Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-12-20

the maze Oh LOuuOll lidHiC, dHu you VIII
be told that Rothschild has a gift for
every man on the city force when 1t
comes to Christmas day. Ask a So
cialist why he does not include Roth
schild in his attacks on capital and
you will be told that they have invest
ed heavily in the erection Of model
dwellings for the poor and a plan that
does not permit Of more than per
cent interest for the investment.
A long human procession Of those in
need find their way, in person or by
mail, to the house Of Rothschild, and
none but the unworthy are refused.
It must, however, not be imagined
that Lord Rothschild Is one Of the type
of mortals who ooze all over with hu-
man sympathy. On the contrary whilst
he can be as genial as any other we'll
bred man, he has a tendency to be
curt, precise, and given to rather dry
kind of irony. If he Is a director Of a
corporation he has the habit Of attend
ing to all his duties, but he knows how
to condense them so that they will oc-
cupy a minimum of time. Corpora
tions meet in his suite of offices at
New Court. At the precise moment a
fiunky opens the door and as he ush-
ers - Lord Rothschild his lordship
has taken his seat, the minutes are be-
ing read and the order Of business Is
making rapid progress. Very often be-
fore a reporter has his pencil at the
right angle for convenient writing he
will hear Lord Rothschild murmuring,
Il thank you gentlemen for your at
tendance and l hope we will have an
equally prosperous period this year"
And that is all there Is to 1t. The
meeting Is over.
If there Is no waste Of time there Is
no carelessness. Rothschild invest
ments have a habit of going right.
Once Rothschilds put their name on q
corporation that went wrong. They
had been mislead by one Of the ablest
mineral experts in the world. New
Court had it's windows smashed by
would be purchasers Of the stock, even
application blanks had sold at a pre-
MUM, and, in the end, 1t all went to
pieces. Rothschild bought up all the
stock and stood the losses, matter OF
nearly tw enty million dollars.
In numerous comings and goinS5 the
writer only saw Lord Rothschild twice
excited, during the great Barring crisis
when the appeal was made to him to
help crush his financial rival, and he
refused in exceedingly warm terms
Again in 1892 Russia was very anxious
that Rothschild should loan her money
and when refused objected to any pub
licity, particularly as the reason for
the refusal was Russia's treatment OF
the Jews. But New Court was obdur-
ate, and it gave the late Sir John s
mon, the last of the sergeants-a
the privilege Of announcing why Rus
sia had been refused financial support
For Lord Rothschild Is as patriotic a
race Jew as any Of his forbears, and In
some matters as punctiltous as the
most orthodox. AS president Of the
United Synagogue he had the seat OF
honor at the official Jewish service on
the occasion Of Queen Victoria's dia-
mond jubilee. State and other digni-
taries were present, and they were all
coached to obey the orthodox rule and
remain behatted during the services
Yet when the orchestra started the
National Anthem even the Jewish wor-
shippers by common impulse began to
take their hats off. Lord Rothschild
gave one scornful look at all those who
would thus yield, and to signify his OPP
position pulled his hat down upon his
forehead. The imperious gesture won
out. When he was sworn in as men,
ber of the House of Lords Baron
Rothschild, as the first Jew to receive
the peerage, took the oath behatted,
with his hand on the Hebrew Bible,
thus consistently standing by the prin-
ciples his relatives had invoked when
they fought for the emancipation of
the Jews in England.
Until the new education law took the
Jews free school out Of the hands OF
the community this great school, at the
time with $500 pupils, the largest In
the world, situated in the centre Of the
district known the world over as Petit
coat Lane, was the pet Rothschild in
stitution. They not only paid all Its
deficits, in fact they financed the
school, clothed the boys and girls, and
provided the means for enabling them
to get a cheap lunch, anticipating In
this way all the ideas that modern So
biologists have suggested in connection
with the education of the masses. II
was from the hands Of Lord Rothschild
that Israel Zangwill received the first
big school prize that enabled him to
make his career And If there was one
good reason more than another why a
bright boy would attend this school for
the poor it was that through the teach
ers he might be brought to the atten-
ton of the benefactors Of the school
who would readily help him forward In
the battle for a first-class education.
When, therefore, his lordship reach
ed his sixtieth birthday and the Jewish
community of London determined to
make him some sort Of present, the
gift took the form of erecting new
wing to the Jews free school, we'll
equipped technical department with a
first -class laboratory sending the minds
of the agile young Jewish cockneys In
a new direction. Nathan Meyer Roths-
child, first baron, of Tring in the coun-
ty of Hertford, baron of the Austrian
empire, lord lieutenant Of Bucking-
ham, privy councillor and Knight
Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian
Order, is tall man, inclined to be
stout, who, when accoutred for riding
to hounds, looks good deal of a coun-
try squire. He, however, generally
leaves that side of life to his brother
Leopold, who takes a good deal of in
sporting instincts. When he was
younger the baron represented the
family on change, but nowadays he
transacts his business from his office
and only those who can show good
cause are shown into his room. He
makes no speeches, expresses few opln-
ions, but those who are keen In the
matter say that the real condition OF
public affairs can be judged from the
humor in which Lord Rothschild leaves
the governors room in the Bank OF
England when the discount rate Is set
tied. This taciturn attitude makes
what he says of Importance, yet when
some fifteen years ago he attempted to
reassure the bewildered depositors In
the Birkbeck Savings bank, in which
he had no interest, that he would stand
behind that institution, that it was SOL
vent, and he would help supply the coin
to meet the demand of the clamorous
depositors, it took the sacks of coin
with the "R" upon them to help these
panic stricken people to understand
that the Rothschild word was good.
Stability has, however, been the
watchword of the house ever since its
founder, Meyer Amschel, saved the
Frankfort electors fortune by convert
ing it into bills Of exchange, which
Napoleon could not have used even II
he could have got possession of them
No one can recall a scandal attached
TO the name Of the London members
and no one feels that they would at
tempt to use their money in order to
exert an improper influence upon the
markets, or upon governments. LORD