Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-16
bryan TO Lecture
DESPITE CRITICISM
Prepares to Start for chau-
tauqua After Issuing Letter
of Defense.

WASHINGTON, July 16.-Secretary
of state Bryan, with the ironical
resolution of Senator Bristow sun
spreading smiles on the face OF tne
capital, today kept unaltered MS IN
tention of lecturing through the sum
mer to piece out his salary of Sl2,OOo
year
Mr.. Bryan will leave Washington
Saturday night. not to return Tor SIN
weeks; but before that he viii take
short flyer to Mountain Lake Park'
Md, where he will lecture on Thurs
day.
Yesterday. following Senator Bris-
lows resolution asking the President
to inform the Senate how large a
salary the secretary would require
to stay at home and attend to the
affairs of the state department, Mr.
Bryan issued a statement
Repeating his declaration that his
salary was not enough for expenses,
Mr.. Bryan said that he had saved
$4,000 a year for the past seventeen
years and that he did not want to
encroach upon the savings he had
laid away for old age.
Senator Tillman regretted Mr..
Bryan's devotion to the lecture plat
form. despite the fact that he HIM
self had made $4,000 a year that way
during vacations of Congress. He
said he had never neglected his Of
fetal duties.
Secretary of State Bryan made
his replv to the critics of his
Chautaueua lecture tour, which opens
next week His statement follows:
II am glad to have these criticisms
brought to my attention. I believe
in criticism of public officials. Criti-
cism is helpful. If a man makes a
mistake criticism enables him to cor
rect it. If he is unjustly criticised
the criticism helps him. L have had
my share of criticism since | have
been in public life, but it has not
prevented my doing what | thought
proper to do.
| I'm devoting a part of my vacation
to lecturing / am doing what l believe
to be proper and l have no fear what
ever that any unbiased person VIII
criticise me when he knows the facts.
For seventeen years the sources OF
my income have been writing and lee
turing, but each year | have made
more public speeches without COM
pensation and where [ have paid my
own travelling expenses than / have
where compensation was received
my earning capacity has been
large and | have not only made an
income sufficient for my immediate
needs, but have saved on an average
something more than $4,000 a year.
In accepting the office which | now
hold I gave up the opportunity TO
add to my accumulations, for do not
expect to increase during my term
the amount have laid aside; that IS,
l am willing to forego whatever /ad-
vantage l might derive for the ac-
curing of such $4,000 more for the
privilege of serving the country in
this office during the coming four
years.
"I will do more if necessary, but
I do not believe that fair-minded peo-
pie will ask it of me. Therefore
expect to lecture enough to BRING my
income up to my expenses THESE leF'
lures to be delivered during the time
that other officials give to their va
cations. In addition to Supplementary
my salary, | hope that my lectures
do good. People who attend them
would not do so if they did not thinA
they received their moneys worth, bu'
| would be glad to spend my vacation
resting instead of lecturing If | coulc
do so without eating in upon the
amount that I have laid away as
protection against old age"