The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-21
Nebraskan Makes Several Ad- dresses and Is Interviewed
 on Various Subjects
POLITICAL PROMINENCE
 IS GOOD BUSINESS ASSET
MT. Bryan Refuses To Discuss Political Subjects While In New York, But Denies That His Income
 Is Immense.

New York, April 20.-His featuring tour brought William Jennings 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 from her studies at a Virginia school. Mrs. Bryan was a passenger on the Minnehaha. The steamer was re- ported off Nantucket today. The vessel will land her passengers tomorrow. MT. and Mrs. Bryan will leave for the west on Thursday. In the meantime MT. Bry- an will fill several engagements and take part in conferences of more or less political significance. After his arrival from Utica early today he breakfasted with Col. Henry Watterson, met many personal friends including some proni- nent democrats and ehatted with the newspaper men. Tonight he delivered his lecture on "The Old World and Its Ways at St. Simeons Episcopal church. Earlier in the evening he dined with the rector, Rev. Ralph Walker.
 Many Engagements.
 Tomorrow MT. Bryan will be enter tained by Governor Fort and others at Trenton. \. l.. and in the eve-sing he will address the Peoples Institute at Cooper Union here. Later he will at tend the dinner of the Missouri society of New York. Wednesday evening ne will be a guest at4the joint banquet of the Associated Press and American News paper Publishers association. His lecture at Cooper Union will have no bearing on political affairs.
 Aside from a few lecture engagements in Nebraska, MT. Bryan said tonight, he had nothing scheduled until May 13, when h. is to attend the conference to be held at Washington to further the "eonserVa- tion of our natural resources.
 With interviewers today Mir. Bryan per sstently avoided discussion of the polit- teal situation in this state. Mir Bryan talked freely on other matters however. One interviewer suggested that the Ne braskan having been credited with an earning capacity of from $25,00O to $75,ooO a wear might be exposed to the charge hv opponents that he was no longer rep ,asentative of the laboring class but full-eedged plutoerat. To this MT. Bryan replied:
 Bryan's Income.
 ..Mv income is derived mainly from my lecturing with some addition from articles written for other publications and something from my own paper but the amount has been very much eN- argerated l make more speeches for nothing than for pay and devote more time to public work than private gain. The income that I have received has come from the people who attend my lectures and who read what write and therefore my obligation is to the whole people rather than to any spe- cial class The best test of the effect of my income is to be found in the things that l advocate. My views have not changed upon public ques- tions 1 am contending for the same things now that did then, and l think no one will deny that could make more by siding with the corporate in- terests that I have opposed than l have made out of featuring.
 My political prominence has been an advantage in that it has given me larger reading circle and larger audience but 1 could have used the prominence in other ways to greater pecuniary advantage. For instance was offered $25,000 year as counsel for a cOfDOfa1lOn, put IL WoulQ idNO taken me out of the political field. By featuring and writing l can make what I need in half the time and have the rest for public work. President Cleve- land found his law income 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 Congress. Secretary Shaw found his services more valuable after he had been in tn ca binet.
 Politics an Asset.
 "Political prominence is an asset in any kind of business. l could not have turned my attention to anything wh ere it would not have been an advantage, and had I used all of my time featuring and writing I could have made twice as much as I have. The question is not whether have made. more than did before I was nominated, but wheth CT I have made it in a legitimate way, and I think no one will deny that my income has been derived from legiti- mate source. The next question is whether the increase in my earning power has changed my views on public questions. No one, 1 think, will con tend that it has
 Among the questions wh ich MT Bry an did not answer was this one, put by a reporter:
 Do you expect to be nominated for the presidency?'
 Well this is refreshing," said MT. Bryan with a smile. 'I assume you have read Caesar, young man, and will remember that the book reads:
 ".All Gau1 is@ divided into three parts
 If Julius Caesar had known you be- fore he wrote that book he probably would have struck out two of the ,,artsp