A DISLOYAL PROCLAMATION.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 211, 16 July 1887, Page 4 (Supplement)

A DISLOYAL PROCLAMATION.

The following in hand-bill form was very exteiw\ lily circulated in Sydney prior to the last Jubilee meeting : — Republicans ! Roll up this (Wednesday) c\ening, at ha f p ,st 7 o'clock, at the Exhibition building, and laiso your voices against hnpmnhstie twaddle and sycophantic gu^h. Remember, that every time you i>ivo " three cheers for the Queen,' 3011 aie assisting to perpetuate a n}"tim ot go\emmenD which is totally i.ppo^-d to the interests of the great ma-s of mankind. The meeting tonight is not a question of " buns and milk.'' IU object is to enable the promotors io eiblo " home " that the great hcai t of "New .South Wales is bursting with loyalty to its bo^ed Queen (w ho, by the way, s<jnt <"nly he) 1 sympathy to the Bulli widows and orphans— the colony paying for the eablegiam which coin ejed the infiumation). Defeat the object of the sycophants by voting against the Jubilee demon -tiations, and thus encourage your oppms.ed and staning bietlnen in England, Ii eland, and Scotland to per&evere in their ettoili to o\erthrow the Monarchy and r^tabli^h a. Republic ' Do not bo gulled by tho statement that Great liiitain would not have prospeied to &uch an extent under a Republic, as it has under tho iifty ycai> leign of our beloved and ( ') (^iicen Vietoiia. Think of -America, with her si\ty millions of inhabitants, and only two bundled and fifty thousand )Mupei.->, and of (iieatßiitain with her thhtj-sK million inhabitants, and one million and thirty »oven thousand poor. Aye, think of it ! America : (ireat Britain : 00,000,000 persons, 30,000,000 persons, •22o,()00 paupei-. 1,035,000 paupers. Then think of the salary of the Queen, U)H).,'J97 per annum ; and compaie it with tho salaiy of the American President, LlO.OOO per annum. Not only this. The Britishers have — besides paying six hundred and nineteen thousand pounds each year to a do-nothing Queen — to tax themselves to support the Royal Family as under :—: — Crown Princess of Russia .. . £S,OOO Princess of Wales . . . . . . 10.0LO Princebs Christian .. .. .. G.OOQf Duke of Connaught .. .. .. 25.0t>0* Duchess of Uainbiidgc „ .. .. 6,000 Duke of Cambridge 12,000" Prince ot Wales .. .. .. 40,000* Duke ot Ed 11 burgh .. .. .. i' 5,000" Marchioness ot Lome .. .. .. 0,000 Duke ol Albany (bince do ad) .. .. 23,000 Duchess of Meeklenburgh-StreJitz .. 3,080 Princess Mary ot Teck.. .. .. 5,<00 v (These amounts arc exclusive of " fat " billets. Only about a million pounds per annum doeb the loyalty of the Biitish people cost them. Thank heaven we in New South Wales only pay tho Queen's representative £7,ooo— about, however, £6,000 too much. Roll up to-night and show the toadying Conservatives who held a star-chamber meeting after they were beaten at the Town Hall on Friday evening last that you resent their endeavours t3 convince people outside our colony that you are ready to die of gratitude to and love of your gracious Queen, when your sympathies, are with her oppressed subjects — and you desire a Republic. Roll up ! Keep orderly ! Vote against the Jubileedemon&trations,and then give Three Cheers for an Australian Republic.