The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1909-02-24
HIS SALARY WILL
EQUAL TAFF's
Lectures and Speeches
Laid Out for One Year.
TO TRAVEL 10000 MILES.
Addresses Church and Tells
Why Missionary Work
is Needed.

Chicago, Feb. 17.-WilliAm Jennings
Bryan is going to smash into smith
Greens all public speaking and Chau-
tauqua leeturing records during 1903
II his voice holes out he expects to
make 100000, or as much as Presi-
dent-elect Taft will receive under the
new bill in Congress for his first
year in office.
Mr.. Bryan began his record-break-
ing talk tour Sunday afternoon with
an address TO an audience OF 1000
men at the Third Presbyterian church.
Ashland boulevard and Ogden avenue.
An hour sfte- be had finished he
left Chicago for DesMoines, Ia, where
he is scheduled TO do more talking
From DesMoines he will 90 TO another
city, where arrangements have been
made for him 70 talk.
And so the silver-tongued orator
OF Nebraska will keep on travelling
and talking al least four or five days
out Of every week and sometimes ev-
err day IN the week throughout the
spring and summer and until the
SHOWS OF another winter have come.
During 1893 Mr.. Bran will make
nearly three times as many speeches
IS he did in the last Presidential
campaign il the last few days he
has signed contracts 10 make dog
ens and dozens Of speeches IN places
where he has never before appeared
In addition, ct course, ne viii ap-
Pear during the summer al Chautau-
quas and other places, where he is a
familiar figure.
It has been estimated that Mr. BY
ans ,orthcou!rL Jour will require him
10 travel z5.Cgo miles or more and
before rext January he will have de-
livered nearly 200 speeches and lee
lures.
As for: the compensation, according
to the terms OF contracts which UT.
Bryan has signed. his profits for the
year will reach g total Of 100000.
When he has completed all his
present speaking engagements Mr.
Bryan will have uttered somewhere
in The ueighborhoOd Of . 100000 words
or enough 70 fill fifty ten-page news
papers Of seven columns each, elimi-
mating headlines and all advertising
matter.
No other public speaker in years
has done what llr Bryan expects 70
do in the same period Of time. On his
remarkable speech making trip
Bryan will be accompanied part Of the
time by his wife.
He was in excellent voice when he
addressed the big audience at the
Third Presbyterian church yesterday.
"Christianity's Achievements Abroad
was the subject OF his discourse.
Taking up the objection frequently
raised TO foreign mission work, that
there is enough for missionaries TO
do at home, Mr. Bryan said:
When that objection is made to
me I say that when the individual
postpones extending help TO any out
side country he will wait indefinitely.
we will never reach the time when
there is nothing in the way Of mis-
sionary work % do in this country.
II We are going to help any other
country we will have TO do it before
we reach perfection ourselves.
Every effort that is put forth for
the extension OF Christianity in other
lands helps TO strengthen US. We
should not get impatient with the for
eign missionary He is away from
his family and friends. Here we have
everything to encourage the minister,
and yet in this land two-tbirds OF
the adult men are not regular attend
ants at church.
Here men arc skepticll and doubt
full where it seems almoct impossible
for a man to find excuse for not be-
ing a Christian. You needn't be sur
prised that the heather finds excuses.
Mr.. Bryan said the foreign mission
airy would never get the country into