The Shasta courier., 1863-12-19
: HASTA COURIER.
The House of Rosthschild.


mer, of princes, lawyers, musicians, school
masters, socal-science men, political econo
lsists and a hundred others, one very nota
bic meeting has almost escaped public atten
tiion A few days ago our Paris correspon
dent told US that Congress of the members
of the illussrious house o. Rosthschlld has
been sitting in Paris. The purport OF the
meeting was no less than to rearrange the
donlnions of the great banking dynasty. In
one word the great object of the Rosthschild
Congress was TO reduce the five branches OF
the house who now rule Europe, 10 four, and
following the example of Garibaldi, to strike
another sovereign of Naples from the list of
regning monarchs. Herceforth there are
TO be but four kings of the house of Kosths-
child, with secure thrones at London, Paris,
Vienna and Frankfort. 1t IS now exactly a
hundred years since poor Jew, called May
er Anselm, made his appearance at the city
of Hanover, barefooted, with a sack on his
shoulders, and bundle of rags on his back.
Successful in trade, like most of his core
ligionists he returned to Frankfort at the
end of few years and set up small shop
in the "Jew Lane" over which hung the
signboard of red shield, called in German
R0sthschild.
As dealer in old and rare coins, he made
the acquaintance of the Serene Elcctor of
Hesse Cassel, who, happening to be in want
of confidential agent for various open and
secret purposes appointed the shrewd look
ing Mayer Anselm TO the post. The Serene
Elector being compelled soon after to fly his
country, Mayer Anselm took charge of his
cash, amounting to several milliors Of forms.
With the instinct Of his race, Anselm did not
forget to put the money out on good interest,
SO that before Napoleon had gone to Elba,
and the illustrieus Eector had returned to
Casse, the capital had nearly doubled. The
ruler of Hesse Cassel thought 1t almost Il
marvel to get his money safely returned from
the Jew Lane of Frankfort, and at the Con
gress of Vienna was never tired singing the
praise of his Hebrew agent to all the prin-
ces of Europe. The dwellers under the sign
Of the Red Shield laughed in their sleeves :;
keeping carefully to themselves the great
fact that the electoral two millions brought
four millions of their own. Never was homes
ty better policy.
Mayer Anselm died in 1912, without hav-
ing the supreme satisfaction of hearing his
honesty extolled by kings and princes. lie
left five sons, who succeeded him in the bank
ing and money lending business, and who,
conscious of their social value, dropped the
name of Anselm, and adopted the higher
sounding one of Rnthschild, taken from the
signboard over the paternal house. On his
death bed their father had taken a solemn
oath of them to hold his four millions well
together, and they had faithfully kept the in
junction -gthe old city Of Frankfort was
too narrow calm for the faithful sowing of
four millio and in consequence the five
werefs s,terl ed after while to extend their
10 tions by establishing branch
ief cities of Europe. The eld-
Al elm, born lI73, remained at
IT; second, Solomon, horn in
.ettled at Vienna the third, Nathan,
in III, went to London; the fourth,
infant terrible of the family, established
..self in the soft climate of Naples; and
the fifth and youngest, James, took up his
residence in Paris.
Strictly united, the wealth and power of
the Rothschild was vested in the eldest born ;
nevertheless, the shrcwdest of the sons Of
MAYER Anselm, and the heir of his genius,
Nathan, the third son, took the reins of gov
ernment into his own hands. By his faith
in Wellington, and the flesh and blood OF
British soldiers, he nearly doubled the for
tunes Of his family gaining more than mill
ion sterling by the sole battle of Waterloo,
the news Of which he carried to Eng land two
days earlier than the mail. The weight OF
the solid millions gradually transferred the
: ascer sncy of the family from Germany to
making London the metropolis OF
ing tynasty of Rothschild. Like
4 far ses of Europe, the members
. iseI 2othsclld only intermarry
8 Rof hid married the daughter Of
= his brntherZsmon; his son Edmund. heir
apparent of I French line, was united to his
first cousin, t6s daughter of Lionel and grand
daughter of Nathan ,Rothschild; and Lionel
again-M. P. for London-gave his hand in
1886 to his first cousin Charlotte, the daugh-
ter of Charles Rothschi!d of Naples. 1t is
unnecessary to say that. although these
matrimonial alliances have kept the millions
wonderfully together, they have not improv.
ed the race of old Mayer Anselm of the Red
Shield. Already signs of physical weakness
are becoming visible in the great family so,
at least, hint the French papers in their mea-
ger notices about the Rothschild Congress in
Paris.
From all that can be gathered out of will
derness of canards, thin face and thick fc-
tion, it appers that the sovereigns Of the Stock
Exchange met in conference for the double
purpose Of centralizing their money power
and widening their matrimonial realm. In
other words, the five reigning kings, dcscen-
dants, according TO the law of primogeniture,
of the five sons of Marer Anselm, came to
the decision to reduce their number to four,
by cutting off the Neapoltan branch of
Charles Rothschild, while it was likewise de-
cided that permission should be given to
the younger members Of the family to marry,
for the benefit of the race. beyond the range
of first cousinship. What has led 20 the ex-
clusion of the Neapolitan line of Rothschild.
seems to have been the constant exercise OF
highly blameful liberality, unheard of in
the annals of the family. Charles, the FRO
digal son of Mayer Anselm. actually presen-
ted in the year 1916, 10000 ducats TO the
orphan asylum of St. Carlo. at Naples, and
the son and heir of Charles-Gustavus-
given repeated signs of his inclination to fol-
low in the footsteps of his father. Such con
duet, utterly unbecoming of the policy of the
house of Rothschild, could not be allowed IL
pass unnoticed, and accordingly we quote
the rumar of Paris journolism-'he decheance
of the Neapolitan line has been pronounced
Baron Gustavus de Rothschid is not to re-
.;ra into rr;vata lifa lita famonS HharloS Z