Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-27
THE COST OF Kings.

1t is interesting to compar
ihe expense OF maintaining
laonarch on a throne, aud tha
OF supporting President in tn
executive chair of u republic
For many years the SALARY o
the President Of the Unite,
States was twenty Ave thousan,
u year The sum indeed, iii,
not represent the entire cost {,
! The country of the executive OF
lice, The White House wa
supported, to some extent from
he purse Of the people. an,
there were sundrs other suml
/ spent on the Presidents Office
The salary OF the president wal
raised to fifty thousand dollars /
year during Gen. Grants term
and continues ut that figure, and
he whole expense to-day ol
he Presidential Office il proba
bly, something less than one
hundred thousand dollars year
Is.
The cost OF kingship Ia the
various monarohics Of Europe
much greater, even in the
smaller nations The sover.
eigns, in the older days, used TO
spend what they pleased out oil
the public revenue. They were
mostly absolute, and would i'm.
pose taxes at will aud 80 raise
m indefinite income for their
own display and pleasure.
This is still the ease with the
Gar of Russia. whose expendi.
lures are never reported, and
cannot be estimated The Sui
tan of Turkey, too, has power
to raise all tho taxes he can
squeeze ont Of his impoverished
and indolent subjects, and can
not DO cal ed to account for his
spendings. But ia al other
European moBarchias. the soy.
ereign is restricted. Absolute
despotism with them has been
replaced 10y constitutional sNa
tenn. The Emperor OF King can
only spend what is voted him
by Parliament or Congress. a
device new to this eentury call.
ed the Civil laisi, has been adopt
ed by neail every monafchics !
country, and also hy the Faencl
.ltepnblic
The Civil List is designed to
provide tho sovereigns with 2
liked income. II comprises a
lumber of items or heads Of OK.
penditures, and these are discus
-8edy aud -nansad mon each year
ny tho seVfraI IegTTTTrTTv-
les. OF course, each sovereign
has greater or smaller private
property OF his own, as q family
inheritance, with which liis sub
.ects have nothing 10 do. The
revenues he receives from the
Civil List, therefore, are what
might DO called his salary in his
public capacity, aud by no means
show What his entire income is.
The English Civil List, for in
stance, providea Queen Victoria
with an income Of about two
of dollars. But she has
also a large fortune, so that all
hor receipts for the year reach |
ovea three million dollars. |
Germany provides the veteran
Emperor William with Civil |
Lat of about three millions Of
which it must be diili- |
cult for 8 monarch SO frugal !
and simple in his tsstes and |
habits to get rid of it ia tht
course of o year. His priva G /
moreover, add at
least a million TO that vast sam.
King Humbcrt Of Italy's Civil |
List is three million eighty thou
sand dollars a year, somewhat |
larger than that of tho German
Emperor, while young Alfonso
of Spain has only about a mil
lion and half, 30 impoverished
are the people OF his historic
Kingdom. The lesser nations
are of couTE9, more economical.
The sovereign of Denmark has
Il Civil List allowance of two
hundred and seventy.fre thou
sand dollars year, which, bow.
ever is at least three times what
our Presidents costs, and much
more, il we consider the differ
enc- in population between Dan
mark and the population Of the
United States The King Of
Holland gets three hanured
thousand dollars, and the King
of Greece two hundred and
twenty Thousand dollsrs.
Thus il is evident that, with
out regard TO any other aspect
of the difference hotvaen mon.
archies and republics; at least
theformsr IL much more costly
luxury ofthe two to tho masses
Of the people who have to pay
the bills.-Nouth's Companion.
COLONIAL. Arr, TDCaACY.