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" Is Your Life Insured ? "
questioned in the " Post Magazine , " with a tartness and acerbity seldom called forth except in protection of shaky " vested rights , " or by feelings of self-interest . Our object , say the promoters of the new speculation , is to benefit Companies and Assurers ; to which the " Post Magazine " in effect replies by translating the prospectus to mean , seeking for profits without affording corresponding advantages . We think this somewhat
illiberal . AVe do not know why the parties connected with the " Post Magazine" should not be open to the same objection . They , as well as those interested in " Is your Life Insured ? " seek for advertisements , and would probably he quite as unwilling as anybody else to forward the objects of Assurance Companies , unless they found it profitable to do so . The quid pro quo feeling we imagine is equally applicable in both cases ,
and if the cry of " Rogue " must be raised , we fancy we may say with King James , after hearing the contending lawyers , " Rogues all—Rogues all . ' " It is true , as Hudibras has it , that folk
" Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to . *' And we are heartily sick of that sort of illiberality which is so conspicuous among literary men , and which leads them to give tongue and attempt to cry down every new competitor . People " who live in glass houses should not throw stones ; " and perhaps the surest way of causing
one ' s own motives to be suspected , is to always cavil at and doubt those of others . " To the pure all things are pure , " and the world is getting wise enough to comprehend that those who cannot believe in the honesty of any one else , are not much too good themselves ; over-righteousness always smells strongly of hypocricy . The "Post Magazine" may do well to recollect that , without any reference to the character of the projected work , the ability with which it will be conducted , or the nature or extent of its circulation , we must say that the scale of charges for
Advertisements appears extravagantly high ; a consideration likely to act more disadvantageously to the proprietors than to any one else—for , while the acute Managers of Companies will not be deterred from any fair means of seeking publicity by the squabbles of merely interested parties , they will not be induced to " pay too dearly for their whistle . " However , that is no concern of ours ; and for ourselves we can only say
that we shall accord a hearty welcome to every able coadjutor or competitor in the good work of extending Life Assurance , and the greater the ability with which that object is promoted the more sincere will be our congratulations .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
" Is Your Life Insured ? "
questioned in the " Post Magazine , " with a tartness and acerbity seldom called forth except in protection of shaky " vested rights , " or by feelings of self-interest . Our object , say the promoters of the new speculation , is to benefit Companies and Assurers ; to which the " Post Magazine " in effect replies by translating the prospectus to mean , seeking for profits without affording corresponding advantages . We think this somewhat
illiberal . AVe do not know why the parties connected with the " Post Magazine" should not be open to the same objection . They , as well as those interested in " Is your Life Insured ? " seek for advertisements , and would probably he quite as unwilling as anybody else to forward the objects of Assurance Companies , unless they found it profitable to do so . The quid pro quo feeling we imagine is equally applicable in both cases ,
and if the cry of " Rogue " must be raised , we fancy we may say with King James , after hearing the contending lawyers , " Rogues all—Rogues all . ' " It is true , as Hudibras has it , that folk
" Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to . *' And we are heartily sick of that sort of illiberality which is so conspicuous among literary men , and which leads them to give tongue and attempt to cry down every new competitor . People " who live in glass houses should not throw stones ; " and perhaps the surest way of causing
one ' s own motives to be suspected , is to always cavil at and doubt those of others . " To the pure all things are pure , " and the world is getting wise enough to comprehend that those who cannot believe in the honesty of any one else , are not much too good themselves ; over-righteousness always smells strongly of hypocricy . The "Post Magazine" may do well to recollect that , without any reference to the character of the projected work , the ability with which it will be conducted , or the nature or extent of its circulation , we must say that the scale of charges for
Advertisements appears extravagantly high ; a consideration likely to act more disadvantageously to the proprietors than to any one else—for , while the acute Managers of Companies will not be deterred from any fair means of seeking publicity by the squabbles of merely interested parties , they will not be induced to " pay too dearly for their whistle . " However , that is no concern of ours ; and for ourselves we can only say
that we shall accord a hearty welcome to every able coadjutor or competitor in the good work of extending Life Assurance , and the greater the ability with which that object is promoted the more sincere will be our congratulations .