Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-10-27
The Rorhschilds.

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sociai-science men, political economists and
hundred others, one very notable meeting ha
almost escaped public attention, A few day:
ago our Paris correspondent told US that a con
gress of the illustrious house of Rothschild ha:
been sitting at Paris. The prrport ofthe meet
| ing was nothing less than to re-arrange the do
minIons of the great banding dynasty. Ii oat
word, the great object of the Rothschild con-
gress was to reduce the five branches OF the
house who now rue Europe to four, and, TO-
| lowing the example of Gaaibaldi, TO strike an
other sovereign OF Nap,es from The list oil reign
! ing monarchs. Hencefo. tn there areto be but
| four kings ofthe house of Rothschlld, with Sc
cure thrones at London, Paris, Vienna aid
Frankfort. Il is now exactly hundred years
| since poor Jew. called Mayer Anselm, made
his appearance at the City Of Hanover, barefoot
ed, with sack on his shoulders and bundle OF
rags on his back. Successful in trade, like
most of his CO religlonlsts, he returned to
Frankfort at the end of few years, and set up
a small shop in the flew Lanes" over which
hung the signboard OF a red shield, called in
German rothschild.
AS dealer in old and rare coins, he made
the AGO uaintance OF the Serene Elector of Hesse
Cassel, who, happening to be in want ola con-
fidential agent for various open and secret pur-
poses, appointed the shrewd- 10 oking Mayer
Anselm 10 the post The Serene Elector, be-
ing compelled soon after TO fly his country,
Mayer Ansem took charge of his cash, amount
ing to several millions of FORMS With the in
stinct of his race, Anselm did not forget to put
the money out on good interest; so that, before
Napoleon was gone to Elba, and the illustrious
Elector had returned to Cassel. the capital had
more than doubled. The ruler OF Hesse- Cas-
sci thought it almost marvel to get his money
safely returned from the Jew Lane of Frank
F.s- - he nf wa
tired of singing the praise of his Hebrew agent
to all the Princes of Europe. The dWellers
under the sign of the Red Shield laughed in
their sleeve, keeping carefully TO themselves
the great fact that the electoral two million
forms brought them four millions OF their own.
Never was honesty better policy.
Mayer Ansem died in 1912, without having
the supreme satisfaction of hearing his honesty
extolled by kings and princes. He left five
sons, who succeeded him in the banking and
money-iending business, and who, conscious of
their social value, dropped the name of Anselm,
and adopted the higher sounding one OF Roths-
child, taken from the signboard over the pa
ternal house. On his deathbed their father
had taken solemn oath from all of them to
hold his four millions well together, and they
have faithfully kept the injunction. But the
old city of Frankfort clearly was too narrow
realm for the fruitful sowing of four millions,
and, in consequence; the five were determined
after a while TO extend their sphere of opera
tons by establishing branch banks az the chief
cities OF Europe. The e. est son, Anselm, born
1878, remained at Frankfort; the second S2.o-
mon, l774, settled al Vienna; the third, Nathan,
born in TIT, went 10 London: the fourth,
Charles, the enfant terrible of the family, es-
tabIished himself in the soft climate of Naples;
and the fifth and youngest, james. born 1892.
took up his residence at Paris.
Strictly united, the wealth and power of the
FIVE Rothschids was vested in the eldest born;
nevertheless, the shrewdest of the sons of
Mayer Anselm, and the heir oil his genius, Ma
than, the third son, soon took the reins OF gov
eminent into his own hands. BY his faith in
Wellington and the flesh and muscle of British
soldiers, he nearly dnah,ed the fortune of the
family, gaining more than million sterling by
the sole battle OF Waterloo, the news OF which
he carried TO Eng aud twe days earlier than
the mail. The weight Of the solid millions
gradual " tran ierred the ascendency in the
family from Germany TO England, making Lon
don the metropolis of the reigning dynasty of
Roihschild. Like the Royal families of Eu-
rope, the members of the house of Rothschid
only intermarry with each other. James
Rotbschild married the daughter of his BROTH
er Solomon; his sen Edmond, heir apparent OF
the French line, was united TO his first cousin,
Nathan Rolnschd; and Lionel again--N. p.
for London--gave his hand in 1896 to his first
cousin Charlotte, the daughter Of Charles
Ro,hschild of Naples. 1t is unnecessary to
say that, although these matrimonial alllances
have kept the millions wonderfully together,
they have not improved the race Of old Mayer
Anselm of the Red Shield.
Already signs of physical weakness are be-
coming visible in the great family. So, at least,
hint the French papers in their meager notices
about the Rothschild Congress at Paris. From
all that can be gathered out OF wilderness OF
canards, thin faces and thick fiction. il appears
that the sovereigns Of the Stock exchange met
in conference for the double purpose of CEN
tralizing their money power and widening their
matrimonial realm. In other words, the five
reigning kings, descendants, according to the
law Of primogeniture, of the FIVE sons of MAJ
er Ansem. came to the decision to reduce their
number to four, by cutting off the Neapolitan
branch of Charles RothschiId, while it was
likewise decided 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 consinship. What has led TO the
exclusion of the Neapoitan line of Rothschld
seems to have been the constant exercise of
highly blamab,e lib srality unnear9 of in the
annals of the family.
Charles, the prodigal son of Mayer Anselm,
actually presented in the year 1916, 10000
duca's TO the orphan asylum of st. Carlo, at
Naples, and the son and heir of Charles, Gus
tavus, has given repeated signs of his inclina-
ton 20 follow in the footsteps of his fath-r.
Such conduct, utterly unbecoming of the poh-
CIV Of the house of Rothschild, could not be al
lowed to pass unnotced, and accordingly-we
quote the rumor of Paris journalism-the de-
cheance of the Neapolitan line has been pro-
nounced However, Baron GustayuS de Roths.
child is not to retire into private life, like ia
nous Charles ", with only cassock on his
shoulders and prayer book in his hand; but
| is allowed to take with him small fortane of
l50,000,000 francs, or about six millions ster-
| ling--a mere crumb from the table of the de-
scendants OF poor Mayer Anseim, who wan
dered shoeless through the electorate of good
King George the third. II is certain that no
romance of royalty is equal to the romance OF
tie house of Rothschild.-Loadon Globe.
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