Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-04-16

The Growing Embarrassment bod burdens
Of Their Position.


The Growing mbarras,mcn and nurdens
Of Their Position.
re is o matter PERHAPS Of little impcr.
ianco but ns Observers Interested ia so
cinl ns we'll as political history we rather
wonder how 'tho royalties, " az people
begin to call them, win sottlo them
selves down into European society.
Their present position is hardly tolor-
able. Owing probably 10 some little no
ticod change ia morals and to o relaxa-
ton Of the rulo against morganatic de-
scent being recognized, The princes Of
tho ro5ll houses, the people 90 whom
you must speak standing, are becoming
numerous beyond all precedent. There
are literally scores of them, all equal by
birtls all claiming topmost places and
all more OF less cut OF from active a
rears. They may be soldiers still II they
like, but they cannot be statesmen or
ambassadors or vicoroys, much less MGR
chants or captains Of industry. They arc
not permitted TO marry out Of their
own caste, there are no islands for them
to conquer, and they must not take TO
the new trade Of agitation. They aro
not even allowed to marry heiresses
without remuneration which arc CALLING
60 their pride. And what are they to do
Tor n living2
The question is becoming a pressing
one. for, rich as all royal houses are, ex-
cept our own, no family wealth will
suffice to maintain hundreds Of families
all wanting to 1.-Two with the wealthy
mobiles and all deprived Of the means Of
making inouey. The grand dukes Of
Russia, the archGukes Of Austria, the
princes Of own country, are bccom-
ing clans, bnrdensome to the stocks
from which they derive their grandeur,
and at a certain point. now by no means
distant, that fact will be officially recog-
nized. There are royalties even now,
who, in English eyes, would be account
ed poor mon, and in the next generation
there will be royalties literally with
nothing, yet, If the present system con-
tiuucs, chiefs Of society and observed,
as before ihis goneiation oven kings
were not observed except at intervals.
What are they to do? We can SEQ
nothing for it except for tho dynas-
ties to let them go, to make a rule
that royalty" shall only extend to,
say, tho tenth person from the throne,
and that the remainder must sink back
among the people and win titles or rank
or fortune like everybody else. Their
p~odigreos viii help them somewhat
they spring from strong races, and they
may be, if they please, as well educated
as their noighbors. Thoy can help one
another If they like, as Sootchmeu and
jews do, and once lost in tho COM
monalty the strange jealousy of them,
which now keeps them out Of public
life, would speedily disappear. They
could adopt names as the mobiles sons
do in business and gradually would
come to remember their pedigrees only
as sources Of family pride, and, let us
hope, as incentives to specially honor
able lives.
We are not joking in the least or
writing what would be particularly
foolish satire. The maintenance of poor
relations does actually press closely
and heavily ON most royal houses, and
in the next generation, if not in this.
will have to be met by some system Of
dropping the collaterals. The people
will not maintain a whole caste in idle
ness. The roads to activity once so wide
ly open to all Of royal descent are now
closed to them, and the family fortunes,
great as they ..ce, are insufficient for a
burden which increases so rapidly. Ad-
NIT that the Austrian income from
property reaches 5000, coo a years
very large admission-and still, if 60
archducal houses are to DO kept up out
Of it there will not DO much loft for the
sovereign to spend.
The royalties OF Europe not actually
close 10 thrones will, we are convinced,
within 80 years be disestablished, and
we confess to a curiosity to see the form
that painful process viii take. win our
children live to see the princes a noble
but unpaid caste, like the descendants
Of Coufuciug, or Will they sec a laps
burg taken into partnership by the
Bothschilds on q descendant Of George
IL seeking foes as a barrister or an ocu-
list? There is a ''royalty''-a real one,
too-who cures peoples eyes even now
suppose his son takes pay for that
beneficial work? Seriously, the social
privileges which accompany q descent
from kings must within one more gem
Grafton b%e'confined somehow to a thin
ner and straighter line. London Spec
tator.