Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1905 — The Poor Policy Holders. [ARTICLE]

The Poor Policy Holders.

The Prohibitionists who are policy holders in the Equitable Life Assurance society have unwillingly been partners in a “rum hole” which has l>een and Is still carried on with their savings. There is perhaps a certain amount of comfort to them in discovering that it was a “first class bar” and paid a large revenue Instead of being a low down groggery. Nearly every policy holder in these insurance companies has some special grievance on the way that he now discovers part of his money has been expended. Some object to the high salaries paid, others to the large commissions received by the agents, others to the pensioners, others to the dinners given, others to the general extravagant management, others to the whisky selling. But these are all minor offenses and peculations compared to donating to the Republican leaders vast sums to defent the Democracy l>y debauching the voters of the United States that could be induced to sell their sovereignty.