The Oklahoma Workman (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 1, Ed. 1 Monday, January 1, 1906 Page: 3 of 8
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THE OKLAHOMA WORKMAN.
extent of $12,000 for a few members who were 55 years of age on Jan-
uary 1st 1904.
So far as Oklahoma was concerned her members are not supposed
to grow older than 54 years old after January 1st 1904. So that un-
less she does adopt the new plan she gets no benefit from all her future
payments to the guaranty fund. Now where does this money go? The
following table show where it went to at the last two meetings of the
Board of Directors.
DEFICIENCIES ALLOWED.
At the July meeting of the board of directors of the supreme lodge
deficiencies were allowed for the months of May, June and July as fid-
lows:
Pennsylvania $51,053.00
Ohio 15,282.00
Kentucky 6,462.00
Iowa 4,965.26
New York 43,655.00
Illinois 23,542.00
Minnesota 16,000.00
Wisconsin 6,686.00
Tennessee 5,722.00
Michigan 18,567.76
Georgia 4,916.00
Kansas 15,191.61
Oregon 6,750.11
Texas 3,158.00
Nevada 1,750.00
Colorado 1,252.00
Montana 382.97
New Jersey 5,495.66
West Virginia 634.00
Louisiana 1,772.00
Arkansas 1.728.00
Arizona l,57:i.70
Maine 5,102.00
Rhode Island 7R6.15
Connecticut 5,806.00
Total $248,233.16
A quarter of a million in July and again at the September meeting
of the board of directors the following amounts were allowed the fol-
lowing grand lodges:
DEFICIENCIES G"RANTED
At the thirty-first meeting of the Board of Directors, held at Mead-
ville during the week of September 18th to 23rd, death claims of the
various jurisdictions wore examined. Deficiencies, interest and reserves
were allowed to the various jurisdictions in the following named amounts
on claims presented since the meeting in July. The amounts were as
follows:
Pennsylvania $48,955.19
Ohio 9,415.92
Kentucky 3,133.43
Iowa 2,386.00
New York 30,192.07
Illinois 14,282.91
Minnesota 5,300.43
Wisconsin 9,835.86
Tennessee • . 65,067.62
Michigan 22,367.22
California 69.351.10
Georgia etc 3,103.82
Kansas; 11,814.39
Oregon 6,596.45
Maryland 5,291.90
Texas 4,512.12
Nevada 1,3 52.06
Montana 1.173.42
New Jersey 2,909.98
British Columbia 676.00
Utah, Wyoming and Idaho 1,863.76
West Virginia 1,44(1.60
North Dakota 327.86
Louisana 1,023.16
Arkansas 585.66
Arizona and New Mexico 61.60
Maine 1,939,13
Rhode Island 890.61
Connecticut 2,693.08
S. L. B. J 900.00
Total $272,422.47
Considerably over a half million paid out at these two meetings of
the Board to the relief drawing states and, the big four wealthy states of
California, Pennsylvania, Illinois and New York drawing $284,OOo of
the half million. On the subject of relief the Grand Master Workman
of California in a circular letter of Nov. 10th says that "the Supreme
Lodge lias poured iido the treasury of California in relief since 1S96 the
sum of $1,383,000.00" and after all this some writers on this subject say
that we are not charitable if we ndo not continue to pay our share of this
relief under the name of guaranty fund and we are gravely assured if
we adopt the new plan in Oklahoma that our order will "flourish like
a green bay tree" that it is successful in other states. Here is a clipping
from the Pennsylvania Workman of December, the last copy issued.
TWO WAYS.
December Pennsylvania Workman.
Since the adoption of the new plans our members have practically
done nothing toward the increase of our membership. Why they have
all "laid down" is a question we cannot answer, but we do know that it
is dangerous. Everv member in the order must also realize this. On
the assessment notice every month appears the names of at least
20 of our inernbers who have answered their last roll call.
The best showing of increase we have seen for many months was the
Roll of Honor in last month's issue of the paper and that only reached
a total of 20 while the deaths numbered 24. In the words of the popu-
lar song this looks like "All goin' out and nothin' comin' in.'.
This is right from the firing line of the first state to adopt the new
plan and as a member of the Grand Lodge 1 can see nothing in it that is
attractive to me and I believe its adoption would paralyze the order in
this jurisdiction.
Fraternallv Submitted In C. II. & P.
S. L. JOHNSON.
Mr. John A. McCall Indictment
of Himself.
(New York American.)
Has John A, MCCall even a rudi-
mentary moral sense?
The question is made pertinent by
the testimony he has been giving be-
fore the Armstrong- Committee in the
last week.
He fails to see anything improper
in taking' the money of the policy-
holders to aid the fortunes of a polit-
ical party which he favored.
One hundred and fifty thousand dol-
lars went that way. But no vote of
the expenditure appears on the books
of the company. Mr. McCall savs he
sees nothing wrong in that. He thinks
the late treasurer of the company cov
ered the matter by deducting the va-
rious political payments from the pro-
fits of certain deals and entering the
latter as $50,000, or thereabouts, less
than they actually were.
This system doesn't seem to awaken
any indignation on the part of Mr.
McCall. To him it appears all right
to doubly falsify the books of his
company, at first omitting any entry
of heavy expenditures, and afterward
entering false figures as to profits. In-
deed, when the government of a great
state of the Union made inquiries of
Mr. McCall concerning rumored polit-
ical contributions he first offered with
becoming frankness to permit an ex-
amination of the books, and later,
supplied affidavits that no contribu-
tions had been made.
The books and the affidavits were
equally lying. Since the books have
been falsified thus in three confessed
instances, what possible reliance can
he placed upon them in any instance?
If an official could divert $150,000 ti
the Republican National Committee
without recording it in anv way, who
can tell how much officials may have
diverted into their own poekets? It
would seem, too, that a man of a nice
sense of honor, a man safely to be
intrusted with the most sacred savings
which our people strive to collect,
would hardly take for himself, his son.
his son-in-law and his brother-in-law
$137,500 annually in the guise of sal-
aries. How much more the McCall
family, big and little, may have mad 1
out of their private snap in the New
York Life can only he guessed. That
there were other profits seems to be
fairly indicated by the faet that Mc-
Call borrowed $70,000 of the Metro-
polian Life "cnir'at one and a half
per cent, keeping the money two
years; and gave a quid pro quo by
lending Mr. Hegeman, president of the
Metropolitan, fifty thousand of New
York Life fund at a similar rate.
If you want to get a picturesque
and impressive idea of the usual in-
surance rates, go to either of these
companies and try to borrow enough
to pay your next premium. You will
not find any one-and-one-half per cent
money waiting for you. But great
financiers must hold together, even at
the expense of the policy-holders.
In five years, Mr. McCall, as respon-
sible head of the New York T.tfe has
disbursed almost nine hundred thous-
and dollars through 'Judge' Hamilton
for the purpose of influencing legisla-
tion. Mr. McCall is an old-time Al-
bany official. He knows what 'influ-
encing' means. Indeed, he knows so
well that Hamilton disbursing th'irf
huge sum, was never asked to render
an accounting. It was thought the
part of wisdom for the respectable fi-
nanciers at headquarters to he conven-
iently ignorant of what their lohyist
was doing. But the fact that they
charged two hundred and thirty-five
thousand to a 'yellow dog' fund seems
to indicate that they were not with-
out their suspicions.
We need not mince matters. Much
of this money, so painfully scraped to-
gether by policy holders, was doubt-
less used for hold and criminal brib-
ery. The tool employed is not im-
portant.. The vital fact is that the
responsible management of this great
company connived at the criminal of-
fense. And today the president shows
no sign of moral compunctions.
We hold that in no business calling
should there be a higher order of In-
tegrity, a nicer sense of personal and
business honor than in the business
of life insurance. But Mr. McCall has
admitted garbling and falsifying the
books of the company, maintaining a
corruption fund to influence legisla-
tion, taking the policy-holder's mon°y
for political purpose, enriching him-
self and his immediate family with
extravagant salaries, and using the
funds of the society for personal
profit.
He ought to be speedily kicked out
and the kick should land him before
a grand jury.
NO AT.IBI.
"Tell me truh . Am I the only girl you
ever loved?" he gurgled.
The young lawyer blushed and hesi-
tated. "I must decline to answer that
question," he faltered.
"Why?" she demanded, more in sorrow
than in anger.
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Johnson, S. L. The Oklahoma Workman (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 1, Ed. 1 Monday, January 1, 1906, newspaper, January 1, 1906; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc274546/m1/3/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.