The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-11-13

+ mense wealth. 9th
ers have sh oW n
equal talents for
. money making, to,
be sure. as, for ex5
ample, Barney Barnato, who recently y
committed suicide, and is said to have
accumulated fortune Of $30O,OOO,0 900
within the last ten years. Or one
might cite the late Jay Gould in our,
own country, who turned everything
ne touched to gold. But in the case
OF the Rothschilds,, all the different
banking houses conducted by the sep.
arate members support one another in
great transactions. so that they are
practically one at need AS they rep
resent OF control in total more than
S2,00O,0 100000, they may be set down as
constituting the greatest money power
in the world, says writer in an Amer +
lean journal. - =.
| The founder of this clan of money
KINGS, Mayer Anselm Bauer, was
money-lender and bric-a-brac dealer,
who did business in. the Jewish quar-
ter of Frankfort, Germany, during the
latter half OF the eighteenth century, in
/ a house which bore the sign of red
| shield (Rothscfild). This afterwards
gave name to the family, when Mayer
Anselm began to- acquire large wealth.
lEHis great skill as an expert in coins
rand curios brought him the friendship
of the Landgraye of Hesse-Cassel,. who:
also made him his banker, At later
period it fell to him to be of great as
sistance to this. German prince by con
ceallng his treasure, of jewels and plate
i at time of crisis: He restored the full
J value, Of these with five per cent inter-:
Il est: and theme ceforWard. he became ia
vorably known to European courts as a
financial agent always to be trusted
Before he died, in 1912, branches of the
Frankfort banking house had been es ,
tabllshed at London, Vienna ard Ma,
| pies, the Paris firm not being organized
! till the downfall of Napoleon and the
! establishment Of the Bourbcns.
The greatest financial genius of the
Rothschild family, though there have
been many of great talent, was Nathan
Mayer, of the second generation, who
established the house of N. NJ. Roth
schild & Co., in 1898, in London. He
flew to the stars, and grovelled in the
mud for money. He welcomed al.
transactions, big or little, wherewith to
turn the bankers penny. He was the
| most ~
the Stock Exchange, and tho coostt snc-
cessful. He had carrier r-pigeons ami
1ast-sailing' boats to bring him the
earliest news from the war centers cf
Europe, and so help him to manipulate
Stocks. He followed Wellington's ar
my to: Waterloo in person, and had re-
lays OF the swiftest horses and fast
yacht lying in the harbor at. Ostend,.
SO he arrived at the London Stock Ex-
change. after the battle, twelve hours
ahead of any. public announcement of
the victory, and made f5,O00,0 900 by one
OF the most tremendous series of spec
ulations in history. In 1910, when.the
Duke OF wellington, then. commanding
in Spain, drew on the English govern !
ment for, f3,00O,0 900, and the English
treasury was short, Nathan. bought the
drafts at a big discount, and at once
sent the money. The stories about this
rema arkable man are almost !: endless;
and show how strangely he was alike;
equal to the most tremendous schemes
and the pettiest tricks of avarice. .s..yg ,
The successionaof this house fell. to
Lionel, the eldest son. who: was the
money maker, while the other thfees
sons devoted themselves to pleasIEe
and art collecting. One of these BROTH!
.ers was Anthony, thez=: f ST: ISL
Rothschild@ to be knighfed and it Was
his daughter wing ma rrieedd the. present
Earl Of Roseberry, and presented i her.
bridegroom on the morning of the nup-
tials with a eheque ffprsss2 ,oeo,00 90, IA :
closedain a gold box set with
Lone. was made All Eng glfsh b3lsbn
+ before he was elevated to tlie;' 'peera#s
he.Was. elected many times to TIE hous4,
of commons Each Time, how hfss
was retired because he refused rs take.si
the oath s On s:aIhe faith ofra.C
I Final par Itam snt ggot: fireE Of this cu-
rious farce, and a bill lEsEa saI1asyed per-.
n1itting Jews to.be syNprn on the: Old
Testament. his removed Il pol iti-,s
cal disability Of the rae 1858 ,ssafttes:
"a fight eleven years ,s.
s s.E7 s -
rhes Reason 1s Plauis bie,s 81 ssss. j IS, s..
Morga won der Why II. sagti,
priests never get married
DON you Krloy Wiomen haNesstas
confess stheir irnperfections to the
priest Morg Yes, Of course; Il,
4 but low hen what makes yeu