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[BY D. THOMAS CURTIR.]
Mr. Schiff has lived in my country since 1865. He has been an American citizen since 1870.
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addition to his son, Mr. Mortimer Lifand, the subsidised organ of Germany Schiff, and Mr. Otto H. Kahn) are the in New York, reveal that he specialises brothers Faul and Felix Warburg Mr. in auch neutral" volumes as the anti- Paul Warburg and Mr. Jacob H. Schiff British "How Diplomats Make War," married sisters, and are, therefore, a ferocious and violent indictment of (1) brothers-in-law. Mr. Felix Warburg Viscount Grey of Fallodon and other married Mr. Schiff's daughter. The New Allied statesmer. York Warburgs are brothers of Herr Max Warburg, head of the powerful Hamburg Having now described in detail Mr. I ask my readers to study to-day's banking house of Max 31. Warburg & Schiff's affiliations and associations in article carefully, It has to do with a vital question. It may be boresome, but which is one of the chief financiers the United States, I would like to tell of the Hamburg-American Line and the something about his relations in and with it is necessary;
North German Lloyd. Mr. Paul War-Germany. American despatches published in the burg nominally retired from Messrs.
As I have said, one of his partners lives(2) British Press during the past two or Kahn, Loeb & Co, three years ago in (or lived) in Munich, and his firm has three days have informed this country of
order to accept a high Government Interlocking" arrangements with the the launching in the United States of the appointment to the Federal Reserve Warburgs of Hamburg. Mr. Schiff him- most aggressive and comprehensive move Board, the Government Department self visited Germany at intervals before yet made on behalf of peace-a Germanwhich has control of the Americau the war and has been received by the peace a German victory.
currency and monetary systems.
Kaiser at Potsdam. His chief interest The spear-head of the invement is the The present Loeb in Messrs. Kuhn in Germany, apart from banking part- well-known German banker in New York, Loob & Co. is Mr. James Loeb, son of nerships, was in connection with the Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, native of Frankfort one of the founders of the Arm (Mrwork of the Hilfsverein Deutscher Juden. on-the-lain. the cradle of Europe's great Solomon Loeb, a Cincinnati clothing Central Relief Association of German Jnancial dynasties,
manufacturer). Mr. Loeb fur the past Jews). This is a very excellent and well- ten or fifteen years has bade his home in organised charitable association, whose Munich and been, so to speak, the philanthropic work was not confined to
Germany but extended throughout every. He is the head of the hanking house resident German partner."
In 1915, when the Democratic Party's European country where there were Jews. of Messrs. Kuhn, Loob & Co., of New project to establish a huge Americanin need of aid. The association assisted York, which, with the exception of mercantile marine was before the counJews in Russia, in Roumanis, in Pales Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., is the most try, there were circumstantial reports tine, and elsewhere. Its managing execu powerful private banking coucelü in that Mesara, Kuhn, Loeb & Co. were in- tive is a member of the Prussian Diet. a North America. Mr. Schiff, a the terested in the Bill on behalf of German | well-known Liberal Berlin politician and wealthiest Jew in the United States, also shipping interests. They denied this writer named Dr. Paul Nathan. Dr. looks upon himself as the pope of the categorically, but in the balls of Con Nathan belongs to the Berliner Tageblatt Jewish community of the nation-gress and in the newspapers of the counpacifist group and writes in that organ. self-conferred distinction which, as I try the story was constantly cropping Mr. Schiff and Dr. Nathan have been snall show later in the course of this up, People, rightly or wrongly, attributed article, is by no means concurred in by significance to the fact that the Becxen tate relationship for many years
in connection with Jewish affairs. all American Hebrews, some of them my tary of the Treasury, Mr. William G. Dr. Nathan had something like carte- triends.
McAdoo, who stood sponsor for the Ship-blanche from the New York Jewish phi I believe that no good purpose can be ping Bill, had for many years been in lanthropist at one time, according to served by creating the impression in timately identified with Mr. Schiff's frm, what I learned in Berlin, to spend prom England that Mr. Schiff's peare crusade which Ananced some of Mr. McAdoo's tically any sum within reason which he is predestined to be abortive.
railway and tunnel enterprises. The thought necesssary to ameliorate Jewish Throughout the early mouths of the story ran that if the McAdoo Shipping conditions here, there, or anywhere. It war, and until recently, in fact, there Bill became law the Germag lines were was largely on Dr. Nathan's recom- was a temptation in England grievousty to sell their fleets interned in United mendation that Mr. Schiff ondowed a to under-estimate the power and import States ports to the Government, Messrs. great dewish technical college at Jerusa of German-Americanism,
Kuhn, Loeb & Co. acting as brokers inlem, where, as is well known, German 1 curdially are prople in Allnd the vast transaction. All these, I repeat, religions and sociological influence
timo. out of court us intorthy of serious con- were stories and rumours current at the always with an eye to ultimate political The Shipping Bill was defeated advantage has been rife ever since the out
and the stories "died out, They may Kaiser and Kaiserin's famous visit to the In my judgment, from my knowledge never have been anything but stories, but Holy Land, in the early nineties. both of conditions in my own country and thousands of Americans were inclined to could not ascertain in Berlin whether Dr. of Germany's gnawing need of food, a think there may have been fire beneath Nathan and Mr. Schiff have remained great deal of attention should be bestowed the smoke.
correspondence or relations of
any kind upon the manoeuvres of the "AméricaD
during the war. But knowing Mr. Neutral Conference Committee" and its
I should mention, before leaving the Schiff's munificence in all matters con plans (no doubt to be financed out of subject of Messra, Kuhe, Loeb & Co., that nected with Jewry I should think it ua- Mr. Schiff's plethoric purse) to stampede at least two of Mr. Schiff's partners-his likely that he had entirely severed his public sentiment in the direction of end son, Mr. Mortimer L. Schift, and Mr. connection with his co-worker, the Prus- ing the war through America's good. Otto H. Kahn (the latter & British sub-sian publicist, and politician, Jews have offices ending it, always be it rebem-ject) are regarded as outspokenly pro-suffered cruelly during the war in many bered, because Germany wants it ended Ally.
countries, and Mr. Schiff's purse, as Í now while she holds vast regions of I have been reliably informed that they have intimated, is never appealed to un- Allied land.
practically required Mr. Jacob H. Schiffsuccessfully where his co-religionists" Mr. Schiff throughout the
Dr. Nathan was co- war has and the other partners to agree, early fate is at stake. insisted that he is neither pro-German in the war, to enter into po transaction, customed in pre-war days to make many nor pro-Ally. He claims simply to be such as loans, which could accrue to the trips to Russia on Jewish affairs, and his pro-American." He admits that he is benefit of Germany or her allies during recommendations as to disbursement of anti-Russian. Others who claim to be the war.
relief funds were usually acted upon, "pro-American are the editor of the I believe their transactions in that without further inquiry, by Mr. Schiff. Fatherland; Mr. Jeremiah O'Leary, of | direction have been pretty much confined the League of Truth; Mr. Ridder, of the to ordinary and not very important local, Dr. Paul Nathan's coadjutor in the New-Yorker Staatszeitung: Dr. Hexamer, disbursements on behalf of the German management of the German Jewish Relief President of the National German-shipping, lines in connection with the Association is Berlin's leading merchant American Alliance ex-Congressman upkeep of their interned ships and crews. prince, Herr James Simon. Herr Simon Henry Vollmer, of Iowa, introducer of Mr. Kahn, as a good many people in is famed in Germany as the one Jew the Bill to place an embargo on export London know, is the owner of the beauti apart from Herr Ballin whom the Kaiser of munitions to the Allies; ex-Congressful St. Dunstan's estate in Regent's Park annually honours with his company as an Richard Bartholds, of Missouri, and has placed it gratis and complete at a private guest. Herr Simon is presi President of the Amerivan Independence the disposal of Bir C. Arthur Pearson es dent of the German Orient Society, and League and ex-Berlin Exchange-Pro-a hostel for England's blinded soldiers the ostensible excuse for the Kaiser's fessors Burgess and Sloane, of Columbia and sailors. I do not think there is any yearly sojourn at the merchant's palatial University. These gentlemen, like fr.question of Mr. Kahn's pro-Allyism. home in the Tiergarten-strasse is to Schiff, are all neutrals. They are so One of Mr. Schiff's banking partners is inspect Herr Simon's wonderful collec incorrigibly unbiased that they do not Mr. Paul Warburg, as I have said. tion of Oriental antiquities. Herr care a straw who loses the great war so When the United States Congress estab-Schiff, of course, has enjoyed the same. long as Germany wins,
lished the Federal Reserve Board." a intimate connection with his brother None of these distinguished American body which has to do with regulating the Jewish philanthropist Herr Sinon, the "neutrals," however, measures
currency system of the country, Presi- Kaiser'e intimate friend, as he had with stature, power, and influence to Mr.
dent Wilson appointed Mr. Warburg to Dr. Nathan, Schiff. Throught his great banking house.
Early in this article I said that Mr. a membership of the board, which enjoya which is intimately identified with the very wide powers in American banking Schiff's self-assumed position as leader
and financial affairs.
not unconditional- National City Bank, the Standard Oil
Mr. Warburg is of American Jewry Company, and the other ruling financial
an extremely able financier. On profes-y acknowledged by all his brethren. classes, his finger is necessarily in y
sional grounds no one has ever questioned New York's most eloquent and brilliant the wisdom of his appointment. But Rabbi, the Rev. Dr. Stephen S. Wise, is pies. Through his self-assumed hegemony more than one critic. has gone so far as on record as saying that Mr. Schiff, on over the Jews of the country, who, ns in England, are powerful and respected to suggest that his presence on the Federal questions of the war, in no respect is Reserve Board confers on Messrs. Kuhn, qualified to speak for American Jews as factors in every avenue of industrial, Loei & Co., at Washington, an in financial, political, and social life. Mr. Bucrice on Government policy and na-
a whole.
Dr. Wise is pro-Ally, and there aro Schiff is more influential than if he were tional finnuce, such as is enjoyed by no thousands of American Jews like him. merely a Wall-street magnate. He is, moreover, like so many of his race in all other banking institution in the country. One is Mr. Adolph S. Ochs, owner of the antrica, a philanthropist, -fact which know of no instance of any kind, howe Fork Times, which many people again adds to his network of affiliations. Mr. Warburg has ever in any direction Allied cause has had or has in the ever, justifying anybody in saying that consider the most effective champion the No great publie welfare project any- where in the United States ever appeals of special interests. The most and the Jew who is not pro-German is Mr. Oscar whatever exercised his authority on behalf United States. Another great American in vain for his aid and interest. In New York he is a generous patron of the fine worst people have ever said is that Straus, former Ambassador to Turkey.
"} Kuhu-Loeb obviously had more Politicians and political parties diet wire" to the White House than are always delighted to receive his sup-
any other banking group, for the port and campaign contributions. name is constantly identified with the How well founded this allegation is
His sonal reasons to which I have alluded. cause of clean municipal government and
have no means of knowing. political reform. He is what my couu- trymen consider, in the best sense of an oft-abused term, a leading citizen.
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SCENE IN THE DUMA.
M. Rodzianko resigned the Presidency
not only as President of the Dumnu but. of the Duma, considering himself insulted personally.
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I see none of these names associated with Mr. Schiff'a," American Neutral Con ference Committee." The position of (most of them are of German or Austrian many American Jews of prominence
extraction) is that their forefathers in I have never heard it suggested that the early decades of the Republic's exist there was any connection between Mence--particularly in the 'forties, 'fties, I do Mr. Schif the credit of believing know whom Mr. Schiff
Schiff and President Wilson. I do not and 'sixties-loft Germany as a protost him to be sincere in the desire to employ the recent close American Presidential PPression and persecution of their race,
supported" in against Prussian and South his great means and influence on behalf campaign. As the official German-Ame-They reared children who are no more of ending the carnage. But he is an rican influence was wielded against the German" than the Alsatians are Ger- extremely shrewd and sagacious man, as President it is not improbable that Mr.
man at heart or than the Czechs are well as an ultra-philanthropic character, Schiff opposed him too.
*** Austrian.” and I do him no injustice when I say ficant that one of Mr. Schiff's coadjutors rican Jews, or even German-American Hodzianko interrupted 11. Markoff, ond
But it is signi- that I think no one in the world realises on the American Neutral Conference Jews, as people in England, I find, are of the leaders of the Extreme Right, who It is a grave mistake to catalogue Ame the course of the Duma proceedings. Ma The insult complained of occurred in
more keenly than the head of Messrs, Committee Kuhn, Loob & Co, that Germany, if she
has been looked upon 85 is not to be humbled and broken, requires sellors-Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, Jews are to a large extent anti-Russian, blackguard." M. Markoff alleged that in one of the President's most trusted coun- prone to do, as pro-German, American retorted by calling him babbling peace at the earliest possible moment editor of the New York Evening Post but they are not anti-British or anti- while sho is still victorious"
inTheir relations a year or so ago were so possession of the
French. They know the obnoxious post-its previous sitting the Duma had insulted pawns "with which she thinks she
intimate that reports were current that tion which Jews for centuries have been high personages, and therefore he favourable to herself and her aspirations. ward M. House as President Wilson's tria, and I think the vast majority of
efore a Fence Mr. Villard had succeeded Colonel Ed. forced to occupy in Germany and as deliberately fnsulting the Duma in the person of the President. M, Rodzianke Mr. Schiff's position with regard to
man behind-the-throne."
those who are in the pro-German camp
thereupon left the presidential chair. international affairs is like that of tens of thousands of Germans who have American Neutral Conference Commit-man.
Another associate of Mr. Schiff on the are anti-Russian rather than pro-Ger the Vice-President, M. Markoff was On the proposal of Count Bobrinsky, This probably does not apply to obtained American citizenship. between the country of their adoption Sir Edgar Speyer, the real head of the talks English, even after fifty-one years
Atee" is Mr. James Speyer, a brother. Mr. Schiff, who is German-born and who excluded from the Duma for the next 15 sittings, M. Zamislovsky and other and Germany, in the case of a conflict, Speyer banking concern.
residence in the United States, with a Chamber.
Extreme Right leaders thereupon left the they would be for America. between the country of their birth and is an intimate friend of Count Bernstorff stances which suggest the wisdom of not all parties expressed their indignation
But as Speyer, who is a man of great ability, very pronounced German accent.
I have merely hinted at a few circum absence of the Extreme Hight spokesmen Ou the resumption of the sitting in the some other country or countries-as at and Professor Hugo Münsterberg, the ignoring Mr. Schiff's peace movement. present, for instance they are for Ger Harvard psychologist. DANY. Thus I cannot bring myself to toril's son. Count Günther von Bernstorf, His personal predilections are legiti-esteem for M. Rodzianko Count Berns-
at the incident and their symapthy and believe that Mr. Schiff's peace activities was a clerk in the New York Speyer bank mately pro-German. He has built up for at this time can be with a view to con- when war broke out. He has since been himself a position of immense power and serving the interests of England and her wounded in action by the British. No Prestige in the United States, always as an Allies. If they are not, then they must body in America is in any doubt as to fal banker. He has a fondness for med incidentally, to reap great glory for the
exponent of Deutschtuma. He is a resource- be activities conceived and put forth on where Mr. James Speyer's war sympe-dling in public affairs though he has land of his adoption, while at the same the sorely distressed land of his birth, but, behalf of the enemy of Eugland and her thies are. There will be very few of my never held any public office of conso time bringing the priceless boon of peace Allies. Mr. Schif is a logical man, as countrymen prepared to believe that Mr. every successful banker must be,
Speyer's activity on behalf of peace is to bask in the limelight in the same way
quence. It has long been bis ambition to all the warring peoples. It is a seduc- disinterested or neutral" He has also
tive possibility for a man of Mr. Jacob loudly asseverated his pro-American Mr. Carnegie has done,
H. Schiff's attainments, wealth, and tem- ism during the war. The presence of
To-day the opportunity is presented to perament, and his prosecution of it, his Mr. B. W. Huebsch, a publisher, on him or rather he has presented it to chase after what may now seem an Schiff's committee is also hardly designed himself to appear in the guise of to inculcate belief in the committee's chance not only to bestow blessings upon which Allied diplomacy is capable of airidescent chimers, deserve, in my judg- world-philanthropist. Ho divines 2 ment, the most unremitting attention neutrality. “obiectivity." Mr. Huebsch's advertisementa in the Father-
(Continued at foot of neat column.) devoting to it.
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Mesurs Kuhn, Loeb & Co. have many international ties, like the Speyers of Frankfort, London, and New York The identity and connections of the various members of the rate of ante peculiar interest in view of Mr. Schiff's peace activities. His principal partners (in
James