The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-28
ROOSEVELT AND RoTHscHiLDs.
Washington Post. }


According to a special Paris letter to
the Post, published in our edition Of
Monday, the 17th,t he ROthSchild broth
ersY Alphonse and GuStave, respective
ly the heads of the great banking
houses of London and Paris, are so I'M
fortunate-or misguided-as to disa-
gree with the Hon. Theodore RoOSe-
welt in a matter of finance and states
manship.
1t is to be said. of course. that the
Rothschilds are entitled to a certain
recognition. They have, after genera
lions of patient plodding, attained a
very high position and accumulated in
calculable wealth. They enjoy the con-
f1dence of every crowned head in Eu-
rope; they can make or prevent wars,
at their discretion; they can cripple ma
lions and impoverish dynasties; they
can equip naVieS and mobilize armies;
they can change the map of Europe;
they can smother imperial ambitions or
vitaliZe them as they will. AS we have
shown. however, they have reached
this eminence through decades of hum
bic burrOwing and crawling They did
not, as the result of heaVen-bOrn ge-
MUS, rise at a single bound to the dizzy
pinnacle of greatness Roosevelt, on
the other hand, is to the contrary and
quite the reverse. Without any military
experience whateVer-unleSS we count
a few months with the cowboys in
South Dakota or a chance visit to some
plunged into the Spanish
war; showed the regular officers how
to attend to their business; instructed
General Shafter very fully as to every
move in the campaign; charged San
Juan hill and captured il single-handed,
and even went so far as to give the
secretary of war several very valuable
hints at time when the latter was all
at sea and did not know which way to
turn for safety. Now, with as little
n
same inspired insight, he is telling the
rOund-eyed multitudeS of the far west
that expansion is the one nope of an
honorable and glorious development by
the United States. and that silver COIN
age will reduce the nations wealth by
one-half, if not more, and brand US
with eternal shame besides.
In the Posts Paris special, above re-
ferred to, it is stated that Mr.. A Z.
RandIe a we'll known resident of
Washington, met the Rothschilds at a
French watering place, Trouville, last
month, and on several occasions dis
cussed the questions of expansion and
silver coinage with them II appears
from our correspondence that neither of
them takes the violent, not to say
gloomy and hysterical view which Mr..
Roosevelt is disseminating in respect
of silver. They are both OF the opinion
that every country should legiSlate
for itself and not be influenced by any
the United States cannot compel Eu-
rope to accept silver in exchange for
gold, but as no one has ever proposed
such a scheme, the declaration is not
of Importance On the subject of eX-
pansion, however, Baron AlphOnSe
speaks quite emphatically and to the
point:
"One of the greatest dangers before
the United States is expansion. While
your country has vast undeveloped,
rich territories for you to seek addition
al responsibilities in foreign lands is
unquestiOnably an error. and would in
the end lead to international complica-
lions. in which Americas credit would
greatly suffer"
Far be it from US to suggest that
the ROthSchildS know as much about
these matters as Roosevelt. We do not
venture to pit the mere fnacier, how
ever powerful, against the ring-tailed,
roaring, buck-jumping prophet. Our
duty ends in calling attention to this
disagreement, so unexpected in itself
and so unfortunate-for the Roth
schilds.