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Calumny.
CALUMNY .
ENTERTAINING the opinions we have often expressed respecting the benefits which the new offices have conferred upon the public , and the healthyfstimulus they have given to the business of assurance , we were rather amused , and considerably astonished , at an article which appeared some time since in the " Law Times , " and in which , under the guise of an anxious solicitude for the protection and welfare of the public , an
outrageous general attack is made upon all the new offices . The gist of the article we have referred to is , that new offices have been got up , and are carried on by penniless swindlers , and that in the long run the public will be cheated out of their money . This is an implication wdiich all the new offices are immediately concerned in repelling ; for no one institution is pointed out , and the malice is shewn in the very generality
of the charge , which renders it incapable of either direct proof or contradiction . So far as we conceive the slander , for such we cannot help terming it , is utterly untrue and uncalled for . AVe have a pretty intimate acquaintance with assurance and those who are directing it , but we are not aware of a single office , either old or new , which " the cap " thrown down by our contemporary will fit . All the new offices we believe we may say , are presided over by respectable and responsible men . All of them appear to be founded on secure bases , and
conducted ^ on more correct principles than have heretofore obtained ; and none either by the adoption of unsafe rates of premium , or by other unworthy and imprudent means , attempt to attract the public attention , or secure support . It does appear to us most monstrous , that gentlemen who are engaged in one of the greatest social works of the present age , should be thus anonymously subjected to the implied accusation of
swindling ; and while we are amused at the imbecility of the attack , we are astonished at its malice , and wonder that a journal of high character , should commit itself to so utterly disreputable a course . We must confess ourselves to be quite incompetent to analyze the motives which prompted the writer in the "Law Times . " Men can understand the feelings of a man urged on to attack an individual who has committed
either a public or a private wrong ; and this feeling goes so far , that the public sometimes sympathize with even the murderer ; but sane and civilized beings , must be totally at a loss to understand , perfectly unable to sympathize with , or enter into the feelings of the malay ; who , dagger in hand , rushes forth , and indiscriminately destroys , all who come across his path . For all we know to the contrary , the " Law
Times" is the malay of the press " running a muck" at good and bad alike . Though we cannot precisely point out the motives which did instigate the article , it requires no great acuteness to perceive what motives did not . It was not intended to expose any fraudulent
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Calumny.
CALUMNY .
ENTERTAINING the opinions we have often expressed respecting the benefits which the new offices have conferred upon the public , and the healthyfstimulus they have given to the business of assurance , we were rather amused , and considerably astonished , at an article which appeared some time since in the " Law Times , " and in which , under the guise of an anxious solicitude for the protection and welfare of the public , an
outrageous general attack is made upon all the new offices . The gist of the article we have referred to is , that new offices have been got up , and are carried on by penniless swindlers , and that in the long run the public will be cheated out of their money . This is an implication wdiich all the new offices are immediately concerned in repelling ; for no one institution is pointed out , and the malice is shewn in the very generality
of the charge , which renders it incapable of either direct proof or contradiction . So far as we conceive the slander , for such we cannot help terming it , is utterly untrue and uncalled for . AVe have a pretty intimate acquaintance with assurance and those who are directing it , but we are not aware of a single office , either old or new , which " the cap " thrown down by our contemporary will fit . All the new offices we believe we may say , are presided over by respectable and responsible men . All of them appear to be founded on secure bases , and
conducted ^ on more correct principles than have heretofore obtained ; and none either by the adoption of unsafe rates of premium , or by other unworthy and imprudent means , attempt to attract the public attention , or secure support . It does appear to us most monstrous , that gentlemen who are engaged in one of the greatest social works of the present age , should be thus anonymously subjected to the implied accusation of
swindling ; and while we are amused at the imbecility of the attack , we are astonished at its malice , and wonder that a journal of high character , should commit itself to so utterly disreputable a course . We must confess ourselves to be quite incompetent to analyze the motives which prompted the writer in the "Law Times . " Men can understand the feelings of a man urged on to attack an individual who has committed
either a public or a private wrong ; and this feeling goes so far , that the public sometimes sympathize with even the murderer ; but sane and civilized beings , must be totally at a loss to understand , perfectly unable to sympathize with , or enter into the feelings of the malay ; who , dagger in hand , rushes forth , and indiscriminately destroys , all who come across his path . For all we know to the contrary , the " Law
Times" is the malay of the press " running a muck" at good and bad alike . Though we cannot precisely point out the motives which did instigate the article , it requires no great acuteness to perceive what motives did not . It was not intended to expose any fraudulent