The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 1, 1917, Page 13

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AR They Can’t “Line Up”'Olsness Insurance Companies Are Campaigning to Pre- vent State Ownership of Insurance—But They Met a Stone Wall benefit to the people. VIDENCE of a national cam- paign on the part of the great insurance - companies of the East ' to' oppose state-owned " and operated insurance, being put in effect under government super- vision in most of the European nations for the benefit of ill-paid working peo- ple, is given by a letter received re- cently by S. A. Olsness, elected com- missioner of insurance by the farmers of North Dakota. The Casualty Review, an insurance organ, suggests ‘that if 'Mr. "Olsness would take a stand in active opposition to compulsory insurance it would be ‘of great interest to the accident and health insurance company officers and agents” who are shaking in their shoes . for fear of government insurance. It is a well known fact that the old line insurance companies maintained an active lobby at Washington in an attempt to prevent the government from putting into effect a plan of in- surance for the American soldiers and sailors during the war, The bill was finally amended so as to get rid of much of their opposition, it being un- derstood that it is to last only during the war, but they still think it sets a “bad precedent.” LETTER TO OLSNESS TELLS THE STORY The letter of the Casulty Review to Mr. Olsness shows that the insurance companies have been able to line up some of the state insurance commis- sioners and are after others. This is the letter to Mr. Olsness: THE CASUALTY REVIEW Chicago, Oct. 18, 1917. _ 8. A. Olsness, Com. of Ins, Bismarck, N. D. Dear Sir: % At the recent St. Paul meeting of the Insurance Commissioners President Phillips of. New York State urged members of the con- vention to actively oppose compul- sory welfare (health, accident, etc.) insurance. All civilized countries are moving toward state-owned and oper- ated insurance for old age, unemployment, health, ete. In the _Umted States many states already have state-owned and operated insurance for workers in hazardous occupations, called state *‘in- dustrial insuranee’’. There is a move in this country for state- owned compulsory crop insurance, taking the form of hail insur- ance in the spring wheat states. sfcartgd to consider the many branches of social insurance effec- tive in other countries. But already the billion-dollar insurance monopoly of the United States is lining up every person, every in- terest and every public official against this extension of the pow- ers of government, to prevent government from being of more real The billion-dollar private monopoly is getting too much profit out of the insurance game to give it up without a fight. It doesn’t matter how badly this kind of public insurance is needed in the United States—it is merely a matter of THEIR PROFIT; they can’t see beyond that point. This story tells how an insurance commissioner elected by the peo- ple—by the farmers through the Nonpartisan league—answered these insurance profiteers, when they approached him to line him up against the people in the matter of social insurance of various kinds. How many other states have insurance com- missioners of this kind ? This country has only just insurance Have you done anything along this line or are you planning to? That is have you in public address- es spoken against the scheme; have you sent out any special bulletins on the subject or touched on it in your regular bulletins? We would not only like to hear from-you’ on the subject but also receive copies of any comments, spoken or written that you may have made. Such will be of great interest to the accident and health insurance company officers and agents who read the Casualty Re- view. Thanking you your reply, | am, Very truly yours, (Signed) C. W. VAN BEYNUM, Editor. However, the insurance companies have NOT succeeded in lining up Mr. Olsness, who was elected by the North Dakota farmers through their Non- partisan league. This is Mr. Olsness’ reply: ¥ in advance for Bismarck, Oct. 23, 1917. Mr. C. W. Van Beynum, Chicago, lllinois. Dear Mr, Van Beynum: In reply to yours of the 18th inst., relative to compulsory welfare in- surance and my attitude towards it, | beg to state that | have not written or spoken (publicly) for or against this subject. May state, however, that from what general knowledge | have concerning this branch of insur- ance, and the adoption of it in most of the civilized countries, | lean strongly toward some plan of fed- eral or state insurance to take care of especially the laboring people, in a manner similar to that of the railroad companies or the Interna- tional Harvester Co., and | believe it must come, perhaps soon. Yours very truly, S. A, OLSNESS, Insurance Commissioner. Grain Elevators Put On Bank Basis Inspection Under New Law Goes Into Effect in North Dakota OW would you like to be a grain farmer and know that all your grain in the elevator was just as safe as your money in the bank? It hasn’t always been that way in North Dakota. There have been elevator failures that have left farmers in the lurch as badly as banks that closed their doors—and there were none to keep watch over them. The state and the nation have always supplied bank examiners, and the system has been salutary, but North Dakota is the first state to pro- vide for its elevators a similar kind of safety. The new system went into ef- fect October 18 for the first congres- sional district, and will go into effect for the second and third at intervals of about 80 days. There has for a number of years been a law on the statute books that gave the railroad commission authority to demand an increase of the liability bond for elevators that seemed to owe additional security to their storage ticket holders, but there was no means of knowing which elevators these were. B _TTHIR There is a flat $5000 bond demanded of all elevators doing storage business, but this has seldom been sufficient. Only once in the history of the state has an elevator manager offered to in- crease his bond. "When he did it took the breath away from the officials who got his offer. 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