The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-21
Lecture and Literary Receipts
Enable Bryan to Devote
Half Time to People.
POLITICAL PROMINENCE
A VALUABLE ASSET
Might Have Been Used BY Him.
the Nebraskan Declares, to His
Financial Advantage Had
He Changed His Posi-
ton = Sees New
York Leaders.
= Ew YORK, April eo.-His lect-


uring tour brought William j
Nj Bryan to this city to-day, and
i he had also planned to meet
Mrs Bryan on her arrival from
Europe tomorrow. AT the Hoffman
House he was Joined during the day
by Miss Grace Bryan, who has taken
holiday from her studies at Hollins
Institute, Va, TO welcome her mother
the Atlantic Transport liner Mnnehalii
The steamer was reported off Nam
tucket to-day. The vessel will land
her passengers tomorrow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan will leave for the
West on Thursday. In the meantime
Mr.. Bryan will fill several engagements
and take part In conferences of more
or less political Significance. After his
arrival from Utica early to-day he
breakfasted with Colonel Henry Wat
tcrson. met many personal friends.
including some prominent Democrats.
and chatted with the newspaper men.
Tonight he delivered his lecture on
'The Old World and Its Ways" at the
st. Simon's Episcopal Church. Earlier
i'll the evening he had dincd with tho
rector. the Rev. Ralph Walker. To-
morrow he will be entertained by Cow
ornor Fort and others at Trenton N j.,
and in the evening he will llgaddregs the
Peoples Institute at Cooper Union here.
Later he will attend the dinner of the
Missouri Society OF New York. We'd
ncsday evening he will be a guest at
the joint banquet Of the Associated
Press and American Newspaper Pub
lishers' Association. His lecture at
Cooper Union will have no bearing on
political affairs.
Aside from a few lecture engage
nients in Nebraska. Mr. Bryan said to-
night he had nothing scheduled until
May l3th, when he is TO attend the con-
ference to be held at Washington TO
further the conservation OF our natural
resources"
His Income Legitimate.
With intervlewers to-day Mr. Bryan
persistent!y avoided discussion OF tbs
political situation IN this State Mr.
Bryan talked freely on other matters
One interviewer suggested that the
Nebraskan. having been credited with
an earning capacity or from $4,000 to
si'.oGo year, might be exposed to
the charge by opponents that he was
no longer representative of the labor
Ing class, but a full-hedged plutocrat.
To this Mr.. Bryan replied: MY income
is derived mainly from my lecturing,
with some addition from articles writ
ten for other publications and some
thing from my own paper. but the
amount has been very much cxaGger
Rted. l make more speeches for Moth
ing than for pay. and devote more time
to public work than private gain The
income that have received has come
from the people who attend my lectures
and who read what l write, and there
fore my obligation Is to the whole peo-
pie, rather sian to any special class
The best test of the effect of my in
come is to be found in the things that
advocate.
"AIy views have not changed upon
public questions. I am contending for
the same things now that ! did then,
and 1 think no one will deny that l
could make more by siding with the
corporate interests that l have opposed
than 1 have made out of lecturing
MY political prominence has been
an advantage. In that it has given
me a larger reading circle and a larger
audience, but could have used the
opportunity to greater advantage. Fog
instance, I was offered s25.000 Il year
as counsel for a corporation, but it
would have taken me out of the poll
tical field. BY lecturing and writing I
can make what / need in half the time
and have the rest for public work.
President Cleveland found his law sn-
come larger after he was In the White
House than before. So did President
Harrison. This was the experience of
Speaker Reed after his service in Con-
gross. Secretary Shaw found his SER
vices more valuable after he had been
in the Cabinet.
"Political prominence is an asset In
III of II
turned my attention to anything where
1t would not have been an advantage,
and had used all OF my time lecturins
and writing, / could have made twice
as much as / have. The question Is
not whether / have made more than
did before l was nominated, but
whether have made it in a legitimate
way. and think no. one willtdeny that
my income has been derived from a
legitimate source. The next question
is whether the increase in my earning
power has changed my views on public
questions. No one. think. will con-
s!der that 1t has
An Effective Reply.
Among tho questions which Mr..
bryan did not answer was this one, put
by a reporter:
do you expect to be nominated for
the presidency?'
We'll, this is refreshing" said Mr..
Bryan. with smile, II presume yol
have read Caesar, young man, and will
remember that the book reads: All
Ga.ul is divided into three parts It
Julius Caesar had known you before
he wrote that book, he probably would
have struck out two Of the parts"
ii 46 1H@t
johnson Not CominE to Virginia,
fSnnoial to The Times Dispatch
LYNCHBURG, VA. April 3O--Gov
ernor. John A. johnson, OF Minnesota.
in Il dispatch to the I4YnChhurg News