JANUARY 21, 1904.
14
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
HOW CLARK BUYS A BOND
Which Guarantees His Family an Es
i s tate, if He Dies, and Himself a
I .Home, if He Lives.
Mr.' Clark, aged thirty-five, is man
ager of the elevator in the town of Sa
'jem. The position pays him a good
salary, enabline him to support his
' family and lay aside about $200 per
year. Though he is now living com
fnrhihlv he realizes that he must de
vise some way of providing an income
lor his declining years.
' His idea Is to buy a farm. During
a period of meditation as to whether
or not he shall purchase a certain quar
ter section of land which is for sale at
$5,000, he Is interviewed by a represen
tatfvA nf thfi Old One Cankers Life In
VIVtl f v v .
mrnn rnmnanv of Lincoln. Nebraska,
.who endeavors to interest him in Life
'Insurance.
tinrrtiv rtnAs the aeent eet well start
. ed, when he is interrupted by Mr. Clark
who tells him of his intention to buy
farm Tift states that he is about to
'make a small payment on the purchase
price and will, if the agent can offer
anything better be an mieresieu
listener.
"WpII " Raid the aerent. "suppose you
tuy a farm worth $5,000 by paying the
mail sum of $175.25 annually without
interest, for twenty .years, -the .con
tract for same containing a clause spe
cifying that, should you die at -any
time the party from whom you buy
- . -.A 1
the land will cancel an aeierrea pay
monta at,ri erlve vour estate a cleal
title; or if you live to the maturity of
the contract, rive you not only the deed
to the land, but pay you as large a per
centage of profit as you coum reason
' hiv pxTiect to make from the property
., Would you buy a farm on those
. terms?" v O
Of course Mr. Clark was interested,
and since the Company secures each
UTirt every contract issued with -a de
posit of approved securities with the
' State of Nebraska, he expressed a will
ingness to become a party to such an
: agreement.
. "Well," continued the agent, "if you
will nav annually to1 the Old Line Bank
ers Life Insurance Company of Ne
" brasfca the sum of $175.25 they will, if
. you die at any time, pay to whom you
tnav name the sum of $5,000. If you
iiva fwpntv vears. they will give you a
cash settlement consisting of the guar
' anteed reserve and an estimated sur
' plus, amounting to $5,491.25. You will
rwidily see that you receive $1,986.25
more than you pay in, which is better
than four per cent compound interest.
Then, too, having the assurance that,
ehmiiri von die vou would leave a com-
fortable estate." Mr. Clark bought the
insurance, and what Mr. Clark did you
can do.
Permit our aeent to explain a con
. tract to you. If you "do not own all
the land you care to farm, ask for cir
cular No. 1 which shows "How Jones
Pouhrt and Paid for a $6,000 farm."
If you have a mortgaged farm, call Iqj
Circular No. 2, which shows "How
fiRmiiela Paid a $2,000 Mortgage."
For further information address the
OLD LINE BANKERS LIFE INSUR
ANCE COMPANY, at Lincoln, Ne-
i "braska,
MONOPOLY A NECESSITY
Gnylord Wllnhlre Come to the Defenie of
'Rockefeller and Declare! That Oily
John was Compelled to Do It
The series of interesting articles
' upon Mr. Rockefeller issstill running
in McClure's Magazine. , The author Is
Miss Tarbell. and her storv certainly
shows.great ability In the gathering of
information. It would seem, however,
that If Miss Tarbell could understand
better that Mr. Rockefeller was forced
v bv unavoidable circumstances to pur
sue his path of consolidation, sho
would write a more sytnpntnetic ar
ticle and one in which tho philosophy
would bo more apparent. No causal
ity permeates her story, hlir docs not
correlate? her facta n she lnlLlit eas
ily do by milking tho prcd.tmlnailni
nottj the necessity nf thinu.
If a leak found in a Mississippi
river levw it beeomea imperative that
it be floj p. d at on for eveiy drop nf
wntrr that KiM-s through tuvti--i'j the
otwnliitt. until I n.i t v he r. h be
fomt-jt so Kre.it th;it nothing can pre
vent the ruin of Mux fcilll. iuh that
U tievrmil lht levee. No hM rl i U
tint great for tho punter to mnho to
pri'vent u h ft l'k, and not h In,; In
rontddered a greater crime thsin to
weaken the leeo. Paring pikwb f
flood, patrols walk up find down m
tho lotto, Armed with rifles, to ahoot
down any pilot who run hi fctiam
lxMtt.J Hear lr the If eo that the
ah from tho Uut d4f.nt: It,
Competition in ft Imalne like the
tll LuUaws, or ttt Jait, any bu'lucra
furnishing a commodity of which !
price is the determining factor In
finding a market, is just as dangerous
to the stability of that business as a
break in the levee Is to a plantation
on the banks of the Mississippi. If
competition is not stopped at once, it
grows worse and worse, until finally
the business is "swamped. For in
stance, here is Mr. Rockefeller witn
a monopoly of the oil business. A
small, refiner, say, like Mr. George
Rice of Marietta, competes witn mm.
Mr. Rice, in order to sell bis oil, sells
it nt ft little lower Drice than Mr.
Rockefeller sells his. Mr. Rockefeller
holds un the nrice. so that Mr. Rice
can make money, even if he must take
a cent per gallon less than Mr. Rocke
feller gets. Then Mr. Rice uses the
Drofits that he so makes In enlarging
his refinery and next month he sells
still more oil and again uses the
profits for still further enlargements.
Meanwhile, it must be understood that
Mr. Rockefeller has more refineries
than enough to supply the market. He
sees" his own refineries standing idle
because he has closed tnem to pre
vent the lowering of price by the pro
duction of too much oil. Mi . Rice
takes advantage of this situation to
nroduce more and more oil. Rocke
feller holds up the umbrella to pro
tect Rice. His profit is the result of
Mr. Rockefeller s restricting produc
tion. What would happen if Mr.
Rockefeller allowed the thing, to go
on? Mr. Rice would finally have just
as large a plant as Mr. liocKeieiier
and the market would soon be flooded,
and both would go down in a common
sea Of bankruptcy through the ruinous
prices made as the result of this over
production. I
We iustifv a man coins to any ex
treme to preserve his. own life and
that of his family. Self-preservation
is the first law of nature. A man's
business is his sunnort in IL'e. and if
you tak'e'that away you take away his
lite. it may seem absurd to taiK
about such a small competitor as Mr.
Rice taking away the life of the Stand
ard Oil trust; but a little mole may
start a hole in the levee which will
develon into a crevasse "allowing the
Mississippi to sweep away a whole
county. Hence, wnen we near tales
of the Standard Oil trust having gone
to the utmost extreme in oraer to
exterminate competitors, even to
blowing up their oil renneries wnn
dvnamite. we need not be astonished
at the heroic measures om ployed.' It
i3 simply a question of self-preservation.
When the trades unions resort
tb every nossible means, legal or il
legal, to prevent even one "scab go
ine work in competition with the
union, they are pursuing exactly the
same policy. They know that, if one
srah is allowed to work, more scabs
will come in, and finally there will be
onoueh at work to break up trie un
ion. The number of non-union men
employed in a shop may be insignif
icant as compared with the number or
. 1 A. it
union men, but it presents jusi me
same kind of danger that Mr. Rice's
small capital against the enormous
capital of the Standard Oil company
does, if allowed to exist m competi
tion with it.
This necessity for the extermina
tion of competitors in the capitalistic
world is going to be brought very
clearly before us during tiie next
year, when profits and interest ap
proach the vanishing point, coincident
with the disappearance of prosperity.
The necessity -for monopoly is going
to be infinitely more apparent in tne
near future than it has ever been in
the nast. This will apply to the
trades unionists as well as to the
capitalists, and all possible means to
secure it will probably be used oy
both sides. WUshire s Magazine.
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WHY YOU SHOULD USE
fiJGHEST AWARD
TO
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a
V. O. Smith. Viola. Ya.: "I send
the names of six populists who are
solid. There are others who would
join if there was an organization. We
vote with the democratic party, not
because wo like it. but beams wo
think it'3 the better of two corrupt
parlies. I am sixty-five years oiu:
have voted for every refrm lu politics
rlnro I hive been a voter, and I in- j
uorso your views on populism fully.
1 will join the Old (Juard later wnen
I am In financial condition to help i
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