Here it is, in black and white, the beginning of the whole web of treachery, deceitand Breach of Trust that has caused two World Wars, multiple internationalbankruptcies, and the current plot to overthrow private property and selfgovernment worldwide:CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE. 64th CONGRESS, 1st SESSION VOLUME 53,PART 7 Page 6781 25 April 1916, by Senator Owens: "I wish to put in the RECORD the Secret Treaty of Verona of November 22, 1822,showing what this ancient conflict is between the rule of the few and the rule of themany. I wish to call the attention of the Senate to this treaty because it is the threatof this treaty which was the basis of the Monroe doctrine. It throws a powerful whitelight upon the conflict between monarchial government and government by thepeople.The Holy Alliance under the influence of Metternich, the Premier of Austria, in 1822,issued this remarkable secret document : [American Diplomatic Code, 1778 - 1884,vol. 2 ; Elliott, p. 179.] SECRET TREATY OF VERONA The undersigned, speciallyauthorized to make some additions to the treaty of the Holy Alliance, after havingexchanged their respective credentials, have agreed as follows : ARTICLE 1. The high contracting powers being convinced that the system ofrepresentative government is equally as incompatible with the monarchial principlesas the maxim of the sovereignty of the people with the high divine right, engagemutually in the most solemn manner, to use all their efforts to put an end to thesystem of representative governments, in whatever country it may exist in Europe,and to prevent its being introduced in those countries where it is not yet known. ART. 2. As it can not be doubted that the liberty of the press is the most powerfulmeans used by the pretended supporters of the rights of nations to the detriment ofthose princes, the high contracting parties promise reciprocally to adopt all propermeasures to suppress it, not only in their own states but also in the rest of Europe. ART. 3. Convinced that the principles of religion contribute most powerfully to keepnations in the state of passive obedience which they owe to their princes, the highcontracting parties declare it to be their intention to sustain in their respective Statesthose measures which the clergy may adopt, with the aim of ameliorating their owninterests, so intimately connected with the preservation of the authority of the princes ; and the contracting powers join in offering their thanks to the Pope forwhat he has already done for them, and solicit his constant cooperation in theirviews of submitting the nations. ART. 4. The situation of Spain and Portugal unite unhappily all the circumstances towhich this treaty has particular reference. The high contracting parties, in confidingto France the care of putting an end to them, engaged to assist her in the mannerwhich may the least compromise them with their own people and the people ofFrance by means of a subsidy on the part of the two empires of 20,000,000 of francsevery year from the date of the signature of this treaty to the end of the war.' ART. 5. In order to establish in the Peninsula the order of things which existedbefore the revolution of Cadiz, and to insure the entire execution of the articles ofthe present treaty, the high contracting parties give to each other the reciprocalassurance that as long as their views are not fulfilled, rejecting all other ideas ofutility or other measure to be taken, they will address themselves with the shortestpossible delay to all the authorities existing in their States and to all their agents inforeign countries, with the view to establish connections tending toward theaccomplishment of the objects proposed by this treaty. ART. 6. This treaty shall berenewed with such changes as new circumstances may give occasion for, either at anew congress or at the court of one of the contracting parties, as soon as the warwith Spain shall be terminated. ART. 7. The present treaty shall be ratified and theratifications exchanged at Paris within the space of six months. Made at Verona the22d November, 1822.For Austria :-----------------------------------------------------METTERNICH.For France :------------------------------------------------CHATEAUBRIAND.For Prussia :---------------------------------------------------------BERNSTET.For Russia :------------------------------------------------------NESSELRODE.I ask to have printed in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD this secret treaty, because Ithink it ought to be called now to the attention of the people of the United States andof the world.This evidence of the conflict between the rule of the few verses popular governmentshould be emphasized on the minds of the people of the United States, that theconflict now waging throughout the world may be more clearly understood, for afterall said the great pending war springs from the weakness and frailty of governmentby the few, where human error is far more probable than the error of the manywhere aggressive war is only permitted upon the authorizing vote of those whoselives are jeopardized in the trenches of modern war.Mr. SHAFROTH. Mr. President, I should like to have the senator state whether in thattreaty there was not a coalition formed between the powerful countries of Europe toreestablish the sovereignty of Spain in the Republics of South and Central America? Mr. OWEN. I was just going to comment upon that
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