The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-12-08

owe to their princes, the high contract
ing parties declare it to be their in
tention to sustain in their respective
states, those measures which the
clergy may adopt, with the aim of
ameliorating their own interests, so
intimately connected with the preser-
vation of the authority of the
princes; and the contracting powers
join in offering THEIR THANKS
TO THE POPE FOR WHAT He
HAS ALREADY DONE FOR
THEM, AND SOLICIT HIS CON-
SLANT COOPERATION IN THEIR
VIEWS OF SUBMITTING THE
NATIONS.
"Article A. The situation of Spain
and Portugal unite unhappily all the
circumstances to which this treaty
has particular reference. The high
contracting parties, in confding to
France the care of putting an end
to them engaged to assist her in the
manner which may the least COM
promit them with their own people
and the people of France by means
Of subsidy on the part of the two
empires of 20,000,000 of francs every
year from the date of the signature
of this treaty to the end of the war.
"Article 5. In order to establish
in the peninsula the order Of things
which existed before the revolution
of Cadiz, and to insure the entire
execution of the articles of the pres
ent treaty, the high contracting
! parties give to each other the recip.
rocal assurance that as long as their
views are not fulfilled, rejecting all
other ideas of utility or other meas
ure to be taken, they will address
themselves with the shortest possible
delay to all the authorities existing
in their states and to all their agents
in foreign countries, with the view
to establish connections tending to-
ward the accomplishment of the OBJ
jects proposed by this treaty.
"Article 6. This treaty shall bt
renewed with such changes as new
circumstances may give occasion for
either at a new congress or at the
court Of one of the contracting
parties, as soon as the war with
Spain shall be terminated.
"Article 7. The present treaty
shall be ratified and the ratification
exchanged at Paris within the spac,
of six months.
"Made at Verona the 22d Of No
vember, 1922.
"For Austria: Metternich.
"For France: Chateaubriand.
"For Prussia: Bernstet.
"For Russia: Nesselrode."
Senator Robert L. Owen not onl.
called the attention of the senate t,
the foregoing document on Apri
18th, 1915, but remarked:
~ ask to have printed in the Con
} gressional Record this secret treaty
because l think it ought to be ealle
: now to the attention of the peopl
Of the United States and of tn
: ;orld. This evidence of the confiic
between the rule of the few versu
popular government should be EN-
phasized on the minds Of the peopl
Of the United States, that the con
lict now waging throughout tn
! world may be more clearly under
! stood, for after all is said the grea
7 pending war springs from the weak
ness and frailty of government b
the few, where human error is ia
more probable than the error of tn
many where aggressive war is onl
permitted upon the authorizing vot
: Of those whose lives are jeopardize
in the trenches Of modern war"
Q Mr.. Owen clearly saw the issue
1t stake in the world war and re,
/, lqnized, no doubt, that Just as II
Roman Catholic Bourbon king {
France, the emperor of Austria, ii
I kaiser Of Germany and the czar {
: Russia, united in 1922 for the owe
9 throw of popular sovereignty, fire.
I dom of speech and Of press, SO Il
9 sultan of Turkey, the kaiser Of Ge
+ many and the emperor Of Austri
7 united in 1914, Note that In the S
cret Treaty Of Verona the despo