Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1885 — The Wealth of the Rothschilds. [ARTICLE]

The Wealth of the Rothschilds.

The combined capital of the great firm of the Rothschilds is estimated by persons pretending to know (although nobody but themselves can really know anything about it), at no less a sum than $1,000,000,000, fully one-half of which has been gained within twentyfive years. Their opportunities for making money, which are almost unlimited, are perpetually improved, s Their credit being of the highest, they might continue their immense banking business infinitely with little or ho capital. It is hardly more than a hundred years since the founder of the family and its fortunes, Mayer Anselm, of very poor Jewish parentage, was a humble clerk in a Hanover countinghouse. He afterward established himself as a banker in Frankfort. The discreet investment of $5,000,000 of silver, deposited with him in JiOfi by the Elector William, on the invasion -of his territory by the French, was the sonyoe of the enormous wealth of the firm. It was deposited without interest, but Rothschild paid interest regularly, fifid returned the capital to the Elector’s son seventeen years later. The Rothschilds have never been so rich as now, but they have nothing like the power they once had, probably because the capital of the world has so rapidly increased. It used to be said that kings could not go to war without their consent. Those days have forever passed.—A ew York Commercial Advertiser. "Well, this is a new wrinkle,” said « the pork-packer when they raised his pew-rent. “Gospel going tip and pork coming down." „ One of the hardest things for, a woman to do is to maintain economical notions while looking into a milliner’s window. -