The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-21
Takes Part in Political
 Conferences.
GIVES LECTURE AT CHURCH
To Welcome His Wife and Daughter
 Home.
Nebraskan ia Interviewed sy Many Newspapers Men But Refuses
 to Discuss Political sitaa- tien in New York.

four brought William J. Bryan to this city today and 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 rom her studies at Virginia school. to welcome her mother home. Mrs. Bryan is passenger on the Atlantic transport liner Minnehaha. The steamer was re- ported off Nantucket today. The Ves- sel will land her passengers tomorrow
 Mir. and Mrs. Bryan will leave Tor the West on Thursday. In the mean time MT Bryan will fill several en- gagements and take part in conter- ences of more or less political siS- nificance. After his arrival from utica early this morning, he breakfasted with Col, Henry Watterson, met many or his friends, including several dele- gates and chatted with the neWspa- ner men. Tonight he delivered his lec- ture on The old World and It's ways at the St. Simeon's Episcopal Church. Earlier in the evening he dined with tbe rector. Rev. Ralph Walker fo- r,orrow he will be entertained by Gov ernor Fort and others at Trenton, N. J and in the evening he will address tha peoples' Institute at Cooper Union bere. Later he will attend the din- ner of the Missouri Society Of New York. ,,
 wednesday evening he will be guest at the joint banquet or the As- sociated Press and American Newspa ner Publishers Association. HIS lec- tnra at Cooper Union will have no haarlnr on political affairs Aside from a few lecture engagements m Nebraeka, Mir Bryan said tonight ne had nothing scheduled until May Is. when he is to attend the conference 70 he held at Washington to further tne s"conservation of our natural resources.
 win interyiewers today, MT. Bryah n.rsistentIv avoided dfscussion of the noftticaI situation in this State. MT. Bryan talked freely on other matters however.
 ora interyiewer suggested that the Nshrsskan having been credited wltn an earning capacity of from $ov,VVo to 75.000 year. might be exposen to he charge by opponents tnas h1 s.,snr no longer representative or the iauo . ing class. but full fiedged plutocrat' To this Mir. Bryan repliedi -
 .sA6x, income is derived mainly IToh r,v ,acturing. with some addition Tron articles written for other puoil cations and some from my own pape,' hyt the amount has been very nucn V0ATated. for nothing than for pay. ana deVote roora time to public work than prlvate 1sin The income that have received, bas come from the people who attend my lectures and who read what l write and therefore my obligation IS to the whole people rather than to any special class.
 sSsMy views have not changed upon nublic questions. l am contending for fha same things now that l did then and I think no one will deny that l could make more by siding with the corporate interests than I have oppos- ed. than I have made out Of featuring
 My political prominence has been an advantage in that 1t has given me a larger reading circle and larger audience, but I could have used the prominence in other ways to greater advantage. For instance. I was offnred s25.0OO a year as counsel for cor poration, but 1t would have taken me out of the political field. By lectur- ing and writing I can make what need in half the time and have the rest for public work. President Clcve- land found his law income larger af- ter he was in the White House than before. So did President Harrison This was the experience of Speaker Reed, after his service in Congress Secretary Taft found his services more fdludOlC dASCi AS heU cOCh NAAO SoS inet.
 Political Prominence.
 Political prominence is set in any kind of business I could not have turned my attention to anything where 1t would not have been an advantage and had I used all of my time lecrur- ing and writing. I could have made twice as much as have. The question is not whether I have made more thap I did before I was nominated, but whe- ther I have made it in a legitimate way and think no one will deny that my income has been derived from a legitt- mate source. The next question is wne- ther the increase in my earning power has changed my views on public ques- tions. No one think, will contend that 1t has"
 Among the questions which Mir. Bryan did not answer was this one. put by reporter:
 Do you expect to be nominated for the Presidency?"
 Well, this is refreshing" said Mr. Bryan, with a smile. "I presume you have read Caesar. young man. and will remember that the book reads:
 All Gaul is divided into three parts
 "If Julius Caesar had known vo, before he wrote that book, he prob ably would have struck ont tuo De