Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-05-10
THE MAILED HAND.
A POWER THAT SWAPS THE DES-
TINY OF NATIONS.
History of the IIema kable Family
Tint Has ExerCtsed Such a " on.
derful Power over the Affairs Of
Europe, and Now the Aiimoner Of
America

dcrfuI Power Over the Affairs Oi
Europe, and Now the Aiimoner o
America.
William f.. Curtis in Chicago Record1
Now that the United States ha.
placed its treasury reserve under the
protection Of the Rothschilds anC
their associates it may be said that
this great banking firm almost con-
trolls the finances of the entire world
and the prophecy Of the dying jacob
Is fulfilled; The scepter shall not de.
part from Judah, nor a lawgiver from
between his feet until Shiloh come"
Last fall the Russian government,
for the first time in history, leaned
heavily upon the financial shoulder OF
the Rothschilds, and a part Of the
consideration they exacted from the
young Gar, who found an empty ex-
chequer when he mounted the throne,
was radical modification of the policy
which his father pursued toward the
Jews in Russia and Poland. His gov
ernment was at the mercy of the
Jews, and the price paid for their AS
sistance was she revocation OF the
merciless edicts which Alexander III.
had uttered against their race.
And now the United States bows
before Judahs also. The treasury has
not been compelled to pay so high a
price for gold since the close of the
war. 1t is not because the national
credit is low, but because the Roth
schilds and their associates control the
coin that the government must have
to redeem its notes and the rates OF
exchange which govern the shipment
Of specie from one continent to the
other.
This government has never been a
customer of the Rothschilds before.
1t has always negotiated its loans
through American agencies, and gen.
orally through national banks. For
many years the government kept a
financial agent in London and the
funding of the public debt into bonds
at lower rate of interest was largely
conducted through him during the
administrations of Grant and Hayes.
1t is asserted that during the war,
when the treasury needed assistance
more than it ever did, before or since,
the Rothschilds refused to take United
States securities, although for near
ly century their chief business had
been the negotiation OF government
loans.
1t is we'll understood among diplo-
matists that the peace OF Europe has
for several years practically depended
upon the Rothschilds and their asso-
ciates, and many interesting tales are
told around the embassies at London,
Berlin, Paris and St. Petersburg of the
influences that have been exerted
from time to time by those quiet and
solemn-faced bankers to cool the pa
triotic indignation and quench the
military ardor of the soldiers and poll
ticians. None of the great nations OF
Europe except France, or England
perhaps, could 60 to war without bor-
rowing money, and none of them
could get it except through the Roths-
childs and their associates. France is
believed to be the only government in
Europe that can promptly float loan
of any magnitude among its own peo-
pie. The greater part of the French
national debt is now held by the peas
ants throughout the provinces. The
manner in which De Lesseps raised
$500, ,OO0O 600 to waste on the Panama
canal shows the resources of the
French people, and the indemnity ex-
acted from France by the German
government in 1872 came from the
stockings and the money chests OF the
peasants OF the country.
| It is curious fact that the 5,OOO,-
600 900 of francs which France paid in
gold coin as the price of peace still
lies untouched in the casemates OF
the old fortress of Standau, near Ber-
lin, which was built by the grand
father OF Frederick the Great more
than two centuries ago.
The Rothschilds are believed to
control most of the prominent finan'
cial papers in Europe, and some Of
the influential political newspapers
also, particularly in Vienna, Paris
Frankfort and London; and it is not
an insignificant fact that the success
sor to Gladstone as prime minister ol
England is Lord Rothschild's son-in'
law.
There is no legend or tale of fiction
more remarkable than the history o
the Rothschilds family, and the mar
yelous manner in which it has wor
its way from one of the humbles
novels of Judengasse to an honorable
station besides the thrones OF Europ'
is almost incredible.
During the last century, when tn
Jews were prescribed in Germany, tn
council of Frankfort selected q SIT
outside the walls of that town and ha
houses built at the expense OF tn
Jews which the latter were permltte
to occupy, but they were not allowe
, to enter the city except by a certai
gate and within certain hours. Th
d men were compelled to wear yello'
badge upon their garments, and Gel
tain pattern of hat, and the wome
l. were ordered to add blue stripes
their wells. They were required
} walk in the roadway and leave tt
l pavement for Christians. The nun
Der OF marriages was limited and el
gagged couples had to wait their tur