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The Safety Fund Law provides: for the creation of funds from Net Profits, by which larger sums are secured for the payment of losses in great conflagrations; for the payment of such larger sums on demand, and without the intervention of Receivers, and for the complete protection of holders of policies on property outside of the burned district. The dividends of the Company are limited by the Safety Fund Law to 7 per cent per annum, upon the amount of its capital, and of those funds formed of its profits. The income from investments largely exceeds this amount of dividend. The balance of interest, and all the profit of its business, go to the increase of the Safety Fund. 66 We mean to make these Safety Funds as large as the entire profits of the business and the remoteness of the next great fire will permit." GEO. T. HOPE, President. H. H. LAMPORT, Vice-Pres. Fellow-Democrats! the result of the political battle to be joined during the coming twelvemonth will determine the character and bent of our Democratic institutions for many a future year will restore prosperity to the people or involve our shattered industries in a still more disastrous overthrow. "Grantism" in the Federal Government-"Hard Times' from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coaststhese are the achievements of the party, this is the plain outcome of the principles of the party which has now fallen from the hands of its founders into the control of its corruptionists and the lead of a President who regards his acceptance of the chief magistracy as a "personal sacrifice" to be rewarded by an unprecedented lease of power. Democratic institutions can not survive the domination of such as these, the avowed partisans of Centralization in Government, of Monop oly in Trade, and of Chicanery in Finance. They were routed along the whole line in 1874 by the masses of the great North and West marching under the old Democratic flag of HARD MONEY, FREE TRADE, AND HOME RULE! That flag-the flag of Madison, and of Jefferson, and of Jackson-raised anew in this banner State of New-York as the sign of victory in 1874, still floats in the front of the Democratic hosts. Elsewhere, under influences to be forever regretted, but not, we trust, to be renewed, it wavered in unsteady hands at points in the line of 1875, where it should have been more high advanced than ever. What was the result? Confusion and disaster wherever that untarnished standard was missed from the field. In New-York alone, VICTORY, and a foothold triumphantly kept against overwhelming odds, for the final assault soon to be made upon a party swollen with the corruptions of its own long misgovernment, and relying upon the sordid fealty of an army of 80,000 office-holders. Who can misunderstand the lessons of 1875? 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