El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-19
WAR FINALLY
DIVIDES THE
R0THSCHILD5
Great Family Of Financiers
No Longer Can Deal
With Each Other.
FORTUNE DATES
FROM NAPOLEON
BY HERBERT TEMPLE.

r ONDON, Eng, Dec. 1s.--As the
great war has set royal relative
- against royal relative. SO it has
set croesus against croesus Of the same
Rothschilds, though they are not the
only family of financiers with branches
in several European capitals: me
ROthschiIds whose fortune was founded
in war and who have thrIven by taxing
advantage Of the necessities OF Kings
are now arrayed on both sides OF the
There was much humor for those who
saw the point in the Germans Selling
BARON Lambert de ROthschtld, head OF
the Belgian family branch, and hold
ing him as a hostage Tor the Brussels
war indemnity The gold taken from
his reluctant pockets may wei nave
been used to pay the interest on Baron
AnseIm's loans to the Austrian govern
ment. The money would still be in the
The Austrian RothschiIds are liberal
supporters Of the Austrian war loan,
but their efforts are counteracted and
more by the activities OF the EhSilsh
and French ROthschuds-
Anselm ROthschild. the head Of the
Austrian ROthschilds. and Lord Roths-
child. the head of the English RoIhS-
mayor Amschet Rothschild, the founder
OF this family. They are therefore
second cousins. But they are even
more closely related than that For
late Baron Lionel de ROthschild and
thus he is also first cousin to Lord
ROthschild.
A United Family Until Now.
The ROthschlds have remained an
absolutely united family, as witness
their extraordinary series Of marriages
between first and second cousins un-
paralleled outside a few royal families.
1t has also been their pOiicy-whether
they were Austrian, French or English
to play more or less into each others
hands in their financial operations. But
so far as the financing of this war is
concerned this is no longer possible. As
a financier an Austrian ROthschlld
must know nothing Of an English
ROthschild. As head of the British
people king George takes no count OF
the German emperor, though they are
first cousins. So with those who are
princes in the realms Of high finance.
Founded Fortune in War.
The Rothschilds laid the foundations
of their stupendOus fortunes in war
loans during the great struggle against
Napoleon. A family of Germanlc
origin, all their financial support was
given to the side that was seeking the
overthrow Of the Little Corporal Even
Rothschild's great uncle James, who
founded the French RothschIlds, was IN
Paris secretly collecting French coin
to forward to Wellington for his ad-
vance in Southern France just before
NapOleOn's first abdication-
Since these days other Germanic
families have initiated the ROthschilds
with great success, and established
branches working together in the lead
ing capitals of the world. 1t is
probable, that a war. between England
and Germany never entered into their
calculations, and certainly the man in
the street may accept it as a fact that
the last thing in the world that they
as financlers would desire would De
an Anglo German war. Such a conflict
must obviously cause them embarrass-
ment in certain directions. As the
bitterness Of conflict deepens families
and firms may be called upon by tha
nations to be less international and
more national, or even entirely ma
tional.