Show INSURANCE NCE AND WAR VIAR I 1 we are jn in receipt of two issued by the new york lire life insurance company the one onyx in substance under date of april that those holding insurance in the five company who join the military or naval set eer vice and have to leave leavea tho the united states must pay nt at the homo home office 5 per cent of the face of the policy or in the event 0 thele their death la in the tropics tropic within a year from the date of the circular per cent will be paid on their the limitation Is to lost last one year 1 the second circular Is issued by the director of the company jn in europe bad the director in spain which in substance nays naya that no restrictions it aa re put upon that they may hs be assured tn in advance that it 1 they die in the war var their full policies win will be A gentleman jent loman sends us these two dr clr colars and asks aike our opinion of the them in rod and hat reason could induce a great company to so BO discriminate against tho the men of the united states find and in favor of 0 the men of 0 spain of course we do not know but presume it was waa because the company reasoned that those who are nr already insured in spain or who w he aro are liable to be are not liable able to go eo to t the west indies and that it feared an epidemic among united states troops it if sent to the tropics the rank and file 1310 in spanish armies aamli l are not insured the rank and lla file sa 11 the united states army would be liable to take out insurance before going south bouth we aire suspect it was an absolutely cold business bufil neBi calculation ith the company nut but there Is 9 an other feature which it Is 1 more dini Cult to understand ir if we remember rightly the now york life ike through irh its if president tit at the beginning of the war tendered A loan ot of to tile tl government on tiny any terms which the government might denominate it re received much advertising th ish this oner offer but in this circular prepared tor for spain it refers to the war wap and thon then says an event so 0 o unfortunate and which to the company i in utterly with lah it many losses an well from rom 11 in a 1 I as ad from a material point ot of i lew etc ot of course coure it if that meant anything it t waa van as an assurance that the new york life did aid not approve of 0 thi the var that it was an impeach impeachment ot of the government of tile the unit united d staten ette tor for not avoiding avold loff any var m at d token taken in connection with the th tender of 0 the ir IQ it vaa sas ft a clear case cage rt nf carrying N 1 tin im both boulo still this Is in not qt unnatural under the eastern code cod of lo out tor for no 1 the company ts is eni faget exclusively in bu busidan sinan on lia its own count it la Is it a question of pure intellect and exact mal ther naties find and there to la neither sympathy nor sentimentality nor any concealment ceal ment of native gall in tile conduct of cf that business |