The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1846-11-06
TIE RoT7gstsslr.Ds' EalTll.

TIE RGT7!sCsEgr.Ds' Eii!TEs.
T'EPtrITs Of mans SYSTEM,
The Rothschilds have fortune Of
one hundred and fifty millions ofdol,
lars, and Lord somebody, who has
lately died in England, has left for
tune Of fifty millions Of dollars. Tho
the RothscIilds operate in Paris and
London, yet Frankfort, Vienna, and
other Gcrmon cities, have been and
are the principal theatre Of their bu-
siness. And in what has this bust
ness consisted? In buying and sell
ing stocks, in negotiating loans, or
standing between lender and bor-
rover, and receiving payment for
transacting their mutual business
We urge nothing against this bust
ness, as we participate in no vulgar
and groundless prcjudices against
brokers. They hold the same posi-.
ton between borrowers and lenders
or buyers and sellers of money and
evidences of debt, with merchants
between producers and consumers.
Like merchants, they arc distriGu-
tors. But we do complain Of the sys-
TEN which tduces millions to eX-
trcme poverty, and all its consequent
miSerics, and enables one man or
family to amaSs, in single genera
ton, one hundred and fifty millions
of dollars. Ten thousand dollars
invested in farm, mechanical
trade. or in commerce, will afford an
ample provision to family of mod
crate numbers, and is more than most
farmers, mechanics or merchants
possess, even in our country of gen
eral distribut OF. The wealth of the
RothSclilds thus divided, would sup
ply fifteen thousand such families.
Divided in portions of five thousand
dollars, more than the ma iority of
our farmers and mechanics possess,
it would supply thirty thousand such
families, and at the rate Of five per-
sons to each family, would afford,
with reasonable labor, all the COM
forts of life to one hundred and fifty
thousand persons. Hence one hun
drcd and fifty thousand persons must
be reduced from comfort to absolute
restitution, to enable one family to
own one hundred and fifty millions
of dollars Such a system is awful,
The statistics of Berlin, the capital
of Prussia, with population of $685.
900, show about Sereniy thousand
p0uperS and crimi20is, the latte.
being driven to crime by poverty
And whence this enormous poverty?
1t is produced by bad government,
producing standing armies, royal
luxury, governmental loans, paper
money, stock markets, monopolics
of land and money, landed barons
and rag barons. And how many
paupcrS and criminals are found in
the British Isles? The question
can be answered BY lis blooted bar
ons, landed and ragged. And we
arc rapidly building up the system
One individual in the east can own
five millions of acres in the west, and
thereby compel thirty-one thousand,
two hundred and fifty men to remain
landleSs p0upers, instead Of bccom-
ing Independent farmers. And a
bank can lend seven hundred thouS
and dollars to another Contemplating
person" to speculate in stocks, while
it will not discount a responsible me-
chances note Tor five hundred dol
lars. And so we 90, building up a
system that builds up Rothschilds
and paupcrs And where will il
end? Just where it las ended in
England and Germany. And where
/ will that end? Just where it ended
in France in 1850! Like causes,
operating upon like subjects, always
produce like effects. So God has
j dccrecd, and so man cannot repeal
These Rothschilds, while accumula-
ting one hundred and fifty millions
Of dollars from the pockets of others