People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — Studies for April and May. [ARTICLE]

Studies for April and May.

T- What is money? 2. What is its relation to wealth? 3. By whom should it be created? 4. Of what material should it be made? 5. How much money ougnt to be created and kept in existence in the country? 6. How can it be put in circulation and kept in circulation among the people? 7. How much should be paid for the use of money, and to whom should it be paid? 8. Should the law prevent speculation in money? 9. Should the law prevent the loaning of money by individuals or corporations? 10. What is a flexible currency? 11. What would be the best means for attaining a flexible currency? 12. Should banking be permitted by law except by government agencies? The above studies for this and next month are taken from a small work used in the Colorado Alliance. This system in study is a good thing and we hope all sub-alliances will discuss these and other topics thoroughly.

. The Faria Record, the official paper of the State Alliance, a 16-page monthly, price 50c a year, will be sent free to every subscriber of the People’s Pilot who pays SI,OO on account, pasi, present or future. This offer is made in place of any other premium offer. The Aid Degree has paid over $20,000 in death accident benefits from January 1, 1894, to February 1, 1895. An Aid Degree lodge was formed in No. 3,127. Lafayette county, Missouri, last month. Still they come! Another aid degree lodge was organized in No. 3,065, Lafayette county, Missouri, and a start made in No. 3,064. A life insurance policy in the Alliance Aid is beyond the reach of the assessor or tax gatherer; the sheriff can never touch it, but at a cost of only about 1 per cent per annum (ranging from half of 1 per cent to 2 per cent) you add SI,OOO to your estate for the benefit of dear ones at the darkest hour they will ever see. The March assessment of the National Alliance Aid is made to pay death losses as follows: Geo. W. Gust, Preston, Kan., $2,000; James W. Cook. Warner, S. D., $2,000; James T. Alexander, Augusta. Kan., $1,000; George F. Covil, Aberdeen, S. D., $2,000. The families of the above deceased brothers will be placed t beyond the danger of immediate want by their foresight in taking a policy in the Aid Degree, and when it comes our turn to join them “over there” the brothers will do for our families what we now T do for these.

The fraternal orders furnish the cheapest kind of life insurance in the world, and the farm-ers-live longer than other classes, accordingly the death rate is lower than in other occupations —therefore, it naturally follows that life insurance furnished in our own order will be cheaper than in any other order—the cheapest in the world. The following counties in Indiana are now represented in the Aid Degree: Boone, DeKalb, Green, Hamilton, Henry, Madison, Marion and Tipton. Next week we will give our readers the cost of life insurance in this order, which has established such an enviable record for careful management as shown by the low death rate, and which is controlled by the national executive committee of the Alliance. The members of the organization no longer need to look outside for safe insurance. Their own order ranks among the safest and cheapest in this country.