Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-10-15

| De sure, as, lor GA
ample, Barney Barnato, who recently
committed suicide, and is said to have
accumulated a fortune of 100000, 900
within the last ten years. Or one
own country, who turned everything
he 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 or control in total more than
$4,000, 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 a
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
house which bore the sign of a red
shield (Rothschild). This afterwards
gave name to the family, when Mayer
Anselm began to acquire large wealth
His great skill as an expert in coins
and curios brought him the friendship
of the Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, who
also made him his banker At a later
period it fell to him to be of great as
sistance to this German prince by con-
cealing his treasure of jewels and plate
at time of crisis. He restored the full
value Of these with five per cent inter
est, and thenceforward he became ia
vorably known to European courts as
financial agent always to be trusted
Before he died, in 1872, branches of tn,
Frankfort banking house had been es-
tablished at London, Vienna and Ma
pies, the Paris firm not being organized
till the downfall of Napoleon and the
re-establshment of the Bourbons
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. M. Roth
schild & Co., in 1898, in London He
flew to the stars, and grovelled in the
mud for money. He welcomed all
transactions, big or little, wherewith to
turn the bankers penny. He was the
most daring Spectator of his time on
the Stock Exchange, and the most sue
cessful. He had carrier-pigeons and
OF h i'm, ha
earliest news from the war centers OF
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 f5,000,000 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 f5,OO0,000, and the Engilsn
treasury was short, Nathan bought the
drafts at big discount, and at on,S
,ent the money. The stories about thi'
'emarkable man are almost endless
and show how strangely he was alik
equal to the most tremendous schemes
and the pettiest tricks of avarice.
The succession of this house fell tc
Lionel the eldest son, who was the
money maker, while the other three
sons devoted themselves to pleasure
and art collecting. One of these broth.
ers was Anthony, the first English
Rothschild to be knighted, and it was
his daughter who married the present
Earl of Roseberry, and presented hel
bridegroom on the morning of the nup.
tials with cheque for f2,000,O00, in.
closed in a gold box set with diamonds.
Lionel was made an English baron, but
before he was elevated to the peeraee !,
he was elected many times to the house
of commons. Each time, however, he ,
was retired because he refused to take
the oath ION the faith of Christian
Finally parliament got tired of this Gu
rious farce, and a bill was passed per-
hitting Jews to be sworn on the Old
Testament. This removed the politi-
raj disability of the race, in 1858, after
fight of eleven years.