The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-18
Matter Of MONEY
PURELY PERSONAL
Secretary of State Bryan Tells
Why He Can't Live on
$1,000 Year.
OBLIGATIONS 70 BE MET
These Will Absorb More Than
Half His Salary as Cab-
net Officer.

Lincoln, Neb.. August 17.-william J.
Bryan, In signed statement mado
public through The Monthly Commoner
yesterday. says it Is not question Of
whether Cabinet officer can live on
$4,000 year, but rather one of wheth-
or he can subsist on that sum-a mat
ter purely personal In part. his state
ment follows:
When l announced that I found it
necessary TO supplement- my official in
come, and that would turn to the lee
ture platform as the most natural as
we'll entirely Legitimate. means
OF earning what additional income
needed. the question was at once asked
Why Is MI Bryan Unable to live upon
salary Of $4,000 year?
1t ought TO have occurred to any one
who was tempted to ask the question
that the question is not whether a Cab
met officer could live on $4,000 year
if he had nothing to consider except
the expenses attendant upon living in
Washington, but whether he could add
the expense of official life to his other
expenses and meet them all out of his
salary.
Every man who has reached a post
where he is likely to be appointed TO
high Office has assumed obligations
which cannot be suspended when he
enters office. My obligations to church.
charity. education and for my insur
ance cannot be discontinued. They
amount to more than $4,000 per year
and these, though the largest. are by
no means ALL and Will absorb more
than half the salary which 1 receive.
No Complain. OF Salaries.
II have not complained of the sal
aries OF Cabinet officers; neither would
! advocate increase. although the
position Of Secretary of State carries
with Il more entertainment than any
other position in the Cabinet because
and my acceptance of hospitality
throughout the country and through
out the world has increased the amount
OF entertaining expected of mo. But
there is no rule requiring n Cabinet
officer to compress his expenditures
within the salary limit, and no criti-
clsm has been offered heretofore when
Cabinet officers have drawn upon their
private incomes to meet their expenses
when those expenses have exceeded the
amount drawn from the government.
Il have much reason not TO neg
lect public duty as one can have, and
those who are fair minded ought 10
assume, until they have evidence to
the contrary. that my vacation period
will be so chosen not TO sacrifice
Official duty. All officials are given
vacations, and where several are as
sociated together in an office the vaca-
lions are so arranged that work Is eX-
changed and the business of the de-
partment goes on.
"a mans expenditures grow with
his income. My income, due largely to
the fact OF my political prominence.
have grown. But have been able to
meet them and TO lay aside some money
each year for the last seventeen years
] have planned to forego for the next
four years any additions TO my ac-
oumulatIons. and I do not regard 1t as
sacrifice TO do so. so much APP
preciate tho opportunity that the
President has given me TO join him in
the service that he is rendering to
the country that I would gladly hold
the position which now occupy even
If TO do so II We're necessary to use
part OF the money laid aside as II pro-
lection against old age
Work of Cabinet.
Mr. Bryan devotes nearly three pages
of the CoInmoner to n resume of the
work OF President Wilson's Cabinet,
reserving the last mention for the De-
partment of state.
LAS an incident to the Democratic
victory" Nh Bryan says. Il have been
invited to BECOME q member OF the
Presidents cGicta,. family. and as his
representative in one of the depart
ments of the government am brought
into contact with international prob
TENS. IS n member of the Cabinet. too,
! ENJOY the OPPORTUNITY or ENiclnal!VS
in the discussion Of such problems as
the President sees fit TO bring before
that body.
IF ! were compelled TO choose be-
tween the service that | could render
AS n journalist and the service which
i can render as one of tho President y
advisers, ! NO Id feel justified in pre-
fe!ring the latter TO the former, but as
there is no necessary conflict between
the two positions am glad to per
form the duties attendant upon both"
Relative TO the Department of State
he says: The country seems to he
pleased with the policies which the
President has put forth through the
state Department, as we'll as in the
other departments OF the government"
Mir. Bryan expresses the belief that
the move toward world peace Is pro-
crossing and that the Presidents eff
fort 10 preserve peace in Mexico VIII