The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-11
BRYAN TELLS HOW
 HE MADE $15O,OOO
Says That Is the Sum Total of His Fortune and Wants to Know Where Uncle
 Joe Got His.
CHALLENGES HIM TO TELL
Tn Illinois Speech Democratic Can dldnte Denies He Hns Made e Million Out of "Wlnd
 and Ink"

olney, ILL, Sept lO,--Giying detail cd statement of the amount of proper ty owned by him, which he placed at sl50o00 at the outside, William j., Bryan, In n speech here today declar- ed false the accusation of Speaker Cannon, made yesterday In Springfield Ill.,, that he was worth a million dol lars, and called upon tho speaker to be as frank In making known to the world tho amount of his own earthly possessions.
 In the course of his remarks, Speak CT Cannon is credited with saying that Mir Bryan had accumulated million dollars selling wind and ink to ,he public The democratic candidate re- ferred to Speaker Cannon as the third man In influence In the government. 'if not even above the vice president in his power to influence legislation, and said that lt was only fair that the speaker should apply to himself the same rule that he applies to me. and take the public into his confidence"
 'iMr Cannon. in hls speech before the republican state convention yester- day, has this to say of me: How about Bryan, man of theories. q man who has a breaking out of the mouth; t man who agreed with the populis ts only dozen years ago that no man could honestly earn million dollars and that when any man had that he was a plutocrat? But man domI- mating the democratic party and the greatest advertising agent on earth through his papers through his books and through his lectures, is. 1 am lh- i formed. worth more than sl,O0O,O0O
 "A little later in his speech he drops the qualifying phrase and says, as fl upon hts own Knowledge: There stands the democratic candidate, a successful Chautauqua lecturer, who has made [ million dollars selling wind and ini to the public.
 Many exaggerated statements hav' | been made in regard to my earthl. possessions. but this is the first tim the statement has been made by an, man of political standing ar responsi blity think 1 am justified, there fore, In speaking of this subject, whicl | might otherwise be considered too per | Co
 was worth about s3,O0O when l wa elected to congress 1 served four year and by careful economy 1 saved be tween 5000 and si,Ooo or about sl,oc a year, so that when I went out . congress In the spring of 1895 1 wa worth about ss.OOO or sl l,OOo During tn period that elapsed between the en, of my congressional terms and m, nomination for the presidency. abou a year and four months, 1 was en gagged In speaking and In lecturins and added but small sum to m savings.
 After the election in 1896 my earn ing power as a lecturer was largel enhanced by the prominence whic the campaign had given me NJ book, The First Battle brought m s1T,O00, and I gave an equal amour of the profits to the various commit tees that had carried on the campaig of 1898. My lectures have been prof itable and my writings haze paid m well, but no one attends the lecture unless he wants to do SO, and no on buys what l write unless he is Inter ested In reading lt More than hal of my time since 1898 has been give to gratuitous work, yet 1 have bee able to support myself and accumu late property which 1 would estimat at about s125,0O0, but, as no one ca say accurately what property Is wort till he sells I will fix sl50,000 as tn outside limit, the maximum, of m wealth. and l am willing to leave th public to determine whether that
 more than l ought to have earned, ( whether have earned 1t honestly.
 And now, having answered tn criticism of MT. Cannon, and show that his accusation is false, I think
 am justified In asking him to be z frank with the public as have bee, He began holding office in 1861. whe was a year old, and during the la forty-seven years he has held offic more than forty years of the time an about thirty-fve years of that time | has been member of congress an has been drawing a salary that tt members of congress thought so fl adequate that the salary has recent been increased. Will he tell us wh; he has been selling, to whom he ht sold 1t, and how much he got for il He ought to tell us whether he ht , made any money featuring or writin
 that Is. by selling wind and ink, choose his own choice language F has been greatly hampered in the a
 emulation of money by the strict a
 tenton to public duties and yet he
 reputed to be wealthy. If he will te us just how much he Is worth we ca then guess how much he might ha, . been worth had he been free to devo
 his talents to nor,ev-makinr :"