The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-22
LABOR LEADERS,
| ATTACK ROYAL
Family Expenses Claiming
Then to be Excessive.
DEMANDS The SURRENDER
Of the Revenues Received
from the Duchies of
Lancaster and
Cornwall Charge Royal
Household Honeycombed
With Abuses.
Conccaling Nests of Parasites Fat
tening Under tho Shadow of the
Thunc-Is Royalty immoral?

BY United Press Wire.
London. July ga severe attack
upon the royal family was made in
the house of commons this evening
by George Baynes, the Labor leader,
who was speaking in opposition to the
passage of the civil list-the money
paid the king and members of the
royal family by the nation.
Barnes declared he would oppose
to the end the granting of the in
creased civil list unless the king and
the Prince of Wales would agree to
surrender into the public treasury
the revenues now received by them
from the duchics of Lancaster and
Cornwall, where they own immense
landed properties which bring in
large revenues.
"The royal income is excessive and
the expenses of the royal household
are honeycombed with abuses" he
said, "inasmuch as it conceals a nest
of parasites who are attending upon
the nation under the shadow of the
throne"
The civil list asked by the king and
the members of the royal family this
enue from the duchy of Cornwall
| amounted in 1908 to $il4,250, while
| $685. 700 was received from the duChy
of Lancaster that year. Since 1908,
however, there has been a material
| increase in the revenues from these
two duchies, so that nearly $1,000, 900
would be cut off the income of the
royal family If the domains I'm these
| duchies were surrendered.
EX-Premier Balfour, leader of the
Conservatives, replying, said that the
root of Barnes" objections seemed to
be that the royal family was over
expensive for the nation.
An unidentified Laboritc, without
rising from his chair, cried OUT
Not over-expensive, over-immor.
al"
The audacity of the remark seemed
to daze Balfour for an instant ant
he could only reply that he did no
know that the Laboritcs deemed roy,
atty to be immoral.
Laborite Jowett explained that TN,
speaker must have meant that tn,
expenses Of the royal family wcr,
immoral, not the members
Balfour added that unless England
was able to support a monarchy prop
erly, 1t would be far better for the
kingdom to alter the system or gov,
erning now in vogue and find another
which would have the single meri
or cheapness. But. he added, 4
would be impossible to conduct Eng,
land as an empire as cheaply az
America is conducted under "A presi.
dent, and besides he did not think
an English presidency would be much
cheaper than the present kingdom.
Sir Charles Dixie, chairman of the
royal commission for housing tho
working classes, supported the attl.
tude of the Laborites to the extent
OF declaring that the crown lands IN
| Cornwall and Lancaster needed the
most rigid management under the SUI
pervision of government authorities
Gibson Bowlcs, the military writer
and authority grew oven more So
cialistic, averring that the crown
| lands i'm Lancaster and Cornwall new
er belonged to the members of the
| royal family i'm their private capacity
| and consequently ought to be sur
rendered to the kingdom, that the
revenue might go into the state treas
ury instead of into TIE privy purse of
the king and the Prince of Wales. If,
however, 1t was decided to allow the
King and his son to retain the rich
crown lands and their income Bowles
declared II was manifestly improper
TO allow the ruler to escape the pro-