Show GAMBLING GAMBLI G WITH DEATH EATH ArK N NOW Ml OW THAT KING KI G EDWARD D has hasLi Li recovered re oV red or practically recovered the life insurance companies of Eng England England England land will wiil haVe a chance to tb cHuckle over their increased s d profits pr tIts And this brings out some thoughts about the English people in no riO other nation nution under the sun would it be pos possible possible possible sible for citizens to gamble publicly on ont the t e life of their monarch or their chief chie official I England went money mad over oyer the Illness of or Edward Insurance to the amount of 2 Was ivas placed d on the kings life Ufe by his loving Joving subjects The only way they could hope hone to win in was for fol the king to die did di ObViOusly Ills his con continued continued Untied existence wipes Ipes out ut all aU upper opportunity for them to profit It is most astonishing th that t such s c transactions should be p As is well known in the United States no man can insure the life of another unless he can clearly clearl show he has some interest t other than financial in the individual insured The temptation to fraud is too great the possibilities of crime too numerous numerous It Itis ItIs itis is a good goodo rule too tap t and it should be continued cont in force as mes s long Ion as life liCe In Insurance insurance companies are re in existence ct In England on the other band hand Britons calmly wagered that thab the king would or would not die according as their fancy dictated There re is something som thing In this which is ext Jel repugnant nt to the American coda codd of ot ethics It Is hard to ta believe that any individual who lIo stood to win money by b the th death ot or the king lUn would hasten his exit from this mortal sphere Few F w of them perhaps even een indulged the hope that the sovereign would die but in the minds ot of some there must have hae crept a thought like this Well If Ke lie has to die I hope hell hen die before my insurance term ex cx expires expires pires piret u Rather col blooded that but it must have happened more than once Suppose when President Pres dent McKInley was showdown oho shoe down at Buffalo a prominent gambler had offered to make a Ia betting book on his chances chan for life Ufe Would not an a Indignant populace have h e driven him out of at the country countr Yet that is practically what the English Englis life Ufe in insurance companies did in the case of or orthe the king ki g git It Is to be b hoped that the Britons will see the ghastly t sordidness of ot o this form of or gambling There Thera are so S many other wayS even In itt England through which money mone may be lost or won that decent people pe Ile e everywhere hope b the th practise pra tl may be stopped topp d Jj b I law jY if l necessary |