Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-07

cities, towns and companies. The re.
ports Of the Frankfort exchange are
looked at by European bankers with az
much interest as that Of London OF
Paris. =
Erlanger, the banker who negotiated
the rebel cotton loan, and who ileeced
English sympathizers with the South out
Of fifteen million dollars, has house
here. He has just now taken hold OF
the new Tunisian loan, but his manage
ment Of the rebel loan has brought dis
credit upon his house.
The power of the Red Shield was felt
| by Prussia last summer. The Prussian
Government demanded an indemnity OF
great amount, twenty five million dol
lars, believe, from the city of Frank.
fort The head Of the house of the Red
Shield informed Count Bismarck that II
the attempt was made to enforce that
levy he would break every bank in Ber.
lin that he had tho power to do it, and
that he should exercise the power.
Prussia had won avictory at Konniggratz;
she could sweep away all opposition
but here, in the person Of one man, she
had met an adversary who had the power
to hum BILE her, and she declined the con.
test. A much lower sum was agreed
upon, which was paid by the city.
THE RoTHcHILDs AEDlTHE POPE.
For fifteen centuries the Jews have
been cursed by the Pope, and prosecuted
by the Roman Church. There is no
more revolving chapter of horrors in his.
tory than that of the treatment of the
Jews at the hands of the Pontiffs. In
all lands where the Roman religion is
dominant, the children of Israel have
been treated with barbaric rigor-allow-
ed few privileges, denied all rights,
looked upon as a people accursed of
God, and set apart by divine ordination
to be trampled upon by the church. In
Rome, at the present day, the Jews are
confined to the Ghetto; they are not
allowed to set up shop in any other
part of the city; they cannot leave the
city without permit; they can engage
snly in certain trades; they are com
PEELED to pay enormous taxes into the
Papal treasury; they are subject to a
stringent code of laws established by
the Pope for their special government ;
they are imprisoned and fined for the
most trivial offenses. They cannot own
any real estate in the city; cannot build
or tear down or remodel any dwelling,
or change their place of business with.
out Papal permission. They are in ab
ject slavery, with no right whatever, and
entitled to no privileges, and receive
none, except upon the gracious con-
descension of the Pope. In former times
they were numerically whipped and
compelled to listen once a week TO the
Christian doctrine of the priests. But
time is bringing changes The Pope is
in want of money; and the house of the
red shield has money to lend on good
security. The house is always ready to
accommodate Governments. Italy wants
money, so she sells her fine system of
railroads to the Rothschilds. The Pope
wants money, and he sends his Nunco
to the wealthy house of the despised race,
offers them security on the property Of
the church, the Campagna, and receives
ten million dollars to maintain his army
and Imperial State That was in 1866.
A year passes, and the Pontifcal ex-
penditures are five millions more than
the income, and the deficit is made up
by the Rothschilds, who take a second
security at higher rate of interest
Another year has passed, and there is
third great annual vacuum in the Papal
treasury of six millions, which quite
likely will be filled by the same house
The firm can do it with as much ease as
your readers can pay their yearly sub
scription to the weekly Journal When
will the Pope redeem his loan at the rate
he is going2 Never Manifestly the
day is not far distant when these repre-
sentatives of the prosecuted race will
have all the available property of the
church in their possession. Surely time