commonwealth. Nebraska insur
ance should be carried in Nebras
ka companies.
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The Awful Drain Upon Nebraska
Did you ever stop and think
about the awful financial drain put
upon Nebraska by the annual
payments of premiums for insur
ance, fire and life, carried in com
panies organized and maintaining
their, headquarters in other states ?
The drain is something terrific.
By the time 1910 closes the pol
icyholders of Nebraska will have
paid to foreign insurance com
panies upwards of $30,000,000 in
premiums for the twelve mo
of the year. Of this vast sum less
than 40 per cent, is returned in the
way of commissions and losses.
This means that $18,000,000 of Ne
braska money was in 1910, sent
east where it remains to build up
eastern business instead of west
ern business. If sent to Nebras
ka it is sent in the shape of loans
drawing 6 or 7 per cent interest,
thus adding to the annual drain
upon Nebraska resources. The
moment a money stringency
shows itself this money is called
in, embarrassing Nebraska busi
ness institutions.
Looked at in whatever light
possible, the habit we have culti
vated of giving the bulk of our
insurance business to foreign con
cerns is founded on shortsighted
ness little short of criminal.
Nebraska offers to Nebraskans
some insurance companies as re
liable and as prompt as any that
maintain palatial headquarters in
Hartford, Milwaukee, New York.
The premums they earn are in
vested in Nebraska; their expense
accounts are paid to Nebraska cit
izens, thus adding to the volume
of Nebraska business. Their
surplus funds are invested in Ne
braska loans, and a money strin
gency has no appreciable effect
upon general business insofar as
these home companies are con
cerned. Instead of helping foreign in
surance corporations to build pal
aces in eastern cities, let us "so
handle our insurance affairs as to
build up our own Nebraska cit
Let us pay salaries to our own c
izens to care for our insurance, in
stead of paying swollen salaries
to eastern men who deal more
seriously in "high finance" than in
anything else. Let us employ Ne
braskans instead of men a thou
sand miles away. Let us build up
our own insurance corporation
instead of those of other states.
The money spent by Nebras
kans for insurance, life or fire,
should be spent with eNbraska
concerns. They afford insurance
as safe, and prompt and as econ
omical as any offered by reliable
companies anywhere.
Let us all work together for the
upbuilding of Nebraska business
institutions !
Building For Nebraska.
The insurance carried by Ne
braskans upon their homes should
be carried in a company that not
only does business in Nebrasak,
but maintains its head offices in
Nebraska. Such a company is the
Union Life Insurance Co. of Lin
coln. It is one of the oldest fire
insurance companies in the west,
with a long record of successful
business behind it. It pays Ne-
r.'is
its supplies in Nebraska, invests
its surplus in Nebraska. Its pol
icyholders are contributing the
upbuilding of an institution that
means much for the future of the
Something to Interest Him.
It was the evening when her week
ly caller always made his appearance.
"I wish I had something new and en
tertaining to show him," said the girl
to her mother.
"If you'd only mentioned it in time,"
said her father, "I'd have brought
home my account book with the dry
goods, millinery, stationery and con
fectionery bills for the last three
months all itemized and balanced. I'll
venture to say that would entertain
him." Youth's Companion.
The First Anthracite Coal.
When tV first two tons of anthra
cite coal were taken into Philadelphia
in 1S03 the good people of that city,
so the records state, "tried to burn
the stuff, but at length, disgusted, they
broke it up and made a walk of It."
Fourteen years later Colonel George
Shoemaker sold eight or ten wagon
loads of it in the same city, but war
rants were soon Issued for his arrest
for taking money under false pretenses.
Canine Rudders.
"The dog," said the scientific gentle
man, "sometimes steers himself with
his tail."
"Uses it to guide his wandering
bark, does he?" asked the irresponsi
ble humorist.
The Ruling Passion.
He I hear that your husband has
taken to smoking . again. I thought
you Insisted that he should give It up?
She Yes, so I did, but I found such
a pretty smoking jacket at a bargain
sale!
A Weak Climax.
A newspaper thus describes the ef
fects of a hurricane: "It shattered
mountains, tore up oaks by the roots,
dismantled churches, laid villages
waste and overturned a haystack."
In character, in manners, in style, In
all things, the supreme excellence Is
simplicity. Longfellow.
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