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Show AMERICAN FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS. ORGAN-IZATIONS. On October 1st a leading insurance journal published the statement that the principal benefit societies of this country Tiad together paid death benefits bene-fits amounting to $1,299,699,705. There had also been paid sick benefits amounting to $408,519,023, making a grand total of ?1,70S,21S,728. It Is estimated es-timated that tho average death benefit bene-fit was $1500, ao that 8C6.000 families have been direct beneficiaries of this system of insurance, A busy world gives little, heed to theso striking figures. In the whirlpool whirl-pool of strife and ambition the great work which has been accomplished dj American fraternal organizations attracts at-tracts but little attention, and yet every great and noble action has fraternity fra-ternity for Its surest and safest stays. Indeed, it Is the very essence of our faith In American institutions. It-has been one of tho Important welding influences in-fluences In war of every contending host. In even' social reform and every ev-ery march of Industrial progress, class distinction and arrogant assumption, of authority molt beneath the power of fraternallsm. In a word It is the bulwark of American institutions. James Byram in National Magazine. |