The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-06-02

cor1an VIII ever be thus assisted. for he
might find other things than those he
was IN search OF, and thereby create new
enlgnas while solving old ones, 60 the
possible confusion of other interests than
those OF mere readers of books
There IS good authority for the state
men5 that the combined assets of the
Rothschilds OF today reach 81, 600, 600, :
600, and that they control indirectly at
least half as much more. They are the
largest creditors OF the nations of the
earth, and their capital is at the back of
many of the greatest corporate interests
IN the world, the syndicate which con-
trolls the Russian petroleum fields, for
instance, and those which, under the
guidance of Cecil Rhodes, control the
South African diamond mines and the
famous nitrate beds wrested by Chill
from Peru
The story OF the origin of this vast
wealth is u schoolbook chestnut 4"
Everybody knows how the Landgrave of
Hesse- Cassei, desiring TO save the i'm
mense boards of silver which had accu-
mulated IN his palace vaults as the re-
suit of selling his soldiers co fight for
England and France when Napoleou's
army invaded his territory TO despoiI
him, sSzlo for Mayer Anselm Rothschild.
then money lender IN a small way at
Frankfort, and offered him the use Of
the treasure without interest If he would
convey it TO a place of safety. Ths
amount thus intrusted to Rothschild
was about So, 600, 000 and OF this i'm
mense sum he and his sons had the free
use for eight years, after which they
paid an annual interest of 9 per cent
upon it until 1898, when the principal
was repaid TO the landgrave's son and
successor
RothschiId had five sons, and before
his death, which occurred in 1912, he
saw them established on financial
thrones IN the principal money centers
of Europe-Anselm I'M the paternai
Frankfort, Nathan in London, Solomon
in Vienna, James in Paris and Charles
IN Naples-where their sons, nephews
or other natural successors reign today
in their stead, except in the case of the
Neapolitan house, which was discontin-
ued on the death of it's founder IN 1855,
his son preferring life of gilded ease
TO the useless labor Of increasing his in
heritance. Many of his cousins have
initiated him IN this, and all of them
have learned the superlative value in
the financial world of princely estab-
lishments and regal retinues. But every
generation produces for each of the
houses a Napoleon of finance who makes
money for all the rest, and thus the grip
Of the family ON the purse strings of
the world is never 1oosened.
Lord Rothschild, the present head of |
the London house, is naturally enough |
the primate of the family, for London |
is the Rome of the financial world and |
he ia the pope who reigns in its Vati- |
IAN. He succeeded his father in 1879
and was then known as Sir Nathaniel
having succeeded to the bar |
onetcy of his fathers younger brother, |
Sir Anthony, who was the first of the |
English Rothsehilds to be knighted and |
he first Jew ever created a baronet. |
The title of baron so freely used by the |
,ther Rothschilds is an Austrian one,
derived from patents given early in the I
century TO the five sons Of Mayer An /
elm.
Lord Rothschild also inherited one of |
hese Austrian baronies, bat since his |
deviation 70 the British peerage in 1886 /
{ is Of course secondary to his English /
title The English Rothschilds are all
reat landowners, as are all Of the race,
or that matter, and most Of them are
PASSIONATE art lovers and collectors.
ord Rothschild has a magnificent es-
ate at TTing, in Hertfordshire, and
ipon his walls hang the best pictures
y Gainsborough, Sir Joshua Reynolds
md Turner to be found outside the ma
ional galleries.
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