The Morgantown monitor. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1863-1864, 1864-01-16
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THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD.

The London Globe gives the follow,
ing interesting account of the rise
and present position Of the "money
kings of Europe" the famous house
Of Rothschild -
"Among all the congresses he'd
this summer, Of princes, lawyers,
musicians, schoolmasters, social sci
ence men, political economists, and
a hundred others, one very notable
meeting has almost escaped public
attention. 4 few days ago our Paris
correspondent told US that congress
Of the mem bers of the illustrious
house of Rothschild has been sitting z
at Paris. The purport of the meet
ing was nothing less than to rear
range the dominions of the great
banking dynasty. In one word, the
great object Of the Rothschild con-
gress was to reduce the five branches
of the house who now rule Europe to
four, and following the example Of
Gariballi, TO strike another sovereign
Of Naples from the list of reiguIng
mouarchs. Henceforth there are to
be but four kings of the house Of
tsothschild, with secure thrones at
London, pari4, Vienna and Frank
Tort. g
= 1t is now exactly a hundred years
since q poor Jew, called Aayer Au-
selm, made his appearance at the city
OF Hanover, barefooted, with sack
on his shoulders, and bundle ofrags
on his back. Successful in trade,
like most of his co-religionists, he
returned to Frankfort at the end Of
few years, and set up small shop
in the jew Lane, over which hung
the sign-board of red shield, called
in German roth-scild. AS dealer
in old and rare coins, he made the
acquaintance of the Serene Elector Of
Hessee Cassel, who, happening to be
in want of a confidential agent for
various open and secret purposes,
appointed the shrewd-lookiug Mayer
Anselm to the post. The Serene
Elec!or being compelled soon after to
fly his country Mayer Anselm took
charge Of his cash, amounting to
several millions Of florins. With the
instinct 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 Cassel thought it al
most a marvel to get his money safely
returned from the Jew Lane of Frank
fort, and at the Congress of Vienna
was never 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 sleeves, keeping carefully to
themselves the great fact that the
Electoral two millions forms had
brougt them four millions of their
own. Never was honesty better
policy.
"Mayer Anselm died in 1912,
without having thesupreme sstlsfac-
tion of having his honesty extolled
by kings and princes. He left five
sons, who succeeded him IN the bank
ing and money-lendiug business, and
who, conscious of their social value,
dropped the name of Anselm, and
adopted the higher sounding one of
Rothschlld, taken from the signboard
over the paternal house. On his
death bed their father had taken a
solemn oath from all of them to hold
his four millions we'll together, and
they have faithfully kept the injunc-
tion. But the old city of Frankfort
was clearly too narrow realm for
the fruitful sowing four millions; and
in consequence, the Ave were deter
mined after while to extend their
sphere Of operations by establishing
branch banks at the chief cities of