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Show ROTHSCHILDS OF THE EAST Great Western Family of Financiers Has Its Counterpart in the East. The Mitsui family of Japan have been called the Rothschilds of t he east; but while the fame of the latter has gone abroad over the world, the Mit-6uis Mit-6uis have remained practically unknown un-known except to a few western merchants mer-chants who have extensive dealings with the Orient. The European family fam-ily owes its great renown to the fact that for a century there has been no slightest stain upon its commercial honor. But its career, it should be remembered, re-membered, has been passed in a world where business Itself has been held in honor; while the Mitsuis. engaged in a pursuit utterly contemned by pub-, pub-, lie sentiment, for three centuries, in spite' of the demoralizing influence of the social ban, have been trusted by government and people alike, and have kept the honor of their name unstained. unstain-ed. Now. thanks to the new spirit animating ani-mating the cation, tbey no longer stand 0 conspicuously alone Other great commercial families are being ranged with this one. their members not only enrolled among the peers of the realm, but ranking with the merchant princes of the west as exponents of all that is honorable in the conduct of mercantile mercan-tile affairs. To their number are yearly year-ly being added many of the Samurai, or knightly chivalry of old, who once scorned all contact with trade, but who are now entering the field of business busi-ness affairs, determined to bring to the rescue of their country the fine sense of honor in which they were educated ed-ucated under the ancient regime That they will eventually succeed in their task, backed as they are by the instinct in-stinct of common honesty pervading the rank and file, there can be no manner man-ner of doubt. Arthur May Knapp in the Atlantic. |