Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-18

4 munications for his rarely train.
| and the ministry Of the interior for the
horde Of policemen, spies and agents
pruvocateurs who surround him. As
contributor tn charities and patron OF
art. the czar plays no role.the so-Called
imperial charities are financed with
practically forced subscriptions from
rich merchants. The car spends some
money on the support of the notorious
l MON of Russian Men, whose function
Is To fight the reform movement, to put
inconvenient politicians out OF the way.
and TO carry out periodical massaCres
Of Jews. His thrift goes TO the length
of Unconscious humor. Lately the st.
Petersburg official newspaper Rossiya
printed the following paragraph in All
seriousness; The car has been
pleased TO give t12 TO policeman Skvort-
sen who lost an arm I'm a fight with
tcrrorists. His majesty ordered the Sl2
To be paid out of state funds
RUSSIA STANDS FIRST.
II is Fixed rule I'm Europe that the
poorer the people the more they must
pay their ruler. That is why Russia
stands first and why Austria Hungry
comes second, and pays its sovereign
more than rich Germany pays hers.
The Emperor Franz Josef receives
81 $4,000 yearly Half Is paid To him
by Hungary as king and half hy
supports 80 archdukes. arChduchosses.
and other relations, and ne supports
them literally His private fortune
brings in about Sl.15o. 000 a year. He IS
hard-up monarch and spends third
Of his wealth in charity, mostly in
rigidly Roman Catholic charity on
himself he spends hardly anything. lie
lives plainly, and occupies only one
side OF an ill-paved courtyard In the
colossal Hofburg at Vienna, and any
morning he may be seen driving down
the Ringstrasse IN a victoria. drawn by
an Indifferent horse He lives thus
because he is a tired and wise old man
thoroughly sick ~ the pomps and
Nanities Of existence,
Kaiser Wilhelm II is another hard
up monarch Like most Of his an
cestors. and nearly an the German
princes In history. he Is a spendthrift
As German emperor he gets no salary
but he Is allowed $1,000 a year for
representation" As king OF Prussia,
Wilhelm II gets S3.s2S.s24 year or
this sum he gets 81 ,923,S2i under the
law Of 18th or January, ls20. which
gave his then predecessor a civil list In
exchange for large estates which he
handed over t. the nation. In 1859 tho
Prussian sovereign demanded and got
a rise OF $4,000 year; and finally,
when the present kaiser came 10 the
throne he got a last rise " SN15.OOo-
IN all rises amounting 10 N-,NtNtNWu a
year. These rises, and the original
81 923. s2i make up his present official
income.
KAISERS INCOMES.
That Is only part OF the too much
list" The kaiser and his relatives also
receive large Incomes from estates
and family trusts some trusts date
20 the seventeenth century. These were
founded ny the Great Elcctor. The in
come is received today In 1888 Fried
rich Wilhelm III left behind him
crown treasure 81 sS.750.000 which Is
still In existence, Hair Is called the
"Notpfennlng." or Emergency Penn
and must not be touched except under
extreme circumstances. This thrifty
king also left q large sum IN trust
for younger sons Of HOhenzollern
blood So that the total annual In
comes OF wilhelm IL and his relations
from all sources Is not far short OF
81. 600, 900
lingering this pretty sum, wilhelm