Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1863-11-18
THE HOUSE OF RoTHsCH1LD.


the money kings ofEurope. the lannon's
house Of ltothschld:-
Among all the congresses held this
summer OF princes, lawyers, musicians,
schoo!mosters, social science men, political
economists and hundred others. one
very notable meeting has almost escaped
public attention. few days ago our Pa
his correspondent ,old US that a congress
OF the members of the llustrous house Of
holhscfildhus>been sitlingat Paris. The
purpose of the meeting was nothing less
than TO re-arrange the dominIous of the
great banking dynasty. In one word
the great object oil the Rothschild
congress was TO reduce the five branch
es OF the house who now rule Eu-
rope to four, and following the examples
OF GarlUaidl, 20 strike another severe On of
Naples from the list oGreigning monarcns.
. llenceforth there are to be but four kings
of the house OF Rorhschild with secure
thrones at London, Paris, Vienna and
/ Frankfort.
1t is not exactly hundred years since
q poor jew, called Mayer Ausem, nude
I his appearance at the city Of Hanover
bareiooted With a sack on his shoulder
and bundle Of rags on his back. Sue
cessiul in trade like most of his corelig-
ionists, he returned to Frankfort at the
end Of few years, and set up a small shop
~ the jew Lane" OYER which hung the
sgn-board Of red shield called in Ger
mau roi5 SchHH As dealer in old and rare
coins, he made the acquaintance of the
Serene Elector of IIcsse Cdsscl. who hap
penlng to be IN want OF "a confidential agent
for various open and secret purposes, aI-
pointed the shrcwd looking Mayer An
selm 10 the post. The Serene Eleclor, be-
ing compelled soon after TO fly ., his coun-
try, Mayer Anselm took charge of his Casli,
amounting TO several millions of ilOrins.-
with the instinct Of his race. Anseim did
not forget to put the money out on good
interest, so that before Napoleon was gone
to EI6a and the illusrrious ElectoI had
returned TO Cassel the capital had more
than doubled. The ruler Of Ilesse Cassel
thought 1t almost marvel to get his mo
/ ney safely returned from the jew Lane of
, Frankfort, and al the Congress Of Vienna
I was never tired of singing the praise ofhis
| Hebrew agent to all he ciiuces of Europe.
! The dweler5 under the sign Of the Red
/ Shield laughed in their sleeves keeping
to themselves the great fact that the elec-
| toraI's two millions of forms had brought
them four millions Of their own. Never
was honesty a better policy
Mayer Anselm died in 1872, not without
/ the supreme satisfaction of having his hon
es'y oXtolled 10y kings and princes. He
left five sons who succeeded him in the
banking and moncy-lendi1g business, and
who, conscious of their social value, drop
ped the name of Anselm, and adopted the
/ higher sounding one Of Rothschild, taken
from the signboard over the palelnal
house, On his deathbed their father ha d
taken solemn oath from all Of them to
hold his four millions we'll together, and
/ they have faithfully kept the Injunction.
/ But the old city Of Frankfort was clearly
I too narrow a realm for the fruitful sowing
/ OF four millions, and in consequence, the
! tive were determined after a while to ex-
! tend their sphere OF operations by estab-
! fishing branch banks at the chief cities Of
! Europe. The sldest sou, Anselu, born in
| lII3, remained at frankfort; the second,
Salomou, born in l774, se.ued at Vienna
( the third, Nathan. Uorn in III. went to
London the fourth, Charles. the eqtmi
. terrible of the family, established himself in
the soft cIi.nIte OF Naples, and the fifth
and Youngest, James, bora in lI92, took
, ag his residence at Paris Strictly united,
the wealth and power Of tie five Roths-
childs were vested in the eldest ho.n 8
nevertheless, the .hrewdost of The sons OF
Mayer Auselm, and the heir of hi, genius,
Nathan, the third son, took the reius OF
of government into bis own hands. by
his faith in Wellington. and the flesh and
muscle o! British soldiers ne nearly d0ub-
led the fortuneof the family, gaining more
than a million stirling by the sole battle
Of Waterloo. the news Of which he carried
to England, two days earlier tha2 the mail.
The weight Of the solid millions gradually
transferred the asceuiuncy in the family
from Germany to England, making Lon
don the metropolis of the regning dynasty
of Rotbschild.
Like the royal families of Europe the
members of the house Of Rothsohlld only
intermarry with each other. James
Rothschild married the daughter Of his
brother Salomon his son Edmund, heir
apparent Of the French line, was united to
to his first cousin, the daughter Of Leone J.,
Iand granddaughter ofNaihanROthschild ;
and IsoDel again-M. =. for London-
r gave his hand u 1885 to his first cousin,
Charlotte. the daughter of Charles Roths-
child OF Naples. 1t is unnecessary that,
though these matrimonial alliances have
kept the millions wonderfully together,
they have not improved the race Of old
Mayer Anselm the Red Shield. Area
lay signs Of physical weakness are hecom-
ing visible in the great family. So at leds,
hint the French papers in their meagre
E notices about the Rothschiid congress at
Paris From all that can be g1thered out
ola wilderness Of canards, thin faces and
thin fiction, il appears that the soyereigus
Of the Stock Exchange met in conference
for he double purpose of centralizing
. their money and power and widening
, their matrimonial realm. Ia other words,
the Eve reigning kings, defendants, ac-
cording to the law OF primogeniture, Of
the fye sons Of Mayer Anse!m came to The
decision to reduce the number to four, by
getting the Neapolilan branch of Charles
sRotbschild, while it Was likewise decided
4 that permission should be given to the
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