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publication of the "romance" in America by
the Putnams. The attempts to suppress the
book have .already taken a legal form. The
Rothschilds applied to Justice Ballhacho, Eng
land's newest member of the bench, in cham
bers, for an Injunction against Nash. As re
ports of such proceedings in camera are pro
hibited, no mention of the case has been made
i- any English papers for fear of incurring
prosecution for contempt of court. Judge Bail
hache's hearing on the application for an injunc
tion occupied 20 minutes, it is stated. The
counsel for the Rothschilds argued that the book
contained libelous matter and instanced a story
which he alleged it contained of how Nathan
Rothschild, founder of the London branch of
the iirm, made a large amount of monoy after
the battle of Waterloo. Nathan was in Paris
when he received private word that Napoleon
had been defeated on the Belgian battlefield.
He posted to London in hot haste and arrived
at the stock exchange next morning, worn,
weary and travel stained. The London stock
exchange was at that time alive with reports
that Wellington had been worsted and stocks
were tumbling. Rothschild, who could have
stopped the slump with a single word announc
ing Napoleon's defeat, said nothing. His woe
begone appearance, due really to the fatigue of
his hurried journey, was attributed to his de
pression over the financial losses he was sup
posed to have incurred, and some of his friends
openly expressed their sympathy with him.
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ACCORDING to the story told in "The Ro
mance of the Rothschilds," Nathan not only
allowed them to remain under that false impres
sion, but encouraged it. Meanwhile, his agents
were.quietly buying up all the consols they could
obtain in preparation for the rise which followed
the receipt of news that it was Wellington, not
Napoleon, who had gained the day on the field
of Waterloo. As the counsel for the Rothschilds
cited this story as ground for injunction Justice
Bailhache interposed the remark, "It's a long
time since Waterloo." Other arguments ad
vanced by the Rothschilds' counsel were equally
without effect on the judge, who summarily dis
missed the application for an injunction. Notice
of appeal was given by the Rothschild lawyers,
and itjs expected that unless the Rothschilds
prefer to avoid the publicity of a trial in open
court the matter will soon be heard from again.
Mr. Nash, when seen recently, refused to speak
of the matter as being a case which was in a
sense sub judice. In another form the story of
Nathan Rothschild's Waterloo coup appears in
the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The sensitive
ness of the Rothschild family was recently
shown by their action toward the play, "The
Five Frankfurters," on its production in Ger
many and later on its being brought out here.
The objections to its production here are re
ported to have taken the form of representations
to the lord chamberlain's office. The censor,
however, saw no reason for not licensing the
play. This was given at the Lyric theater with
such great success on the opening night that the
subsequent short run of the piece was a cause
of much astonished comment. Among the
theories suggested to explain the mystery was
that the withdrawal of the piece in apparently
the. full tide of success was not unconnected
With financial inducements, which the house of
Rothschild was well qualified to make.
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REFERRING to Philippine independence, the
. Newport News Times-Herald says: We con
cur Jn the view of the president on the duty of
the United States to the Philippine Islands. We
do not desire that this nation shall pursue a
policy of "imperialism," as Mr Bryan called it
in 1900. And wo do desire that the Filipinos
shall have independence when they are pre
pared for it. But they are not prepared, and to
set them up at this time in a government of
their own would be not only a mistaken kind
ness, but rank desertion. Commenting upon this
statement, the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot says.
So far aa we are aware no proposition is pend
ing in congress which propoyeB to bestow Im
mediate self-government on the Fl Up inos. The
bill introduced by Mr. Jones, of virfionna'Ienand
to the gradual relaxation of the suzera nty now
exercised by the United States and the final
emancipation in 1? 20. To us it appears that
this extension of the term of probat on to .a
people over whom we possess no right except
that of conquest and purchase from a power
whose title was only that of a usurper is abun
dantly long to satisfy any obligations this oun
try lias assumed in the premises The nie win
'never arrive when the pro-consuls and vice
The Commoner.
satraps that are directing Philippine affairs now
win certify that the wards they have in charge
are fitted to be entrusted with management of
their own estate. They are exercising largo
powers and drawing munificent salaries, the
enjoyment of both being depondent on preser
vation of the existing status. Naturally they
exaggerate the impotence of the natives to run
a civic establishment of their own. No more
did the carpet-baggers in the south during the
period of reconstruction ever bring themselves
to admit that their services could bo safoly dis
pensed with. The pleas that wo make for in
definite occupancy of the Philippines are no
sounder than those which Spain advanced for
holding the Cubans in subjection, and In re
straining the liberties of this alien people wo
are violating the principles on which our own
rest. The only justification of our present rela
tionship to the islands is that we stumbled into
it as an accident of war and that the resulting
entanglements were not foreseen and could not
be at once unravelled without harm to all in
terests involved. Wo are in a false position and
should seize the earliest practicable moment for
getting out of it.
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TTE Berlin foreign office has revived the late
Prince Bismarck's order that any German
diplomat marrying a foreign woman would he
expected to retire from Germany's diplomatic
service. Referring to this order, a writer in
the Washington Herald says: It was learned
here recently upon high authority, however,
that the revival of this obsolete order was In
effect onlv a warning; that members of the
German diplomatic corps might still continue
to marry American women, or women of other
nationalities, provided that thev selected wives
who were acceptable from a social standpoint
to the German foreign office. The revival of the
old order, it was said, is merely a warning
atrninst mesalliances. And rumor has it that a
German diplomat recently took a foreign wife
unto himself who was not acceptable to the
powers in Berlin, -and that Ihe warning is a
direct consequence of this marriage. Tt is tmo,
nevertheless, that the German foreign office
mai-es no secret that it prefers that the wives
of the diplomatic corps be German women rather
than foreigners. The Idea Is that German wo
men will have the interosts of the countrv more
at heart than could a foreign wife of a German
diplomat.
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O-HTNTTCSS von BFRNSTORFF, formerly Miss
Jeanne Luckmeyer. of New York, wife of
the German ambassador, comes of German
parentage, and was chieflv educated abroad.
She married Count von Bernstorff when he was
an officer in the German army and prior to his
entering the diplomatic service. Tt is not likely
.that the newly revived ruling will in any way
affect German diplomats who are alreadv mar
ried to foreigners. And there probably will be
no change at the German emhassv. This coun
trv has been well represented by the many
charming and brilliant American women who
have married German officials. Countess von
Waldersea. formerly MIps Lee. of New York,
married Gen. Count von Waldersea. who was for
years before his death military instructor to the
present kaiser, then crown prince. She held
undisputed swav at the German court, and It
was oneniv acknowledged that she held the rod
of empire in her crraepful hands, and by her tact
ind wit has maintained for many years her
enviable position at Berlin. Baroness Speck yon
Sternberg who before her mn-rrinee was Miss
T.ilUnn Mav Laneham, was extremely popular In
Washington when her husband, the late Baron
von Sternburg, was German ambassador here.
Ml?s Ledvard. of Detroit, married Baron von Ket
tler whom she first met in Wasb'neton when
vWinK relatives here. He was killed in front
of the foreicn office in Pekin at the outbreak of
the Boxer uprising in China, where he had been
Bent as special envoy by the German emperor.
Countess von Goetzen. formerly was Mrs. Lay.
and he? charm and beautv are still remembered
In Washineton. Her husband was also In the
German diplomatic service. A recent marriage
ofTSJnSnn diplomat and an American glrhjs
that of Miss Constance Hovt, daughter of the
lite Solicitor General and Mrs Henry Hovt, and
Bron "on Shimra. Amone the American wo
St, who preside at the embassy and lections
here are Mme Tusserand. wife of the French
nacnrtnr- Mme. de Gama. wife of the am
ambassador, Mme a Baknn,eteff. wife of
?hT Russian ambassador; Countess von Bern
the Russian ai Q ambassador; Mme.
storft wlXe,fAfof the minister from the Netner
Smnte of the Spanish minis-
tor; Mme. Havonith, wife of the Belgian minis
ter; Mme. Ekcngron, wlfo of the minister from
Swedon. Other American women, whose hus
handB arc stationed hero In tbo diplomatic corps,
aro Countess de Chambrun, wife of tho military
attache of the French ombassy; Mmo. AH Kull
Khan, and many others. An Aiuorlcan wlfo has
been considered a groat assistance to a diplo
mat in Washington, and some years ago England
took great pains to sond Sir Michaol Horbort
as ambassador hero. Lady Herbert was formerly
Miss Wilson, of Now York, and they wore ex
tremely popular In Washington. His sorvlco In
America was cut abort by his untimely death.
In 1905 a regular epidemic of International mar
riages prevailed among Wnah'ngton women. In
February, Miss Elizabeth Glover, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Glover, married Jonkeor de
Marcoes von Swlndorln; during tho same month
Miss Alice Ward married Senor Don Juan Rlano,
then secretary of tho Spanish legation; during
the following June, Miss Frances Newlands,
daughter of Senator Francis Newlands, married
Baron von Bredow, of Germany, and Miss Allcta
Van Roypon, daughter of Hear Admiral Van
Heypen, married Baron Koff.
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THE native American wage earner Is rapidly
disappearing, writes W. Jott Plauck In tho
Atlantic Monthly. Along with him havo also gono
his working companions of former years, tho
English, Irish, Scotch, SwedcB, Norwegians and
Germans. Only one-fifth of tho workoro In our
mlnos and manufacturing plnnts today aro na
tive Americans. About one-tenth of our wago
earners aro the native born children of paronta
from Great Britain and Ireland, Germany and
the Scandinavian countries. More than three
fifths of our great body of Industrial workers
aro southern or eastern Europeans. This typo
of Immigrant has had no industrial training
abroad. Ho has also brought with him a low
standard of living, and has been tractable and
subservient. As a result, his competition has
exposed the native American and oldor immi
grant employes to unsafe or unsanitary working
conditions, and has led to or continued tho Im
position of conditions of employments which tho
Americans and older immigrants havo con
sidered unsatisfactory and, In many cases, un
bearable. He has boon inclined, as a rulo, to
asquiesce in the demand on tho part of the em
ployers for extra work or longer hours. The
presence of tho recont immigrant industrial
worker has also brought about a standard of
life with which tho native American and oldor
immigrant employes have been unwilling, or
havo found It extremely difficult, to compete.
He has no permanent interest in the community
in which ho lives or tho industry in which ho la
employed. His main purpose is to live as choap
ly as possible, and to save as much as ho can.
Everywhere improved machinery and mechani
cal processes aro eliminating the elemont of skill
formorly required of employes, and aro making
it possible for the unskilled foreign-born work
man to enter occupations which havo hitherto
been beyond his qualifications. Unless the na
tive American and oldor British or northern
European wage-earnor can do something to ele
vate the standards of tho recont Immigrants,
their competition In tho higher occupations will
bo followed ,by as serious remits ag have al
ready attended their invasion of tho lower
grades of the industrial scale.
HIS HOUSE ANT) IITS UK ART
His house Is wide and high and long,
Its walls aro thick and hard and strong;
By able hands the floors wore laid,
By skillful men the stairs were made;
Within his house are prizes brought
From far-off treasuries of art,
But gladness Is not in his thought,
And peace is never In his heart.
His house is splendid to behold,
Its roof is high, its turrets bold;
Upon a noble height it stands,
The view is fair which it commands;
Its locks aro strong, its treasures rich,
His couch is soft, his linen white,
But ever in each darkened niche ';
A specter lingers through tho night. .,
His house is big and firm and fair,
His vintages are old and rare;
Great masterpieces grace the walls,
The servants hurry when he calls;
But always he can hear the sighs
Of children toiling at his looms,
And mothers with accusing eyes
Come nightly stealing through the rooms.
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