The Washington weekly post., 1900-09-18
Roosevelt and The pnthscnIlas

According 10 a special Paris letter 70
The Post. published in our edition OF Mon
day. the 18th. the RothsehsId brothers.
Alphonse and Gustave. respectively the
heads Of the great banking houses Of
London and Paris. are 50 unfortnnate-or
misgulded-as 20 disagree with the Hon
Theodore Roosevelt in a matter OF finance
and statesmanshIp.
II Is % be said Of course. that the
Rothsehilds are entitled 10 a certain rec
ognition. They have. after generations
Of patient ploddlng. attained a very high
position and accumulated inealeulable
wealth. They enjoy the confidence Of
every crowned head In Europe; they can
make or prevent wars at their discreiioa;
they can cripple nations and impoveEish
dynastles: they can equip navies and
mobilize armies: they can change tEe
map of Europe; they can smother impe-
rial ambitions or vitalize them as they
VIII. AS We have shown. however. they
have reached this eminenee through dec
ades Of humble burrowing and crawling.
They did not. as the result OF heaven
born genius. rise al a single bound 20 the
dizzy pinnacle OF greatness. Roosevelt.
on the other hand. Is 10 the contrary and
quite the reverse. Without any military
experience Whateyer-unless We count
few months with the cowboys In South
Dakota or chance visit 70 some militia
picnic at Peekskili. y. Y.-he plunged
fws 50 arrz~faon x-1r ahaVrad
the regular officers how 10 attend TO their
business; instructed Gen. shafter very
fully as to every move in the campaign:
charged San Juan Hi and captured 1t
slngle-handed, and even went so far as
70 give the Secretary Of War several very
valuable hints at a time when the latter
vas all at sea and did not know which
way 10 turn for safety. Now. with as
little preparation or experience, but with
the same inspired insight, he is telling
the round-eyed multitudes Of the far
West that expansion is the one hope Of
an honorable and glorious development
BY the United States. and that silver
coinage will reduce the nations wealth
by one-half, II not more, and brand Us
with eternal shame besides.
In The Posts Paris special, above re-
ferred 10, IL is stated that Mr.. A. Z.
Randle. a well-known resident OF Wash
ington. met the Rothsehilds at a French
watering place, Trouville, last month,
and on several occasions discussed the
questions OF expansion and silver coin
Es fIav TY
respondenee that neither OF them takes
the violent. not 10 say gloomy and hys-
terical. view which Roosevelt is dissemi-
mating in respect OF silver. They are
both Of the opinion that every country
should legislate for itself and not be in
fiuenced by any power" They agree In
asserting that the United .sstes cannot
compel Europe 10 accept silver in ex-
change for gold. but as no one has ever
proposed such a scheme, the declaration
is not OF Importance. On the subject Of
expansion. however. Baron Alphonse
speaks quite emphatically and to the
point:
zone Of the greatest dangers before the United
States is expansion While your country has vast.
undeveoped. rich Territories for you 10 seek addi-
tionsl responsibilities in foreign lands is unques-
tionably an error. and would in the end lead 10
international complications. in which Americas
credit would greatly suffer-"
Far be ii from US TO suggest that the
Rothschilds know as much about these
matters as Roosevelt. We do not venture
| TO pit the mere financier, however pow
erful, against the ring s-tailee. roaring.
/ buck-jumping prophet. Our duty ends in
/ calling attention to this disagreement, so
unexpected in itself and so unfortunate
| for the Rothsehilds.