Show A SINGULAR BENEFIT association IN our advertising columns appears a notice of an insurance company called the fidelity benefit Ag association we have been asked to endorse it and explain its advantages on close examination we have failed to find any particular benefit it is ilk lik likely ely to confer upon those who become members of the association we can see wherein pecuniary benefits will accrue to its projectors and agents but this will not materially assist the public the directors of the company are illinois men with the exception of one who is the manager and agent for utah and a member of the church we have nothing to assy about them or either of them personally what we desire to direct attention to is the principle of the concern A person taking out a policy pays to the company from twelve to fifteen dollars entrance fee and receives in return a piece of paper called a policy or certificate if a member of the association dies all the other member are assessed from one dollar an and d a half to three dollars each the amount thus assessed less fifty cents per member which goes to the company is to be paid to the person in whose favor the policy is made out this assessment money is not handled by the company it goes into info bank through gha a member who is designated to deposit iland thus the company is sayed from any trouble or responsibility in relation to it the question that naturally arises is what do the people who engage in this affair receive in return for tile tiie twelve or fifteen dollars given to the gentlemanly maui mani y agent and the half dollar a head assessments the answer is nothing at all at least that is the only answer that we can find to the question the fidelity benefit association seems to be fraught with great benefit to those who manage to gather up the entrance fees but none at all to the payers of the cash we were informed by the agent that ile he has insured as he terms term s it several hundred of our people in the north including include inc ludin iudin 3 some pra prominent gentlemen we could have secured a standing in the concern without expense as we learn some others have done but we are of opinion that this wo would ula uia simply give an opportunity to use certain names as inducements to simple people to hand over their twelve or fifteen dollars do liars for the benefit of the enterprising gentlemen who have started the concern if any of 0 our lir friends are anxious to assist persons traveling around the country by giving them money in this way wax of course we can offer no objection but bat we would like them to understand our views on this matter and if they give their cash away to do it with their eyes open the tact fact that th the e advertisement ti appears in the NEWS is not any endorsement of the concern any more than a quack medicine notice in our columns is a recommendation to swallow the nostrums strums no therein 0 tiered offered for sale an advertisement is like a sign painted on a board the painter is not for tiie tile genuineness of the article attention to which is thus directed we consider it our duty to explain the nature of this fidelity association and leave the matter to the good sense of the public |