Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-04-16


without embarrassing myself in the least, |
can now return you the entire sum with five
per cent. interest"
The Prince was deeply moved.
"Meyer," he said, "You are the most
honorable Jew I have ever heard of. Keep
my money, and continue to operate with it.
From to day for two years want no return
of it, and only two per cent. interest"
And thus Rothschild became millionaire.
Old Meyer died in 1879. Before he died
he had his five SONS, Anslem, Solomon, Ma
than, Charles and James called to his bed
side They received his blessing, and swore
to him to be true to the law of Moses, never
to separate from each other, and never toun-
dertake a great enterprise without having
first obtained the counsel and advice Of their
mother.
"Observe we'll these points, and you will
soon be the richest among the rich, and the
world will belong to you"
The old Hebrew proved prophet a Fl.
nancial Pentarchy was founded at his grave,
and soon erected its thrones in the five prin-
cipal cities of Europe: Frankfort, Vienna,
Naples, London and Paris.
The deposit of the Elector Of Hesse Cas-
sci continued to produce rich harvests to the
heirs of Meyer Rothschild.
In 1914, at the Vienna Congress, the
Elector related to the assembled sovereigns
the story of the Frankfort invasion, and of
the integrity of the old Jew. At once the
house at Frankfort obtained the custom of
the "Holy Alliance" 1t was commissioned
with all the important loans which at that
time were negotiated by the Emperors Of
Russia and Australia, and the Kings of
England, Prussia, Denmark, Naples and Sar-
DINA. In every one of these great financial
operations each of the Rothschilds had a
share.
James, the youngest of the family, receiv-
ed the lone of two hundred millions, which
France needed, to make friends, of its ene-
mics.
Disposing over enormous capitals, the five
brothers created active and energetic CORES
ponding agencies in every part of Europe.
They received information of the slightest
stock fluctuations in all the different and
most remote places. They negotiated with
the most perfect security; and their opera
tions remained wrapped in the most impen-
etrable secrecy, and were secured by certain
success in speculation of the money market.
Three of old Meyers sons seem more par
ticularly to have inherit his genius. These
are Nathan, Solomon and James.
Nathan deserves especial mention. Scafse-
ly of age in 1893, Relocated himself in Man
chester, with capital Of FIVE hundred thous-
and francs, which he had borrowed from the
paternal Golfers. In four years he had
tripled his capital, removed his banking house
to London, where the extent of his business
soon assumed perfectly gigantic proportions.
Nathan served his government as inter-
mediator with the continental powers, who
at that time were fighting against France,
and he alone continued to extend credit to
the Cabinet of St. James.
He was at Brussels in 1915, during the
battle of Waterloo, and Immediately after it
hastened to London, where he arrived twen-
ty-four hours in advance of the official news
of the victory. During these hours he went
on Change, bought everything that was Of
fercd, and thus gained at one stroke of bust
ness thirty millions.
The invasion of 1915 quadrupled his for
tune, and despite of the most gigantic bank
ing undertakings, he never neglected even
the smallest matter of business.
He died in 1886.
Physically, Nathan Rothschild had repul-
sive features. His department was that of
the evident parvenu. To him is ascribed
the first plan of rc-uniting the children Of
Israel by the banks of Jordan; he designed
to buy from the Turks that country which
was promised to his race. They would then,
from pure gratitude, have made him King
of Palestine; but whether they would have
exchanged their European wealth and busi-
ness for the land of the Bible, still remains
an open question. Our lamented friend,
the late Major Noah, was Jealous and earn
est co-laborer of Rothschild in that cause.
Nathan married the sistsr of Isaac Cohen,
who had a dowry of fifteen million francs.
James, the head of the Paris house, went
from Vienna, to Paris, to establish himself
there, at the very moment when the sceptre
fell from the hands of Napoleon. lie was
the principal banker in the loans of the Res
toration. He and his brother Nathan re-
ceived the billion of war expenses, and the
two billions of indemnity paid to the allied
powers. That enormous stream Of money
flowed through their Golfers, and how much
of it remained there has never been aseer-
tanned.
After the downfall of the old dynasty, Ba-
ron James offered his gold6lled hand to
the monarchy of the July revolution, and
the hand was gratefully grasped. The Baron
and his wife now obtained the often before
refused entree at Court, and the Princes Of