Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-02-19
Friday. February io, 1886.
PRoFLlGAoY VS.. POVERTY.


The financial budget of the king.
dom of Great Britain, soon TO be
brought into Parliament, when con-
sidered in connection with the recent
outbreak of the starving workingmen
of London, brings into sharp relief the
woeful contests existing between the
upper and lower classes OF that UNI
happy country. Al the head of the
list of pensioners, Of course, stalks the
family of the queen, which, with the
direct annuities, the profits of the i'm
mense government estates they re-
ceive, the expense of keeping up their
parks, forests, palaces, ETC., costs near
ly S. 900, 900 per annum. Then fol-
low the lists of salaries, most of which
20 to the great families already en-
dowed with princely estates. The
speaker of the House of Common re-
ceives So, 900 per year; the deputy
speaker, 81, 500; the first lord of the
treasury, Sc, 900; the lord chancellor.
s50,oOO; the attorney general, $S5, 900;
the solicitor general, $50, 700; the first
lord of the admiralty, 800; the lord
advocate, SIC. 1000; three lords of appeal
in ordinary, $50, 200 each; two judges
of the privy council. $4,000 each;
lord chief justice, 10000; the master
of the rolls of the court of APP
peals, $4,000; twenty-eight other
judges, SIS, 900 each, several secreta-
ries Of state and other cabinet officers,
$4,000 each; The upper grades of the
civil service are paid as lavishly, and
the countless middle grades receive
from 5000 to $4,000 each. The
church dignitaries fare with still
greater sumptuousness. The arch
bishop Of Canterbury receives $4,000
per year; the bishops of York and
of London, each $4,000; and thirty
three other bishops an average of
$4,000. Foreign ministers follow in
the princely line, with salaries rang
ing from $50, 900 to $4,000 each. The
attaches of this service fare proper
tionately well. The governors general
of the colonies receive from $4,000 to
$4,000 each. while the higher officers
Of the army and navy thrive in equal
measure. Beside these enormous stl-
pends, there go with these positions
in most cases fine houses or palaces,
the free use Of ;horses, carriages, etc.,
etc. Then there are the immense ex-
penses attendant upon the great
standing army, maintenance of the
navy which rules the seas. and list
of pensioned officers on half pay, and
vast civil list which causes u plain
republican to gasp for breath when
he confronts 1t. Added to all this is
an amount of nearly $4,000, 900
paid last year to maintain
the paupers of the kingdom-a sum
greater than the entire cost of the gov
eminent Of the United States during
the year preceding the war of the re.
bellion-and which the recent riots
admonish the ministry that they must
greatly increase the coming year.
Considering the tremendous impost
which this criminal profigacy annu-
ally infiicts upon the property owners
of England-and by a peculiar re-
version of justice the smaller the estate
the greater is the proportion OF tax
assessed-tbe condition of the people
OF this tax-eaten country is indeed
pitlable. More particularly is this the
case with the workingman, whose
wages are small in proportion as his
assessment is great, and he Is yearly
compelled to face the inevitable ten
dency of the systematic rich growing
richer and the poor poorer. That such
bread riots as these which last week
caused the people of London to turn
pale with fright are not periodical In
cidents of this deplorable condition of
affairs, IL due to an education In pow
erty and suffering which have ex-
hausted the life md spirit out Of the
masses of the people, and transformed
them into practical beasts of burden.
The english laborer and servant is in
this respect but trifie removed above
the ox.-Mipneapolis Journal.
ONE Of the items in the evidence in
troduced to break down the Storey