Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-03-29
RULERS SALARIES.
POpe's Annual Income Is About
S24,0O0,0OO.
The Sultan Is Best Paid of Temporal
Monarchs.
The Minor Kingdoms Of Eu'oFs Are
Generous to Their Rulers.

| and societies of the several states Wis
tied expended 100000 for entertaining
the brother of the German Emperor
| during two short weeks, ii is not to be
| wondered at that royalty-ridden Eu-
| rope is grooming under the burden of
the enormous civil lists, or salaries,
! paid to it's rulers, big and small.
\ statistical table prepared by Court
Councillor DIR. Joseph Kurschner, gives
the payroll of European monarchS at
a glance, only the King of Great Bri-
tain, the Car Of Russia, and the Sui
tan of Turkey being omitted for rea-
sons stated later on. In obedience to
international demands, the figures are
given in marks. The amount in dollars
and cents may be arrived at by divid-
ing the amounts by four.
| Pope Leo is credited with an inc ONE
of 96,0OO,O00 marks, or $24,000,00O, per
annum, every penny of which flows
from the pockets of devoted Catholics,
as his holiness never touched penny
of the paltry sum which the kingdom
of Italy offered him in exchange for the
loss of sovereignty over the states of
the church. AS the number of Catho-
lies all over the world is estimated at
over 30O, 900. 900, the percentage OF the
individual contribution, on the head OF
the faithful is not very considerable;
in fact, only one-third of the amount
the people of Germany pay their
princes per head Of population.
1t goes without saying the Pope uses
but an infnitisimal portion of the
| Peters pence for himself and the court
he is obliged to keep up, the cost of the
| administration of the Catholic church,
and the salaries of its dignitaries, with
out bishoprics or other 'livings, alb
sorbing the bulk of the Holy Father s
great income, which is under the care
of the Reverenda Camera, Cardinal
, Oreglia, vice chamberlain OF the
church, being the high lord treasurer.
, The Office of the papal treasury is in
the Vatican, and there are twenty
heads of departments, all prelates of
, high standing, and several hundred
clerks.
OF the amounts diSburSed, one can
, gain an idea from the statement that
of the 1882 personages making up the
Catholic hearchy-cardinals, patrl-
, archs. rch-bishops, bishops, apostolic
. delegates, Wears apostolic, projects
APOSTOLIC, abbots with episcopal juris-
diction, and other prelates-more than
800 are without charge, their sees be-
r ing in ''infidel regions" not yet Chris
tanned. The Pope has to keep them
o all out of his own purse, as likewise he
must pay the salaries of the princes of
/ the church so-called, the cardinals.
{ sixty-two in number, who receive $4,000
Q each per annum, besides perquisites.
I'll 1t is therefore, easy to see where the
Pope's money goes, particularly as the
Holy Father also pays the entire eX-
7 pense of a household of some LOO
: persons, including guards, and some OF
l his diplomats accredited in the mon
arches of Prussia, Russia, Bavaria,
Austria. Spain, Portugal Belgium. and
Monaco, and in the republics of France,
Colombia, Nicaragua, Peru, and san
Domingo.
. The care of the sacred apostolic pal
: aces, libraries, museums and galleries
is likewise n heavy drain on the Pope
revenues. while his private and ofilciai
almoners distribute many millions
! yearly without anybody being the wiser,
for Leo's left hand doesn't know what
his right performs in charities. This
: is not counting the periodical distri-
4 buttons of aims in Rome at Easter,
\ | Christmas, and in the month of August
III The statistical table neglects to state
what the Sultan of Turkey is paid for
his work, because his sublime majesty
doesn't see fit to take the world into his
HI confidence as to the exact price he sets
!, upon his services. 1t is known, how
III ever that he reserves for his personal
uses no less than 100000 900 per annum'
this tidy little sum being payable each
Ill quarter, three months in advance
All Thirty million dollars he must have
war or peace, good times or bad, but II
there is anything left in the till after
that's paid, he takes as much of the re-
mainder as he wants. AS the Ottoman
empire has less than 25,000,000 inhabi-
Ill tants, every Turk therefore contributes
no less than $1.25 per annum toward
\ the maintenance of Abdul Hamid, ant
4 as much more as that gentleman likes
to possess himself of.
The $4,000 900 (and as much more
ii as he can geD form, however, only
|. part of the Sultan's regular income
He derives. besides, an annual revenue
of $10.000.000 from the customary pres
ents of tributary princes and high state
j functonaries. who of course, squeeze
the money out of their subjects.
The Turks are retrograde race
u innocent OF p0lltlcal progress anu 'h'
III spirit Of the times, but here are The
Germans, boasting of parliament an'
other modern political institutions, ye
III next in line to the Turks in the mat
III ter of taxa ton for royalty. True, the!
pay on the average but twenty cent
per head against the Mohammedan
Sl25 but even that amount is Nv
I times the rate exacted by the autocrati
Car from his subjects.
The Kaiser, in his capacity of Kin;
of Prussia. is the highest paid ruler IL
\ Germany. Besides this stipulate'
Inmount he receives diverse salaries a
an army officer and colonel of Il doZel
or more regiments, also about half
million for charitable purposes. Al
! told his income from the state foots u
to more than S4.250.000 per annum.
The other German states and statelet
pay their sovereigns proportionally high
that is. out of all proportion to the wor
asked of them and TO their importance a
D politicians and governors. There is Lipr4
4 for instance, with a population of les
II | than 10000 inhabitants and SO insight