The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-20
BIOGRAPHY OF DR.. HATCHER

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Democracy or Autocracy.
That nationality has reached ats
limit and must for the security of the
world has put second to huma nifty
and brotherhood Is q doctrine which
Mr.. Darwin +. Kingsley, president
of the New York Life Insurance Com.
pany is ably expounding In an ad-
dress before the Berkshire County
(Mass.) University Club Mr.. KinRs-
ley developed the idea THAT life In
snrance is force making for the
brotherhood OF mankind. as II ex-
tends beyond national lines and takes
in men OF all realms, races. colors
and creeds. He believes in a league
of nations based, like life insurance.
an world ..iftyepSb3r Tho xy1-l1
Mr. Kingsley remarked. had grown
very small, owing to the progress ~
humanity, and there was at the out.
break of the great war in Europe.
according to the nationality principle.
actually lack of room. In It's inter-
national relations the world was iv.
ing in an age Of pure savagery. With )
III the bounds OF each nation there was
safety. good order ard Justice. but
In international relations there was
peril to every citizen of every nation.
Eight great powers each claimed to
obey no law but its own. Conditions
which put all mankind in instant
touch should nave brought about q
better understanding between men.
But outside of life insurance and
some phases OF commerce nothing %
the kind had happened The devel-
opment Of science. the growth OF COM
merce and other factors OF progress
had been perverted to multiply imple-
ments of war and death and to create
remorseless cruelty in human hearts.
Internationally we are now, In Mr..
kinesley's view, in a period blackef
than the dark ages. Every man ap-
pears TO live In two worlds, one civil
iized. the other savage. Unless the
people of the globe organize and civil
ize The international overworld. and
create a new order on the basis OF
humanity. Germans. or some other
people believing as the Germans do.
will. he predicted. prevail and estab-
lish a universal empire. We must
have either autocracy or democracy.
Mr.. Kingsley insisted that democracy
must and will organize the world ac-
cofding to the law Of life insurance.
whissa is the law ef brotherhood. Let
the nations be 80 orga nixed and there
will be room enough for all on the
earth and to spare,-Chariton Bates
in Ieslie's.