The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-01-03
war SHALL RosAlrlss 90,
The Grow ing Embarrassunents and BURDEN,
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Of Their Position.
&c is a matter perhaps of little impor-
tance, but as Observers interested in so-
cial rs we'll as political history we rather
wonder how 1.-THE royalties, " as people
begin to call tkam, will settle them
selves down into European society.
Their present position Is hardly toler-
able, Owing probably to some little mo-
ticed change in morals and to a relaxa-
ton of the rule against morganatic de-
scent being recognized, the princes Of
the royal houses, the people to whom
you must speak standing, are becoming
numerous beyond all precedent. There
are literally scores Of them, all equal by
birth, all claiming topmost places and
all more or less cut off from active ca
reers. They may be soldiers still il they
like, but they cannot be statesmen or
ambassadors or vieeroys, much less mer-
chants or captains of Industry. They are
not permitted TO marry out Of their
w caste, there are no islands for them
to conquer, and they must not take to
the new trade Of agitation. They are
not even allowed TO marry heiresses
without renunciations which are CALLING
to their pride. And what are they to do
for o living?
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 live with the wealthy
mobiles and all deprived of the means of
making money. The grand dukes Of
Russia. the archdukes of Austria, the
princes OF q own country, are becom.
ing clans, burdensome to the stocks
from which they derive their grandeur,
and ct . 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 men, and in the next generation
there will be royalties literally with
nothing, yet, If the present system con-
tinues, chiefs Of society and observed,
as before this generation even kings
were not observed except at intervals.
What r they to do? We can see
nothing for Id except for the dynas-
ties TO let them 60 to make a rule
that royalty Ehall only extend to,
say, the tenth person from the throne,
and that the remainder must silk back
among the people and win titles or rank
or fortune like everybody else. Their
pedigrees will help them somewhat
they spring from strong races, and they
may be, il they please, as well educated
as their neighbors. They can help ens
another IL they like, as Scotchmen and
Jews do, and once lost in the 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 as
hope, as incentives to specially honor
able lives
We are not joking in tho least or
writing what would DO particularly
foolish satire. The maintenance of poor
relations does actually press closely
and heavily ON most royal houses, and
in the next generation, il not in this,
win have to be met by some system Of
dropping the collaterals. The people
will not maintain q whole caste in idle
ness. The roads to activity once so wide
~ open to all Of royal descent are now
closed to them, and the family fortunes.
great as they are, are insufficient for a
burden which increases SO rapidly. Adj
NIT that the Austrian income from
property reaches e600, 900 a year-aI
very large admission-and still, If &C
archducal houses are to be kept up out
of it there will not be much left for the
sovereign to spend.
The royalties of Europe not actually
close to thrones will, we are convinced,
within 30 years be disestablished, and
we confess to a curiosity to see the form
that painful process will take. Will our
children live to see the princes a noble
but unpaid caste. like the descendants
OF C~onfucius, or will they see q Haps-
burg taken into partnership by the
Rothschilds or u descendant Of George
III seeking fees as q barrister or an ocu.
list? There IL a '.royalty"1--a real one,
too-who cures peoples eyesteven now
suppose his son takes pay for that
beneficial work? Seriously, the social
privileges which accompany a descent
from kings must within one more gen.
be confined somehow to a thin
and straighter line -London Spec.
tator.
The AAasocrats Sometimes Nodded.
DR. Holmes paid MS little heed to the
dictum OF the rhetoricians that a SEN
tence should not end with q proposition
or other important word as did the 9th
er author OF q work On rhetoric who
laid down the rule, "A proposition
should not be used to end a sentence
with. DIR. Holmes ended not only SEN