1875.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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Life Insurance. 
It is the common error of those who thought¬ 
lessly or maliciously attack our Life Insurance 
Companies, to forget that the whole system of 
Life Insurance has attained its present proportions 
through the operation of one simple element—and 
that is, the prudential foresight which impels the 
husband and the father, to make timely provision for 
the comfort of the family he is to leave behind him 
at his death. In other words, it is the confidence 
of the general public in the security offered by our 
great Life Companies, that explains the rapid and 
continued expansion of this important interest. 
The case has been very cleverly and succinctly 
stated by the Insurance Commissioner of Mas¬ 
sachusetts, in his Report for the year 1872, when 
he says : “ Savings Banks meet a real want, as well 
as Life Insurance Companies, and yet their intro¬ 
duction and multiplication have been steady and 
gradual, not quick and sudden. Life Insurance 
has been successfully introduced into other coun¬ 
tries besides America, without attaining the gigan¬ 
tic proportions already reached in our own—a fact 
from which many suggestive lessons may be drawn.” 
The increase in this country during the three 
years from 1869 to the end of 1871, was : 
In the number of Life Insurance Companies. 14 
In the number of Policies outstanding. 177,737 
In the amount insured.$332,710,059 
—showing that there was a steady increase of the 
number of policy-holders during the years 1869, 
1870, and 1871, at the average rate of upward of 
55,000 annually, and a corresponding increase 
equal to One hundred and Ten Millions of Dollars 
annually, in the amount insured. 
It is, therefore, manifestly but an idle waste of 
breath, to attempt to throw discredit upon an 
interest so important as this. The bitterness of 
the attacks, which have occupied the columns of 
the public press for some time past, may be chari¬ 
tably attributed to private or personal grievances, 
with which the public has nothing to do, and for 
which it cares very little—yet when so many bold 
attempts have been made to shake the faith of the 
insured in the stability of the insurers, it is but 
common justice to remember that the Life Insur¬ 
ance system in the United States, has attained its 
present dimensions because it commends itself to 
the good sense of a sagacious people, and that 
that people do not continue their support from 
year to year, without having sound ressons for the 
faith that is in them. 
It is the steady growth, the uniform fair dealing, 
the undoubted security, and the prudent manage¬ 
ment of such old companies as the United States 
Life of this City, that upholds and continually 
strengthens this faith. 
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TRIUMPH. 
The triumph of Wheeler & Wilson, at the Ameri¬ 
can Institute, New York, with their New No. 6 Sewing- 
machine, was remarkable In many respects. A powerful 
influence was brought to bear against a favorable award. 
Additional judges were ordered of known proclivities 
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