Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-09-26
THE KINGS INCOME
GENERAL PUBLIC KNOWS LITTLE
ABOUT IT.
GREAT CIVIL LIST
English People Generally Disposed to
:. Grant Liberal Means of Support to
=. Their Rulers and the Descendants
:. of the Latter-some Big Grants.

.. OF LnG EdtIcF-oOHc Dig
The civil list, as they call the APP
preparations for the maintenance of
the king and his court, voted by par
lament brought two surprises, says
London dispatch. In the first place it
was much smaller than the public gen.
orally expected it would be, and the OPP
position to it was much less. Three
hundred and seventy-six votes were
cast, 300 in favor and only 81 against.
The civil list carried total of
$2,350,000 for the king, $25O,000 for the
queen, 100000 for their sons and
daughters; continues the annuities
granted many years ago to the broth
ers and sisters of the king, which
amount to $365,000; allows 100000 a
year to the duke of Cambridge, the
cousin of the late queen, and $4,000
TO the Princess Augusta, his sister,
who is the wife of the blind grand duke
of Mecklenburg, making a grand total
of $3,230,000 which is an increase of
s335,0O0 over the amount paid in
Queen Victoria's time. 1t is also a
moderate appropriation in comparison
to those granted to some other sover-
eigns of Europe. The following will
show the appropriations for royalty
by the European powers:
Russia, $13,751 900; Germany,
1929, 1875; Austria, $S.625,OOO; Eng
land, $3,230,000; Italy, $3,210,000;
Spain, 81 $4,000; Belgium, $1,375, 900;
Saxony, $941,OOO; Bavaria, 100000;
Sweden, s56O,OOO Portugal, 100000;
Holland, $3.50, 900; Denmark, s33O,000;
France, $2,130,000.
II was expected that King Edward
would ask at least $3,000,000 for him
self alone in place of the $2,000,0O0
granted to Queen Victoria, for his
great uncle, King William, had an al.
lowance of s2,500,00065 years ago,
when the purchasing power of the
pound sterling was double what it is
now and the ruler of England was not
obliged to pay the expenses of many
court ceremonies and public functions
which are charged to him these days.
furthermore everybody familiar with
the subject knows that the revenues
from the crown property have more
than doubled since 1887, when Queen
Victoria surrendered them to the pub
lie treasury in exchange for a per-
manent civil list of 100000 and a
promise from parliament to provide
literally for her family. The govern
ment and not the queen got the best
of this bargain. Owing to careful
management and the increased value
of the lands the treasury, during the
greater part of the queens reign, has
enjoyed act profit from the proceeds
of the crown property after all the ex-
penses of its management and the civil
list and the allowance for the royal
family have been deducted. It is esti-
mated that this profit has aggregated
at least $50, 900, 900 during the 60 years.
In 1887 the surplus revenues from the
woods, forests and lands of the crown
alone were s1.075,0OO. In 1900 they
were $2,125.000, and there are several
'other sources of revenue to be added.
II is popular mistake that the
100000 year which was paid to
Queen Victoria throughout her reign,
was in the nature of salary for her
services as sovereign, just as $4,000
a year is paid to the president of the
United States. This impression has
been strengthened by the frequent at
lacks that have been made by the
radicals upon the expense of support.
ing the royal family and the continual
complaint that they are burden up
on the British taxpayers. The ruler
of Great Britain and the royal family
are by no means pensioners upon the
national treasury. The sovereign pos
sesses an immense amount of property
by right of Inheritance which
is entailed and cannot be
alienated or disposed of except during
life. Formerly all the lands of the
realm belonged to the king. but by ex-
travagance and generosity of various
sovereigns they had been reduced to
such degree that parliament, upon
the accession of Queen Anne. passed
law prohibiting any further aliena.
ton. and at the same time gave the
crown perpetually the revenues from
certain sources which are more or
less regular
King William originally made the
arrangement have alluded to. under
which the revenues from these sources
were collected by the finance officers
of the kingdom and paid into the
treasury in exchange for certain sum.
and. following the example of his
mother and her predecessors ON the
throne. King Edward has agreed to
surrender all of them for an annual
appropriation of S2.2SO,000. although,
like them. he retains for himself the
revenues of the Duchy of Lancaster,
which amount to about SS00,U00 a
year. and for his son those OF the
Duchy of Cornwall. which have been
the property OF the heir to the crown
for more than three centuries.
The civil list. as It is called. is not !
voted in lump sum- however but is |
,llotted to special purposes. like the |
provisions of the annual appropriation