Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-05

erty. The sum of f47O.000 per year
should leave the king free from finan-
cial anxiety, especially if he Is the
paragon of thrift and moderation
which our loyal newspapers would
have us believe. He has not to sup
port his widowed mother, as the state
provides her with a comfortable PEN
sion of 10000 year for life. He has
not to provide for his wife, as, in the
event of the kings decease, Queen
Mary will receive 97O,089- per year. He
need not bother about the Prince of
Wales, who is now only 16, and the
| owner of the Duchy of Cornwall,
! which yields him $4,000 per year.
This will accumulate during the
princes minority, so that by the time
he is q he will receive nearly half a
million savings" and the annual in
come to follow. Even then the wife
who marries him will receive a pre-
MUM of 100000 per year, and, should
she survive him, a further pension of
G 10000 per year Each OF the kings
other sons, on reaching 81, will receive
6 900 per year, and at marriage an
extra 6 $4,000 per year, which brings
SIlhC SldlS up " 81
900
Each of the kings daughters, on
attaining her majority, will receive
e 5000 per year. All this apart from
the cost to the state of what Mr..
Barnes called the decorative officials
of the royal household, the parasites
battening on the nation under the
shadow of the throne"
When we consider, in addition to
this little BILL the grants made the
family connections, and the fact that
the king must be crowned at great eX-
pense and buried at greater expense,
and that the expenses for the family
funerals usually fall upon the nation,
we may begin dimly to realize that
monarchy is rather an expensive lux
Jury. The liberals and tories hOwled
wildly at Mr.. Kerr Hardie when he
tamely suggested that the kings sons
and daughters would be able to lead
li3es of idleness, luxury, and ease. But
if they think that free gifts of large
sums per annum are incentives to in
dustry, we have misunderstood their
philosophy. Or do they think that
signing their names in large round
characters or making sumptuous
blotsA in visitors books, constitute an
equivalent of service for the money
received?
Taking all things into consideration,
we must admit that the figures of the
civil list compel serious thought on the
institution of monarchy. The costly.
yulgar, and altogether hideous display
Sc ho Loo II; f,,nora1 nc
wonder whether we could survive such
mother. The present shameless at
tempts to whitewash and defy COM
monplace personality, the inevitable
bulrs-eyes, exactly in the center OF
the target surprise visits to village
school children, the robust preference
Of spades and barrows for gold troWels
and caskets in planting rose trees and
laying foundation stones-if the sloppy
press imagines that this puerile make
believe imposes upon the modern pun
lie, it will find to it's chagrin that the
big child" is ito old" to blow the
watch case open. We are In daily
dread that when the officials present
The king with gold, jeweled key to
open something, he will wave 1t
,side and prefer to show them how he
IAN pick the lock. The public is
growing up very quickly, and the zeal
osu promulgators of monarchy mad
better realize it.
Also. when the workers are as par
ticular about the inspection of their
bill as are their capitalist brethren,
there will be a reduction of staff
Clarion.