empower this committee to bring action at once to compel full restitution and enforce full punishment, and then to change the present method of conducting the insurance business.
The vital question is: Whom can the policy-holders trust to do this?
The "Big Three" are at present spending vast sums of the policy-holders' money to prevent some such action as this, in the following ways:
First, by moulding public opinion through paid news and editorial items; next, by the collection of proxies; and third, by the inauguration of different moves and dummy suits and investigations.
There are already three of these affairs under way. Almost any way the policy-holders turn for relief they are confronted with traps which, if they fall into them, will make relief and rescue impossible.
Any man or body of men who go to the great expense necessary to collect proxies must have some hidden scheme