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Article THE GENERAL ASSURANCE ADVOCATE. ← Page 3 of 8 →
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The General Assurance Advocate.
the same promptitude to suggest improvements , the same industry in the collection of masonic news , the same liberal devotion of space will be exhibited as heretofore , we trust that we have said enough to ensure a continuance , if not an increase , of that liberal masonic support and encouragement which we gratefully acknowledge ancl value so highly . To Insurance Companies we would say that we base our hopes of
support from them upon the fact that the large interests which they represent , the princely revenues they administer , the great operations in which they engage , demand public discussion and attention ; ancl in no way can attention be aroused , or discussion carried on so well as by an organ devoted to the subject and advocating their interests , so far as they do not interfere prejudicially with the interests of the nation at
large . Of that being the case there is but little dread , for it may be confidently predicted that the prosperity of the people , their advancement in comfort and virtue , their progress towards happiness , is not only consonant with , but necessary to the extension of the action of Assurance , and that proportionately as they advance , the wealth and stability of Assurance Companies will be secured ancl guaranteed ; in
short , that the interests of those who are occupied in carrying out the principles of Assurance , and the interests of the great body of the people are identical . What affects the interests of the one party
prejudicially must be disadvantageous to the prosperity of the other . What prevents Insurance Companies from profitably employing the funds upon the certain increase and regular fruitfulness of which they rely to meet their liabilities without loss to themselves , will also prevent individuals from assuring . Among these causes may be enumerated mismanagement of public finance , monetary crises , commercial
convulsions , impaired powers of production aud inefficient systems of distribution . These great subjects will all from time to time be touched upon , not as political topics to support one party or to depreciate ? nother , but as social causes , so as to illustrate their real action in their effects upon the interests of Assurers and Insured . Those are the only points at which we may find it necessary to trench upon what may he considered
as the domain of party politics , and our readers may depend upon our doing it without any exhibition of partizanship . There are other great public questions besides those we have mentioned which should claim the attention of the Assurance Advocate ; they , however , are purely questions of a social nature , which politicians of all parties see the necessity of solving . The sanitary condition of the people is one of
these , to which may be added another almost if not equally important subject—the effects of various kinds of labour and its duration , upon health and longevity : indeed it may be said that without a consentaneous and contemporaneous consideiation of the action of the combined
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The General Assurance Advocate.
the same promptitude to suggest improvements , the same industry in the collection of masonic news , the same liberal devotion of space will be exhibited as heretofore , we trust that we have said enough to ensure a continuance , if not an increase , of that liberal masonic support and encouragement which we gratefully acknowledge ancl value so highly . To Insurance Companies we would say that we base our hopes of
support from them upon the fact that the large interests which they represent , the princely revenues they administer , the great operations in which they engage , demand public discussion and attention ; ancl in no way can attention be aroused , or discussion carried on so well as by an organ devoted to the subject and advocating their interests , so far as they do not interfere prejudicially with the interests of the nation at
large . Of that being the case there is but little dread , for it may be confidently predicted that the prosperity of the people , their advancement in comfort and virtue , their progress towards happiness , is not only consonant with , but necessary to the extension of the action of Assurance , and that proportionately as they advance , the wealth and stability of Assurance Companies will be secured ancl guaranteed ; in
short , that the interests of those who are occupied in carrying out the principles of Assurance , and the interests of the great body of the people are identical . What affects the interests of the one party
prejudicially must be disadvantageous to the prosperity of the other . What prevents Insurance Companies from profitably employing the funds upon the certain increase and regular fruitfulness of which they rely to meet their liabilities without loss to themselves , will also prevent individuals from assuring . Among these causes may be enumerated mismanagement of public finance , monetary crises , commercial
convulsions , impaired powers of production aud inefficient systems of distribution . These great subjects will all from time to time be touched upon , not as political topics to support one party or to depreciate ? nother , but as social causes , so as to illustrate their real action in their effects upon the interests of Assurers and Insured . Those are the only points at which we may find it necessary to trench upon what may he considered
as the domain of party politics , and our readers may depend upon our doing it without any exhibition of partizanship . There are other great public questions besides those we have mentioned which should claim the attention of the Assurance Advocate ; they , however , are purely questions of a social nature , which politicians of all parties see the necessity of solving . The sanitary condition of the people is one of
these , to which may be added another almost if not equally important subject—the effects of various kinds of labour and its duration , upon health and longevity : indeed it may be said that without a consentaneous and contemporaneous consideiation of the action of the combined