In addition members of young siam had publicly shown their commitment to the manpower and financial reform desired by conservative siam as we have seen the king who was identified initially with young siam attacked the traditional labour system through the law abolishing prostration he also opposed the rounding up of unmarked phrai arguing that this would seriously interrupt a great number of producers in their planting would further prolong the stagnation of commerce and would mean a serious loss of revenue to the government he introduced many revenue-earning financial reform as we shall see making royal income from the gambling tax dispensable these initiatives met needs of conservative siam and it was not surprising that in return it consented to young