Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1894 — THE KAISER’S SALARY. [ARTICLE]

THE KAISER’S SALARY.

It In H Big Sum. but HU Expenses Are Also Very Large. Few Americans know the sums which royai persons receive from the countries over which they rule for their own maintenance. Such salaries are much larger than wo pay our President, but on the other hand, the expense of keeping up a royal position is proportionately greater. The Emperor William of Germany receives yearly 18,929,9116 marks, which is equal to about $4,732,241, payable quarterly in advance. On the first of every quarter the Kaiser’s private treasurer draws his master's allowance from the treasury sealed in various packets and its correctness sworn to. Three times the money is counted and then put in a strong box, and under a guard it is taken to the royal ] alace. With much ceremony it is there utiloadod and placed in the vaults, after which the treasurer signs a document giving it over to his Majesty’s hands. But of the sum thus received the allows his wife $250,000 annually on which she must support her household, pay hor attendants, etc., as well as settle all her own personal expenditures. The Kaiser must pay the wages of all his dependents lrom his salary. This listds tremendous. He feeds and clothes 1,500 lackeys all the year round, and there are also about 350 female servants to be looked after. Besides these he has a private pension list whieh costs him $50,000 annually, for every servant, of high or low degree, is entitled to a pension after twenty years of service. The Kaiser a’so pays his mother a pension of 2,000,000 marks, and for the support of the Royal Theater and Opera House he pays out 1,650,000 marks every year. From this list it can easily be seen that his Majesty must sometimes feel as poor as common mortals when his bills are paid, and his need of ready money is sometimesrgreat.