Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1895-09-26
Nations Bow to Them.
RoTHSCHILDs MORE POWERFUL
THAN ARMIES AND NAVIEs.

? RoIhSChlLDS MORE POWERFUL
THAN ARMIES AND NAVIEs.
A Partisan anarchist sent an infer
nal machiue to the head Of the French
Rothschilds couple of weeks ago
and the financial universe trembleC
the next day when the cable flashed
the news to all quarters of the globe
How intimately the nations of Eu
rope are entwined with the fortune.
OF the Rothschilds Is a question:
That the connection is very close in,
deed can be easily seen by a glance
at the history of Europe. One ma.
tlon may declare war upon the other,
out not the most powerful of them
all has the courage or hardihood to
declare war upon the Rothschilds,
such is the power of money when
guided by the hereditary genius of
this strange family.
In all of the European wars of the
past century the Rothschilds were
a most potent factor. They prac-
t1cally held in their hands the power
to give defeat or victory to either
side by withdrawing their support
from the one and concentrating it
upon the other. But this is not the
policy of the Rothschilds. They
have no desire to make an empty
show of their power. War in the
past has always meant untold mil
lions to them. Carnage coins gold
for them.
The wealth of this family can
only he roughly estimated. 1t may
be 81 900, ,0O0, 900, and it may be 81
OO0, 1000, 900; is somewhere between
those figures. There are eleven
barons, each one of them among the
richest men in Europe, and with
their respective fortunes so fixed
that they can be used as a unit, if
need be.
All this wealth sprang from the
genius Of the son Of poor dealer in
furniture and cheap bric-a-brac at
frankfort. This Genius was named
| Mayer Amschel Rothschild, and he
was the founder of fortune which
has no equal in contemporary his
tory. In a small way this man
started banking business. 1t was
little concern, and for the first few
years he had hard struggle to keep
1t from going to the wall. From
the first he mapped out certain rules
which he absolutely adhered to, and
which are just as potent in the man.
aRement OF the numerous banks to-
day as they were then, and, for that
matter, they will probably be in
force dozen generations from now
One of them is: "A man will not
tell what he has Tot heard All.
other is: Gold never repeats what
1t sees.' Absolute secrecy in all deal
ings Is the rule of the house. Let q
clerk in any of the banks be discov.
cred talking about the most trivial
thing connected with the affairs OF
the business, and he is at once dis.
charged. AS far as possible, the
Rothschilds employ clerks from the
same family, generation after genera
ton. The great-grandson of present
clerk may be beeping the same ac-
counts hundred years hence that
his forefather is working over to- day
In time the capacitysfor Saying moth
ing becomes hereditary.
The Rothschilds employ q skilled
professor of finance to instruct their
growing sons. Finance with them
Ia everything. A few Americans
have studied under this genius. -
Henry r. Gillig, the founder Of the
American Exchange in London, was
one of these, but he did not follow
his teachings strictly, for, after
building up great fortune in Lon
don without having a cent of origi-
nal capital, he failed seven years
ago for 5000, 900, leaving hundreds
of touring Americans stranded i'm
all parts of the globe.
AT the time of the Napoleonic in
vasion, the great Rothschild had
built up a local reputation as finan-
cier, and had already established
his son, Nathan Mayer Rothschild,
In London, for these were unsettled
times, and the prudence of the man
discovered the necessity of having a
place to fly to, if occasion required.
When the news of Napoleon's
coming reached frankfort the Elec.
tor Of Hesse placed. IL, ,OOO, 200 francs
in the custody of the elder Roths.
child for safe-keeping. This sum
was sent to the son in England. :.
Napoleon heard of 1t and tried In
every way to induce the banker tC
give 1T up.
A commission went to his estab
lishmsnt and minutely examined
the vault and the books. Menace,
and intimidation were In vain, how
ever, In persuading Rothschlld Il
divulge the whereabouts of the treas
ure, and the commission undertook
to play upon his religious scruple
by demanding an oath. He refused
to take 1t, and there was talk of put
ting him under arrest. Napoleon
did not quite care to. venture sucl
an act of violence, and an effort wa
then made to win the old man by tn,
promise Of gain. They proposed t.
leave him half the treasure if h,
would deliver the other half to tn,
: French officials. They promised
him a receipt in full, accompanied
: by certificate proving that he haC
yielded only to force and that h,
was blameless for the seizure Of th,
entire amount. But the banker ha,
already decided that all trusts wer,
sacred and refused.