Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-01-27
ROTHSCHILD.
On the American Future.
His Plan to Ally England With the
United States.

d The San Francisco Examin,
S printed an extented account. tn
n other day, Of the manner Ia which th
e Rothschilds had practically dictate
S the terms OF the arbitration treat
e In the Venezuelan affair, and that tn
j. purpose Of the treaty was to form
closer alliance between England ant
t our country as the best safeguard 0
} the BOthschild's financial interest
Now comes the further news that
Baron Nathan ROthschild has beer
making some Oracular utterances in
regard to America, its industrial con-
ditions and its future policies. lie
looks to the Mississippi valley as the
center Of the greatest activities in the
future and not to the Eastern sea-
board or to the Western.
East Of the Rocky mountains he says
there are great central regions OF
concentrated resources" the first OF
these is the mountain and mineral re-
giOn OF the South, reaching into tue
coal fields OF Ohio and Pennsylvania.
This region comprises about 100, 900
square miles. That region, settled as
thickly as Massachusetts,, will support
2O,OO0,0OO people, or settled as thickly
as Saxoney IL will contain nearly IOO,-
100000. ats natural resources" he
says, "are all Of the highest class and
constitutes natural magazine and |
workshop not equaled elsewhere in
the world"
The second Of the three regions he
located about the great lakes and Of
this Chicago is the point Of greatest
concentration. This region he says
includes part Of the British dominion.
The differences in the lake levels he
regards as sources OF unlimited power,
which some day will be utilized. The
third region he locates around Str |
Louis and this includes the coal, of
Illinois and Missouri, the cattle
ranges TO the west and the agricural
regions, OF the surrounding states in
Iowa, CT course. These are
the centers of future industry in this
according to Baron Roths.
'hild who is close observer and pro-
,hetic investor
Reading the baron's notes on ,
America, one sees but little hope for +;
New York. He says that the true
ines OF commerce are not those which
ross the continent from east to west.
rom New York TO San Francisco
With their high grades, but the lines
hat utilized the low grades between
he high mountain regions and the
Tater ways. The ST. Lawrence is TO =,
e the outlet northeastward and the
iississippi southwark. Transporta- :
ion along these ways, he says, can be
arued on at trlfling cost compared
nth the present systems across the
fountains to the Atlantic. 'sTbe
syel lands OF the Mississippi river
i'll give cheap computing rail and
ater carrying facilities for the cur
mt OF trade that must change toward
he south when the isthmithian can -
S are completed" Baron Roths- -
hid simply sees what has been seen
THIS country for some time aud re-
'gnizes the natural channels 10
arket. We are liable 10 see great
langes in the commerce OF this La
'untry and We believe that ii will BE- pc
'me more and more manifest as we OF
cover from the depression Of the II.
ist few years. 10 fact one can read len
Rothschild's notes that he also NJ. ter
i6utes part Of our hard times in an
is country TO overbuild and over
pitalization along more or les un. ND
.tural lines OF traalc. The rear. IS a
ngement had to be made sooner or 80
.er. aer,
The startling proposition made by me-
haron' 20 Lord Salisbury. is for ess' s'
E control Of the American eontinen, The
the United States and Englahd Ss. oss!
ntly. he thiaks that the changes of Il
Asia aud Africa Ia the near future '..,; 60
70 BE- revolutionary 10 every way.
ina and Japan are about 10 awaken ~
IA a long industrials sumb.r
ey viii surely assert themselves \