The Washington herald., 1913-08-18
BRYAN EXPLAINS
Lecture Income.
State Secretary Says His Obi
cations Are $500
aYear.
CLAIMS PEOPLE NDORSE
Statement in Commoner Also Tells Of
Cabinet Officers Work
and Policies.

secretary brydn, III VI sisneu stdtcHicht
printed in the last issue of the Com
moner. says that his friends may be
able to answer any criticisms. whether
or malicious, that may be
directed against me because Of my lectur-
ing during a part of my vacation.
when / announced that 1t was neces-
sary to supplement my official income,
and that | would turn to the lecture plat
form as the most natural as well as an
entirely legitimate means of earning
what additional income l needed. the
question was at once asked, Why is Mr..
Bryan unable to live upon salary OF
$1,000 a year?
obligations Are Assumed.
1T ought to have occurred to any one
who was tempted to ask the question
that the question is not whether Cabinet
officer could live on $1,000 year II he
had nothing to consider cscept the ex-
penses attendant upon living in Wash
ington, but whether ,he could add the
expense of official life to his other eN-
penses and meet them all out of his
salary.
Every man who has reached a posi-
tion where he is likely to be appointed
TO a high office has assumed obligations
which cannot be suspended when he en-
ters office. My obligations TO church.
charity. education, and for my insurance
cannot be discontinued. They amount TO
more than $500 a year, and these, though
the largest. are by no means all, and
will absorb more than half the salary
which / receive.
Il have planned to forego for the next
four years any additions to my ac-
~ l4 ND :
a sacrifice to do SO. / SO much appre-
ciate the opportunity that the President
has given me to join him in the service
that he is rendering to the country that
l would gladly hold the position which
| now occupy, even II to do so it were
necessary TO use a part of the money
laid aside as a protection against old
age But l have no reason to believe
that the American people would either
ask or expect that of me. On the con-
trary, | feel sure that l shall not fai
in their estimation because l prefer tc
earn my living as j have done IN the
past"
Tells of Cabinet Session.
In a nights review of the work of tbs
Cabinet in another part of the Commonel
Mr.. Bryan says:
when one begins to investigate thu
duties of a Cabinet member the magni
tude of their work and the many i'm
portant matters coming under their su
pervision are Immediately appreciated"
He compliments Secretary Garrison OF
personal inspection of the army posti
and army property. and of Secretar!
McAdoo he says:
THE new Secretary has been in of
fee a little more than four months, bu
he already has demonstrated that ne Il
able to carry out his policy OF makint
the United States Treasury work 10
all the people and all the business In
terests of the country. instead OF
favored few.
Mr.. Bryan gives much space to Post
master General Burleson and the par
Gel post expansion. He says that on
of the first things Mr.. Burleson dit
was to make IL plain that postmas
ters in the Presidential grades woul'
be held to strict accountability in th'
matter of the time that they devot
to their respective offices and the char
acter of service they actually perform
This, Mr.. Bryan thinks, is an i'm
portant reform.
Mr.. Bryan further says the Depart
ment of State inherited from the Taf
administration the Mexican trouble, o
which he says:
This problem sllll continues W eH
gage attention. but the country seem
to be satisfied with the President
efforts toward the restoration of per
manent peace and orderly government
in that country.
Alien Land Laws.
THE California alien land laws in
volved this country in diplomatic cor
respondence with Japan, and the In
cident is not yet closed. The Chimes
loan has demanded attention: the
came the recognition of the Chimes
Republic. and now there IS disturb
ance in China. caused by the uprising
| in the southern provinces.
The department has had to dea
with the continuing subject of dolla
diplomacy, the eradication of whic
has been commenced. All these hav
demanded consideration, in addition
the changes incident to a new admin
| fstration and the routine work tina
runs along all the time.
| "The country seems to be please
with the policies which the Presder
has put forth through the State De
partment, as we'll as in the other de
partments Of the government.
in the matter of peace. the Stat
Department has been making pros
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