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THE TItl'E SOUTHRON, Established June, ISM
Con*?l*dated Aag. 2.18H1.
8?MTER. 8. C. WEDNE SDAY. MARCH 31, U>09.
Sew Series-Vol. XXIX. No 11
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(Collection No 101?
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INj? K\M1 COMMISSIONER M<
M ASTER ISSUES OltDF.lt
Ui \ I\ST SOITIIEKN
II it-:.
North fanden Company Tluit \\ a??
Mlaed In ih?- SVminole Deal Ha*
Bern Outlawed In South Carolina
By Revocation of I .Urn ????.
Columbia. March 27 In a rlsjofofef
letter 10 the .Southern Life In-<uran ??
<( Peyettevllle. N. C. < !om
aslaalener M> Master Informs in.
eera of th it concern that Its llcen-c
to engage in business In thla Kt.it. is
revoked. Mr. McMaster taken thla
aeeloa after severs) heatings given by
him to the officers of the company.
Although the time for the renewal of
licenses Is April 1. the commissioner
does not feel that he should wait until
the eppUcstlon of the company was
brought up again, but should take
eosne action on his order Issued at mo
time ago to the company to show
cause ?h) Its license should not be
revoked.
<fh? facia In the csae sre genenlly
familiar The controlling Intereat In
the ?outh?m life Insursnce Company
was purchased by the Seminole Se?
curities Company of this city, the
price paid for the stock being In ex?
cess of Its par value and alleged to be
far In excess of Its market value. The
transactions of the sale were conduct?
ed through General Manager C. J. i
Cooper of the insurance company and
B. W. Lacy, the actuary, and C. J.
Hebert, one of the principal stock
promoters of the Seminole Securities
Company. It was charged that enor?
mous commissions were paid in the
transfer.
When these matters came out in the
I proceedings brought against the Sem
j bsOle Securities Company, Mr. McMas
I ter ordered the insurance company to
I show cause why its license should not
be revoked. Two or three hearings
were held. Mr. McMaster states In
his letter that he has no desire to
alarm the pollcyholders, but the evi?
dence shows that enormous commis?
sions were paid those directly inter?
ested in the deal, the other officers
and directors of the Southern Life
I ornpany being in ignorance of the
details. The deal he says "is per?
meated with evidences of stock Job?
bing and hUh finance." and both
Lacy and Cooper are condemned as
?leg u:iworthy of the management of
such a I>m?rn.
The ItttST to the insurance com
1 any is us follows:
"The BOIIthOrn Life Insurance Cum
i* 11 >. FgyettevlUe, n. c.
"Deel Siis In the matter of the
rule Issued atcalnst your company to
sh'.u cause why its license to do busl
In totlth Carolina should not hi
revoked) returnable on January IS,
and by continuance until March 2:
I ? i? to the fact that from the evi?
dence before me, and from the best
obtainable Information the policy
holders in the Southern Life Insur?
ance Company are protected by the
deposits In the hands of the insur?
ance commissioner of North Carolina
and other assets of the company, I
have felt that It was not necessary to
take more prompt action In thla mat
ter, nor did I desire to alarm the
minds of the policyholders unduly,
which would have been done if posi?
tive action had been taken during the
time of uneasiness caused by revela?
tions of the dealing with the Seminole
Securities Company and the legal pro?
ceedings incident thereto. But 1 do
feel that it is a duty this department
owes to the public to make a declara?
tion on the subject.
"I make no criticism of the several
general officers, the executive com?
mittee or the board of directors of the
company, who were in ignorance of
the dealings between Mr. C. J. Coop?
er, treasurer and general manager of
the company, and Mr. C. J. Hebert,
appointed by him as sales agent of
the stock of the company, and Mr. B.
W. Lacy, vice president and actuary j
of the company, with the officers of j
the Seminole Securities Company,
these four parties being apparently
privy to the transactions of each oth?
er and more or less concerned there?
in. Indeed, there is no conclusive evi?
dence of the fact that the other officers
of the company had any means of J
knowing of the dealings of C. J. Coop?
er and B. W. tmVSfi Jr., with the other
parties named. The evidence goes to
prove that the executive committee
gnd dlrtOOra of the Southern Life
Insurance Company were Intention?
ally kept in ignorance of the pur*
pose snd extent of the dealings of C?
j. Coopsr and B. W, lacy with C. J.
Hebert und the offloeri of the semi?
nole Securities Compary.
"Without going Into the details of
the matter other than to say that the
offering to make, by C. J. Cooper,
general manager Of the Southern Life
Insurance Company, a contract with
Ci J. Hebert for the PllS Of stock in
the Southern Life Insurance Com?
pany, before same wai authorized by
the stockholders of tho Southern Life
Insurance Company, and of making
Of this contract with C. J. Hebert and
not reporting the same to the execu?
tive committee and directors of the
company, the dealings betweeen
Messrs. Cooper and Lacy on the one
side and Hebert and the Seminole Se?
curities Company on the other,
whereby enormous commissions were
to be paid and stock to be sold to the
public at enormous prices, indicate
an utter disregard of the principles of
fair dealing and were so far permeat?
ed with the essentials of stock jobbing
and disreputable high finance as to
utterly condemn C. J. Cooper and B.
W. Lacy as men unworthy of being
intrusted with the management of an
institution of such sacred and conser?
vative a nature as a life insurance
company.
"This department is of the opinion
that an institution in the hands of
two such men is unsafe and unreli?
able. Therefore, the license of the
Southern Life Insurance Company to
do business in this State is hereby re?
voked.
"Very truly,
"F. H. McMASTER,
"Insurance Commissioner.*'
HOLLAND AWAITS ROYAL HEIR.
Nation Is Beady to Celebrate KxpOCt
e:l Happy Event.
Amsterdam. Ma th 26.?The entire
Dutch nation is awaiting momentarily
the axpeoed .signal from the Royal
Palace announcing the birth Of an
heir to the throne. Preparation! have
been made to announce the event
With flag! by day and with colored
fire by night, and gunners are being
held In readiness to inform the pub?
lic of the advent of a Prince or a
Princess by the firing of cannon. Of?
ficials arc waiting in their homes or
offices in the expectancy of a hasty
summons to he Palace formally to
chronicle the birth, while telegraph?
ers have beeen warned to be in readi?
ness for extra duty.
The new owners of Heelsfoot lake
have Offered to sell it to the State for
$75,000. They will probably be will?
ing to sell it for less, though, as they
are afraid to go near it.
DEBATE ON PROHIBITION.
MAYOR ROSE OF MILWAUKEE
DEFENDS SALE OF LIQUOR.
President of Albion College und Muni?
cipal Official Oppose Each Other in
Discussion at Milwaukee.
Milwaukee, March 26.?The first of
a series of remarkable debates was
held tonight on the question. "Re?
solved, That prohibition, as applied In
the manufacture and sale of intoxicat?
ing beverages is right." Mayor David
S. Rose of Milwaukee took the nega?
tive, and Dr. Samuel Dickie, president
of Albion college, Albion Mich., spoke
for the prohibitionists. The hippo?
drome, with a seating capacity of 6,
000, was jammed to the doors, and
throngs were turned away.
There was no decision rendered on
the debate.
Dr. Dickie said in part:
"The prohibition Of the liquor traf?
fic is right, if considered only from
the economic standpoint. The saloon
is the foe of capital, but preeminently
the enemy of labor.
"The liquor business I re< d;< crimi?
nals. The testimony of prison chap?
lains, of wardens, sheriffs and ji; I
of the criminal court- warrants thi
assertion that from BO to 10 per cent.
of crime is directly or Indirect!)
traceable to the use of Intoxicating
liquors."
En arguing that prohibition la
wrong, Mayor Ross treated the sub?
ject from three standpoints, the Bib?
lical, the ethical and the material. He
showed that while the evil existed
when then Ten Commandments were
written, no attempt was made to en?
force prohibition in the dOCalOfUS and
he challenged any one to find one
j word in the Bible advocating the
I theories of prohibitionists.
I He took ti e census figures of the
government and records of cities and
States to prove that prohibition did
not decerease crime, insanity, death,
domestic infelicity, pauperism and
stagnated business. He took the crim?
inal records of Milwaukee, a wide
open town, and showed that the ar?
rests per capita were fewer than ir*
the prohibition States of Maine, Kan?
sas and Georgia. He showed that
more drunkenness existed in Maine
f an in Wisconsin.
Mach wa? said about thewsanda ef
drunkards dying every year, he said,
but he quoted census figures to show
that more persons died of whooping,
cough and measles than of alcoholism.
The mayor showed that the bank
deposits of dry States were smaller
than the liquor States and said that
prohibition had been a laiiure where
ever tried, because it was impossible
to correct the ills and weaknesses of
human nature by laws. In the South
the theory had failed and liquor was:
j to be had there not orly by whites,
but by blacks, and a marked increase
I in the drug habit was noticeable.
The Veterans' Home.
Colombia, March 26.?There wilV
I e no "trouble about furnishing the
Home for Confederate Vetaraas judg?
ing from the aaaa with trafen coHeo
tions have been made within the past
few days for this purpose. TtH K
erai assembly appropriated Hs.ftJaVtP
the support of the Home, and the cm
derstandinf la thai the Home was to
e furnished, one of the fi:st checks
arrive area ffom a Charleston lady,
wh<> requested that her name be
withheld. Up to this morning. 155
was received for the cause, and the
Indications ore thai the amount nec
essary Will he raised in the next few
days The local Order of the Daugh?
ters of the Confederacy have raisedt
the amount which was subscribed By
them, and, with the other subscrip
tioni which are coming in, the Home
will soon be furnished.
Columbia State: "Let us go forwtrrdr
with more vim." This m the basebahT
not the football season.?Charlestons
News and Courier.