The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-05-17
speech Income."

6ryan's Speech Income"
The State Journal has this to say
of w. J. Bryan's speaking engage
ments: Mr.. Bryan will stay at home
for a week or ten days and then an
other call to rush away on speak
ing tour will have to be answered. He
is now sought after more eagerly than
any other man who is available for
platform work. Whenever it becomes
known that he has any vacant time
the work of caring for the correspond
ence on that subject becomes real
burden to the folks in the Commoner
Office If he filled all demands for dates
he could talk, like the bands in Ber-
lin, mornings, nights and afternoons.
and still leave the public unsatisfied.
Mr.. Bryan's income from these en-
gagements is very large, but it could
be made much larger if he did not
use lectures as an aid to getting his
political views before the country.
When he makes a political speech or
attends banquet he pays his own
expenses. The sermons that attracted
so much attention in Washington;
Springfield and Boston were given
freely for the public good. But when
he goes on one of these trips he &C
cepts enough lecture engagements to
cover the cost of the journey and per-
haps to leave him little profit be-
sides. The paid lectures are thus only
incidental to the main purpose OF the
visit
MIR. Bryan's financial arrangements
for his lectures are simple. He takes
one-half of the proceeds and the peo-
pie who manage the lecture take the
other half. He refuses to lecture for
an individual management, always in
sisting that the local share shall go to
some organization or cause" People
have tried to estimate Mr.. Bryan's in
come from lecturing but it is doubtful
if he knows himself
About w. J. Bryan.
A recent issue of the Springfield Re-
publican said of the closing days of Mr..
Bryan'S eastern trip:
'Mr. Bryan did not quite complete
his program on Wednesday, but it
was the fault of late train. AS it
was, he merely arrived in New York at
o'clock, spent an hour receiving his
friends, donned his evening clothes,
and rushed to Harlem to deliver a lee
ture, was back at downtown restaur-
honor, and an hour later was on his
way to Newark, N. j., to deliver a
speech at midnight. He is due to
speak tonight in Chicago, and will get
home on Sunday, planning to help
plant his farm. That farm ought to
get planted pretty quickly if Mr.. Bryan
tackles the job in the way he has been
lecturing."
Liquor License in Lincoln.
The written opinion in the case OF
julius Reusch against the city of Lin
coin was filed Friday, the court hold
ing that county boards may not grant
license for a term exceeding a calen-
dar year, but municipal authorities
may grant a license for municipal
year, which may be either longer or
shorter than a calendar year. By the
term municipal year" as used in the
Slocumb law, is ordinarily meant the
| political year as by so constituting the
term the principle of local option is
conveyed and applied. By the amend
ment made to the Lincoln charter in
| 1905, by which biennial elections in
stead of annual elections were pro-
| vided for, the legislature did not in
| tend to abandon the policy of local
| option. In the case before the court
| in In lot n
the right to sell liquor on their licenses
for thirteen months because the terms
of the city officers had been extended
one month. A test case was filed and
| for eight days the saloons were closed.
| Regents Institute Test Case.
Regent Charles S. Allen obtained
leave of the Supreme court to file a
mandamus suit against Auditor E. M.
Searle. John ]. Ledwith, who has a
claim amounting to $25 for services
as instructor in the university for the
biennium, is the relator. The suit was
filed to test the legality of the state
auditors ruling that no warrants on
the state treasury should be issued
when there are no funds in the fund
on which the warrants are drawn. The
fund in question is the one derived
! from a 1-mill levy for the support OF
| the university Mr.. Ledwith's claim
is on the temporary university fund.
The petition of the relator asserts that
the auditor has ruled that no warrants
shall be issued when there is no mon
ey on hand. 1t cites sections 1, 2, and
of chapter SO, compiled statutes, to
| shnw that II is te dntv of the state