Show I S AS TO Tim TIlE or OP LIFE urK INSURANCE At a recent meeting meeting- of officers and agents ag of tho the Nj f w York Life Lifo Insurance company lIe tho president delivered ll an m address from which the tho following paragraph Is taken The Tho future of American life Insurance is as certain as ns tho the future of American civilization cI It must go o on because conjugal affection will go o on It fits Into the tho plans of a n hus busy world and this is a very er busy bu world Life js is more productive more generous more effective sweeter happier values are more certain securities more abundant and better than ever before American life In Insurance In- In with all Its faults has seen the opportunity and he the need and has splendidly am answered w red both hath Ther Therefore fore it il must go 10 on en it deserves es to go o on because when whon subjected d to the severest tests It Is found to tn have been heen honest honl t. t sound and In tn the th highest sen sense e u useful eul It mu must t go o on hee because It performs now ow and is able ahle to perform o. o function In civilization ci which has not been given l en to any n other busi busi- 1 ne ness s. s I So far as the future futuro of lIr life Insurance Is concerned the speaker eaker was right It 1 is h going to live because It should live 11 Men who care for their wives wi and children will continue to insure their own lives ll that t the e lives live of wife and md child may ho bo safeguarded when the h heart all of th the family tamn is taken a away But tho the revelations re of oC the past I three years ears are by no means to be viewed as originating in malice J or terminating in dl disaster aster The prosecutions prosecutions originated In the desire of men to tog tot g got get t their insurance as s secure cure as it had h hee been en In inthe the past 1 S 1 V V S a and d' d dt at t a apr price oal oa a l little l more re r reasonable J It originated i ht i In Inthe inthe In the tho desire of the insured that the thc excessive earnings of the companies be applied to the credit of ot tho those e who made tho the companies possible tho possible tho Insured and not furnish h forth funds fund for favored to squander Life LICe insurance is all right and proper and rea reasonable The The prosecutions have lave probably stripped from It the evils eUs that had attached The business h s Is better hetter and Fater than ever before It I Is honest and sound and in the hl highest sense use use- ful tul S Anti And An it can achieve no other character without a return return re rc- re- re turn to the practices and abuses which made the pro prose prose- necessary sar c. c |