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can financiers. The transfer of this amount from London to
New York during a period of a few weeks caused a fall of prices
equivalent to £115,500,000! The absorption of the same gold
caused a corresponding advance in the prices of certain American
securities. By first selling English securities and buying American,
they had merely to transfer so much gold and afterwards
reverse the transactions by buying and selling respectively and the
game was won! As a well-known financial writer stated at the
time: 'These speculators were playing upon two tables at the same
time—one in London and the other in New York—with the certainty
of winning on both/ "
When a country has been impoverished and disorganised by
a stock-exchange coup such as has just been mentioned, an attack
on the property of the Catholic Church and the religious orders
can be successfully launched by the Masons and other anti-supernatural
elements. A typical example is to be found in Spain
between 1834 and 1840. The Rothschilds were anti-Carlist in the
war of succession, which was going on, because they feared that
the success of Don Carlos would mean that they would lose the
famous Almaden quicksilver mines. By a "bear" operation on
the stock-exchange the Rothschilds sent Spanish securities tumbling
down. The Prime Minister, Count Toreno, was forced to
resign, and the Rothschilds realised a profit far beyond the amount
of the bribe they had given him previously. Count Toreno was
succeeded by Mendizabal, a Jew by race and religion. He had
been speculating in Spanish securities but had "got the tip" from
Nathan Rothschild when the Rothschilds decided to bring about
the slump. Mendizabal increased the Spanish deficit. All that and
more can be learned from Count Corti's Reign of the House of
Rothschild. It will serve as a commentary on the laconic information
we get in the Catholic Encyclopedia (article on Spain)
wherein we read: " . . . the Liberals ruled, except in the provinces
occupied by the Carlists, and the moderate ministry of Martinez
de la Rosa . . . was succeeded by those of Toreno and of
Mendizabal, who put up the possessions of the Church for sale
(1836)." The Catholic Encyclopaedia omits to say that all the
convents, with some exceptions, had been confiscated in 1835. 1
*"More than one hundred years ago, the Church in Spain was disestablished
and despoiled of all real property, while the Religious Orders were
suppressed and dispersed under the laws framed by Don Jose de Mendizabal,
a Finance Minister of that day." (The Conflict in Spain, by the Marquis
de Merry del Val.)