
will protect her shipping.
Germany's only chance of success
may lie In destroying British ship
ping. If she can not do that she may
not bo able to break out of her en
circled position or to "wear out any
one of her strong enemies. If we,
by Insisting upon words that aro as
Inimical to us as they are to Ger
many, stand between Germany and
tho British shipping we are Britain's
ally indeed.
It may be it is the President's plan
that wo shall be. He may believe
that a victorious Germany would
threaten our national security. We
aro far from convinced that it would
not. But let's have an understand
ing of what we are doing.
If we must help Great Britain to
defeat Germany, congress ought to
proceed with knowledge of that fact.
At least congress ought to know the
seriousness of what we are doing. If
wo are not helping Great Britain, but
are merely inviting difficulty, pos
sibly war, with Germany to insist up
on the letter of international law,
modifications of which already have
been accepted by the American gov-
ornmont, congress ought to inter- 4
venc. j.
This nation does not want war to
protect the guns which a poacoablo
ship of another nationality insists
upon carrying.
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