Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-04-30
HlRscH AND SAY DEAD.

nDGn AND SAY DEAD.
o. 1sds Money and the other ssudie4
Eees Eeonomy = Their Reputation.
onievenents Was Colonization of Rus.
Sewss while Say Made the GreaI
1efs Of the World Listen and Read.
sIEMKA. April 2e-Baron Hirsch died
q q neart disease at his estate near
Komorn. -
Ibaron Maurice de Hirsch, whose full nam1
maurice de Hirsch de Gereuth, was born
lunch q years ago. His father was a mer.
49, IN bavaria, who for services rendered To
- ..ase was ennobled in 1859. Young Hirscl
sas INTO business at the age OF II, associat-
- mouse of Bischofsheim & Gold
o1 Before long his capacity as q
M1uAncsee became evident. his moderate patrf-
uony soon doubled itself, and his personal In
nuence was greatly Increased by q matrimonial
- with Mile Bischofsheim, daughter
VI tne head OF the banking house with
xaich he was associated He was the
Sa1se 20 plan the system OF railways leading
1Iom buda Pesth. in Hungary, to varna, on the
O1sck sea. and through his strong will
ena financial capabilities Of the highest
order his plans were carried out.
IN 1866 the commercial collapse OF
N LaGrand Dumonceau. which shook the
money world OF Belgium to its foundations.
ease him his opportunity. He secured the
most valuable OF the assets. including the
1u.-efn railways, and by his skillful manipu-
iauon OF them, built up In quarter Of a GEN.
tury fcrsnne which equals that Of the Roths-
cnilds No man who has acquired sucn vast
riches ever used them to better purposes His
charities In Austria and Germany are innumer-
able. and his scheme for transplanting his IN
Fortunate Russian co-religionlsts to South
America cost what an ordinary person would
consider colossal fortune. In Egypt and Eu.
rope and Asiatic Turkey many schools
educational and Industrial. were founded anc
maintained by the baron For instruction
In 0aiicia he gave 100000. To Rus
sta he made the munifcent offer Of
10000 900 for public instruction. with this sole
proviso that no distinction should be made In
the application OF the funds as to race re-
ugton. The Russian government declined.
The baron was particularly fond Of the sports
OF the turf. and he maintained large racins
stables. His principal residence of late years
was In Paris, but great part Of his time wa
spent in England-l
PANS. April 22.-Leon Say, the dis
tinguished political economist, died at
2:30 this morning.
fJean Baptiste Leon Say was born In Paris
June Q. fs2d Following the traditions Of his
family. he devoted himself to the study Of po-
Itical economy. and for many years he was .
contributor to the Journal Des Debats, of
which he became the principal proprietor. He
was an unsuccessful candidate for the corps
1egislatif in 1s69, but in February,
1881. he was returned to the national
assembly. On December 2. 1879. he was
On whose downfall he naturally left the Office.
May "a. 1873. He again accepted the portfolio
OF finance In N. Bullets administration. in
March. 1875 Soon afterward he was elected a
senator He presided over the international
monetary conference, held at the foreign office.
Paris. In august. 1873 He retained tie posi-
tion Of minister of finance in the first
cabinet formed by President Grevy. In
April. 1889. he was appointed ambassador in
London. with view to his conducting the
negotiations for a treaty of commerce. and he
met with a cordial reception, but he returned
sequence OF his having been elected Or esident
OF the senate. He was reelected president OF
the senate January 20, 1881, and became minis
ter OF finance in the De Freycinet cabinet.
formed January 30. 1882. This cabinet, how
ever, was out of office in o few months. In
November, 1888, NJ. Say was elected president
OF the reunion Of the left center in the
senate. and made several political campaigns
In favor of liberalism as opposed to radicalism,
and he endeavored to build up o liberal repub-
Ecan party In parliament. He was one of the
founders OF the liberal republican union, and
In 1859 was an active opponent OF BouIangism
lie even presented himself for election to the
chamber Of deputies, and was returned for
Pau, after which he retired from the senate In
order TO ro-enter active political life
NJ. Leon Say, who was a great authority on
financial and economical questions, wrote
many books on the subject In December, 1874
the French Academy Of Moral and Political
Sciences elected NJ. Leon Say to the seat left
vacant by the death OF NJ. Dubois as ..membre
hbre." and In 1880 as 'membre tituIaire,' as
successor to NJ Michael CheyaIier He YEAS
elected Q member of the French academy is
1896. aa SUCCESSOR To NJ. Edmond About