Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1880 — Cost of Royalty. [ARTICLE]

Cost of Royalty.

The Philadelphia Times sums up the various amounts absorbed by the European rulers of the present day: Per Year. Austrias 4,650,000 B j’giutn 660,000 Demnark 311,200 France 720,000 Prussia 3,079,825 Bavaria 1,378,865 Wurternburg ... 467,765 saxony• 762,950 Baden 374,656 Great Britain 3,075,000 Italy 3,100,000 Netherlands 311,500 Portugal 680,500 Russia.. 10,000,000 Spain 2,009,000 Sweden and Norway 529,400 Switzerland 3,000 Turkey 11,000,000 T0ta1543,154,161 These vast sums, as far as can be ascertained, are the amounts actually and personally absorbed by royalty in Europe—with the republican exceptions of France and Switzerland. From the impossibility of ascertaining the exact dis bursements for such purposes, only five out of the twenty-five states comprising the present German empire are set down in the above statement. It will be perceived that, if Europe has the fancy of being governed by Emperors, Kings, Princes and Grand Dukes, it costs a great deal to carry that fancy into actual operation. The highly-paid magnates, who ought to be the dependents and utility people in the great political drama of political government, have increasingly proceeded, during the centuries, to make themselves masters instead of servitors of the people. Single families have thus absorbed the property of the people, whom they seem to regard as serf's. From royal lips and royal pens these ever are words of ownership—such as “my people,” “my army,” and “my navy,” “my palaces,” and “ my interests.”