The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-01
Anxious to Get Away From the
Cares and Responsibilities
of Office.
NOW DISGUSTED AT
INSURANCE METHODS
Business and Politics Mixed Up
in Clever Review of E.X-
listing Conditions.
Special to The Tribune.

/ Special TO The Tribune.
! NEW YORK, June 30.-It sounds
| like a Joke, but some of the daily news
papers are taking seriously and to heart
the election of Darwin p Kingsley to
the post of president of the New York
Life Insurance company. One weekly
newspaper which has little hopes of be
ing allowed TO print the statement of
the New York Life Insurance company
at 81 per line this year even declares
that when the history of the "Decline
and Fall of the American Empire is
written la GIbbon that it can be dated
from the period Of the ascension of
Kingsley TO the throne or presid ency
of New York Life--that the people are
beaten to q standstill-that they are
putting every little petty CRATER right
back where he was when the great fife
insurance upheaval started; that it is
as the restoration after the days of
Cromwell or the return of the kings,
( princes and lords TO their thrones in
1915. after the French revolution and
Napoleon. On the other hand. great Re-
publican newspapers like the New York
Tribune, supposed TO still represent the
ID. o. Mills interests, and the New York
Evening Mail supposed to represent the
Vanderbilt interests, print long edito-
rlals declaring that tine selection is an
ideal one and that the New York Life
policyholders In particular as we'll as
the public in general ought to be happy
over the improved outlook. Indeed.
mon Of the type Of Jacob Schiff of
Kuhn, Loeb & Co.. who has made mil
lions out Of the sale of stocks and
bonds for the life insurance companies,
but whose heart is as big ms his purse
and whose purse has always been wide
open to the Republicans and the reform
ers-who has not been afraid to draw
his check for tens and tens, If not
hundreds, Of thousands, for the purpose
Of financing any movement looking TO
the defeat of the Tammauy Tiger, and
who is In that respect one OF New
York IS most useful citizens, declares
that the financial situation is improv.
ing and that things are coming out all
rigbi provided only the powers that he
will keep hands off the situation.
Roosevelt Discouraged,
Under these. circumstances and con-
ditions. perhaps, there is something in
the statement Of q member of che
Roosevelt family who has Just paid a
visit TO the President of the United
Roosevelt declares that he has known
"Tbeodore' all Of his life and that he
has never seen him so downhearted and
discourag ged. He says that not only
does the President declare that he is
not candidate, but that he is as sin
cere as can be when he says it. The
reason is found III the fact that when
the President looks al what he ''hss
tried to do and what he has really
accomplished, he is really at heart sick
and tired of it all, and he wants TO get
away from the cares and the response
bilities of the Presidential office Just as
quick as possible. If he could be con
viuced that the things that he has al
tempted have any real economic use II
might be different, but now, IN spite
Of the revelations IN connection with
the life insurance investigation. even the
Republican party has not taken any ac-
tion that will really amount to any
thing in connection with campaign
funds in the future, and III a year or
two worse condition Of affairs Is
likely to spring up than marked the
last two or three years-well, the Pres
ident feels. il is said. that after all
his strenuous efforts nothing has been
accomplished that viii stand the test
Of time.
Tho bitterness OF the situation was
perhaps reflected in the New York
World, which said that IL was logically
inevitable that Mr.. Kingsley should
have been indicted or else that he
should havo been promoted TO the post
made vacant for time By thc resigna-
tion and death of his fathcrin law, the
late John A. Mccall. The World, III
This editorial declared that Kingsley
was one of the men that - Andy" Ham
iltou pointed the finger of scorn at
when he made his sensational legisla-
tive confession al Albany Perhaps
the sting of the editorial. however, hes
in the assertion Of the World, that. aft.
er all Of this agitation-after all OF
the life insurance revelation-if the
nolicyholders are willing TO do this sort
of n thing, il is not the business or
thc state Of New York TO act as the
Guardian of male adult citizens.
Property Is Robbery.
Tho New York Press. Republican, but
one of the most independent of the
daily newspapers of New York, prints
a three line editorial at the head OF It's
columns Without calling any names,
but with reference so clcar'cut and
;nr;siyc that .hc who runs may read.
tho New Nor; Press in this particular
eJi,or;.l saws that if the time ever
comes in this country when the people
become. convinced that property is rob,
bcry the great captains OF industry VIII
have nobody TO blame except them
selves However. perhaps the most
clear,sightcd vision of what has really
bannonrd comes from Philadelphia,
n,hnre one Of the daily papers IN an
other thrcc-liuc editorial declares that
.rtcr all the tumult and the shouting
in connection with the bfe insurance
rnyolatious and the sessions of the Arm
strong committee. about all that ap-
'nars IN have been accomplished IS the
aIertion of one Charles F.. Hughes as
...a.,nnnI n1i Pacc Three.