The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-04-14

y lisha, British secretary of war,
made himself somewhat of a ma
tional hero several months age
when he shook UP
0rudin IN the army COM
Race to Get mand, upped the
Army Ready youngsters n d
sent the oldsters
back to their club chairs. The re-
port of his ultimatum demanding a
change of foreign policy is a stand
out in the current news.
There was something like conster-
nation among British conservatives
early in 1887, when Prime Minister
Chamberlain named the incidentally
Jewish Mr.. Hore-Beisha for the
war post. There was no hint of
anti-Semitism in their attitude, but
just then certain optinists among
them were trying to tool Britain
into the German orbit, and there
were alarmed predictions that Hit
Ter would be enraged and seek quick
vengeance.
That didn't come off, and the
new war secretary started
whirlwind army cleanup and
all-arOund recOnditiOning cam
paign, to the satisfaction of all
hands. Seventy -nine-year-old Sir
Ian Hamilton, who had been in
command at the Dardanelles,
said, "Thank God we are under
proper soldier and will not be
shot sitting down."
He has spent a lot of time badger.
ing his elders, and still has many
of them to work
CteOer az on, as he is only
Bddgering forty-three. When,
His Elders a brash young Ok.
oman, he ran for
parliament, his opponent tagged
him as "the nonentity of the col
lege bench" He nailed this on his
masthead, spoofed the opposition
cleverly, and romped in.
He was dispatch carrier in the
war, then major, reporter on
London newspaper, with convent
ent underground pipelines to the
front page and the headlines.
He became financial secretary
of the treasury in 1882 and later
minister of transportation. He
is a demon for detail and has
swarmed all over England, in
speeding equipment, barracks
and army kitchens.
He is of medium stature, round
headed. with reached, grazing hair,
unmarried and given to night for
avs, checking this or that detail of
the military establishment.
"A T LEAST six times in the past
$50 years, the Rothschilds have
been counted out, and they have
always come back-like John Bar
leycorn and Old
Conquerors King Cotton. Now
Old Stuff to the arrest of Bar
Bank Family on Louis Won
-. Rothschild is re-
ported from Vienna. The era which
founded their dynasty was disquiet-
ingly like this one. The Romanoffs,
and the Hapsburgs, Matternich and
Disraeli and all the other kings,
conquerors and statesmen came to
terms with them.
Baron Louis is the head of the
house. The catastrophe fall of the
Creditanstalt bank of Vienna in 1881
was supposed to have wrecked
them.
A few weeks later, they were
shOveling money into American
securities, and, it was reported,
snagging a stray million here
and there by a fast overseas
play on francs, an old family
custom.
Louis and his brother, Alphonse,
were living in regal splendor when
the Creditanstalt
Deer Parks failed. They had
and Castles great estates and
Faded Auay magnificent art
galleries, shooting
lodges, huge Franz Lehar chorus
of retainers, deer parks and brace
of medieval castles. Much of these
holdings slipped away, as Louis,
with somewhat less than the usual
family zest and acumen in finan.
cial affairs, turned to a study OF
philosophy and the arts.
It is 1872 years since Napoleon,
after Austerlitz, made mince-meat
of the Holy Roman empire and even
more ruthlessly dismembered Aus
tria. Nathan, James and Solomon
Won Rothschild, sons of Mayer Ans
elm, founder of the line, not only
saved their holdings, but extended
their dominions to the remotest cor
ner of Europe.
These vast ramificationS of
their fortune, one of the largest
in the history of the world, were
in land, steel, coal, manufacto-
ries and munitions, and, in later
decades, in oil and hydrOelectric
power.
Libraries have been written about
them, one notable record being 70.
las "L'Argent." Their continental
money matrix has been stabilize1
at times. It is possible that the
Vienna jail door clangs the end Of
a dynasty and an epoch-but moi
quite certain. History will tell.
g Consolidated News Features.
1 WNIJ Service