ROSEBERY'S RIGHES.

NZ Truth, Issue 152, 16 May 1908, Page 7

ROSEBERY'S RIGHES.

THE "GREAT LIBERAL PEER"

Meanly "Marries Money,"

In; the Person of Rothschild's Daughter.

Lard Rosebery, a posturine politician •with pleaty o£ pelf, but little principle, has lately beeu posturing a deal more than usual. Once ho was the leader of tho Liberal Party, but he soon proved himself to be as unstable as water. All that he seems to want now, apparently, is to strike an attitude before the eyes of the peonle of the United Kingdom. Yet he is biding his time, and it may be that he will eventually again, become Prime Minister. In politics one "never can tell." He had been very much disturbed m mind, recently, about a large number of members of the House of Commons, including members of the Liberal Party having; *oted for the "Ri^ht to Work Bill." This was a Bill introduced by Mr Ramsay Macdonald, the secretary of the Labor Party, to provide work for the unemployed. To the great astonishment of the British capitalist nrcss, 116 members of the House of Commons voted fdr the "Right to Work Bill," although against it there were 265 members. Among the 116 who voted for the "Right to Work Bill" were j John Redmond and 16 other members of, the Irish Nationalist Party, the consequence of the vote is that Lord Rosebery says that the country is being threatened by ' THE SOCIALIST SPECTRE. He is this reported by the London j I "Daily Chronicle" :=— Alter a reference to Free Trade, he said :. We may be driven— l trust m : God we never shall be— to an option between Protection and Socialism, and if it comes to such a choice^ I, for one, , havo no hesitation, disagreeable as the course may be, m preferring Protection. I will tell you why. Protection is a great evil, it is a great tyranuy. a srreat souixe of corruption. But Socialism (and here the speaker raised his hands above his head and spoke with great vehemence) is the end of , things — Emnirc, faith, religious faith, freedom, propcrty-pSocialism is the death-blow to all. ! Blatchford. of the London "Clarion," ; comments upon this by saytne : —

"Socialism." vis Lordshio gasps tllrourch chattering teeth, ''Socialism is the end of thinu^ !'" Which thina;^ ?. , Merely the things that lords love best r Empire ! religion ! oropertv !. Lord ■ Rossbery included freedom, but as he is prepared to accept ''evil and tyranny and corruption." I conclude that freedom was only put m for the aalre of rhetorical effect. As for Lord Rosebery : he does not matter. He is a nes;liu:ible quantity : k A POIJTICAL DERELICT The House of Lords does not matter the march ni Socialism cannot a .itonped by the Lords, nor by the Governihtait. The victory o£ Socinlisni will not be won m the House of Gammons; and cannot be -Averted by ~ka !d'-'-x: of Commons. The Sot:iaJ.ist movement is a process of evolution ; it s unfolding of the truth. Socialism) will not out an end to rnliKion ; it will liesin reiiftion, ■ • ■

Thus Robert. BJa'teMord, it will lie, •fiecn, lets off iio.selery very Hichtiy. He W not let oil ao 'lightly -y other mummh; oi Oic "Clrti-ioTa" st-aff : Aler. .M. Thompson "ilaaJs" with Lord -'Rf'.seLcrv. and irives ULs history ; lie ;;bo>iv« how tliu man foccxir.c rich l>v' marryinp: the daughter ot a Jcvndi iinancijer, wlioeb money, it is 'notorious: hart. Lean, u-cumulatod by rne.iii.s .cJiatcracefiil ;ind detestaisle. Says TlioJnpHon :—

That Lort) Roselierv possesses, no i idealism or 'i. truism ! . r -: 'lnmistai'-ahlv demonstr;ite.d by-vliis h'v.ry.. ,! I iim anxious to put >ltc uasß Lijortensively, but I must bcfrin by pointing ,j out that, tJioumh many. TCnclish noiilemen have sought the repair of their damaged fortunes by marriage wiWi American heiresses, an" English trcntlemnn must be • EXCEPTIONALLY HARD PRESSED by the nrreed of money-dominion, which wo regard as the root of most earthly evils and certainly t,he chief causa of poverty and unemployment, to seek alliance with a family whose 1 fortune Wi:s derived from such, a source as that which furnished the Rothschild milliards. Lord Roseberr married the daughter of Lord Rothschild. The latter's. great-grandfather. Ansflm Mayer, trudged the streets of Frankfort, with a hawker's pack upoa his v back, and m. his shop m the Judcngrasse bought and sold old clothes iivi old iron : to-day Lord\ Rothschild owns over 15,000 of the best acres m T3n<land, and of money, millions beyond count. Other representatives «t the family S DOMINATE THE FINANCES ! of ' Germany. Austria, Italy, and : France. What their combined wealth may he no man knows, but it is stated : that Baron Alphonse of Faris boasted : a few days before his death that while his father left him only 40 millions, he would leave his son 400 millions, j Now, 400 millions is a twentieth Dart. ' of the wealth of France I How did' i the Rothschilds get this colossal e;rip < on the earnings of French trade aad industry ? Legally, no doubt.. Bat dare any man say that it was acquired honestly ? I call to mind Charles Leandre's grim caricature of the old Rothschild, a cadaverous Jewish face, connected by bat-like wings with A BLOATED STOMACH.

representing the world, •which he spans and daws with the talons of a. bird of prey. It is a weird picture but fruitfully symbolic. Wo knew the beginnings of the Rothschild fortune. We know bow Anselm Mayer pressed and sold the starving peasants of Helse to England to hecome food for Napoleon's cannons. We know how he employed the fortunes of the Landeraves . Frederic and William m profitable speculations m munitions of war. We know how Nathan Mayer came to England, how he "cornered" cotton goods ia Manchester, how h« bought gold from the East India Company and sold it to the British Goternment at a high pront to corer Wellington's bills which HE HIMSELF HELD, and how he scooped the Londoa Stock Exchange by gambling on a certainty— his personal knowledge of the result of Waterloo. How much more is there that w« don't know of the tricks of "hish finance" by which the Rothschilds have secured the virtual command ot Eur»pean finance and politics ? To-day they aro th« masters ef Europe and arbiters oi peace and var, the slave-masters of democracy ; ani LORD ROSEEEHY T S THEIR MOUTHPIECE

m English politics. And '-the Liberal Party," says the "Daily Chronicle," "ever keeps a irarm place m its hearK for Lord RoseHow, tlieo. can the Liber 1 Part* cure the problem of unemployment ? As Victor Graysan said m the House of Comaflns "all wo want is the How, then, can the Liberal Party laughed as ha intended it should. That lau?;h will cost the Libers- 1 Party many ' thousands of votes before the hext General Election. They ;will lauirh best who lauJßh afterwards.