Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20
Editorial Comment
Up TO President Wilson.
tBoston Transcript

tBoston Transcript
Without questioning in the sishteSt
degree the good faith OF the New orr, orr
W ord, it's oner to MIR. Bryan 10 pay
him 5000 a year during his continuance
in office as secretary of State colldi-
toned on his giving UP .lecturing may
perfectly safe From Mr. Bryan ;
standpoint he cannot afford to close with
the proposition. Every night he appears;
sandwiehed between yodelers ana
movies he collects more than $50;
The first $3.50 taken in goes to him, ana
he has lien OF 30 per cent. on the next
$50 II is estimated that in the gItat
tent show at Staunton Va, Pfeslaeht
Wilson's birthplace, Mr.. Bryan must
have collected not far from 500 ne
Secretary of state is billed for three or
and when on saturday ne drops in At the
State Departmental he does drop in, ms
bank rolf will have been ''fattened by
at least s1500 MI Bryan is thus seen to
possess an earning power wRieh the
New York World does not appreciate
Nor does it in its effort to save the dis-
nifty of the Government by buying ME-
Bryan of the lecture PLATFORM appreciate
the part which earning power plays IN
all his calculations of the future. lie Is
a man with Il very considerable private
fortune which must yield him an income
sufficient with his official salary to make
up the 10000 q year which he declares
is the least sum on which he can live IN
Washington. What Mr., Bryan is aiming
q
and trained seals is To save his income
and add to his principal. The money
power never developed keener hunter
of the dollar than IS the present Seere-
The Worlds offer. whatever may be
the outcome, is significant of great
and welcome change of opinion. The
World has seen n great light. From be-
ing an apoogist OF defender OF the Sec
rotary of States Ghautauqua activities,
ii now prefers against him a lhst lhdlct-
.,fIia
inference is taking tAe same view OF Mr.;
Bryan which the Transcript expressed
when the original programme outlining
his purpose to reegate his official en-
ployment to the status of side line was
given out We have seen no occasion
to modify the opinion we then expressed.
ON the contrary. events have more thah
justified our criticism of Mr.. Bryan as
negleeting our foreign relations to dash
from grove to lake to collect ms
lecturers fee We are glad to note
other conversions than that of the
World to our opinion. Particularly
agreeable it is to note that the New
York Evening Post has at last printed
some very plain words on the response
bility of President Wilson for Bryan's
exhibition OF indifference to duty The
Post herein is i'll harmony with the
Transcript, which has reminded its
readers that President Wilson is reSpou
sible for the efficient direction of our for
eign relations by the Secretary of state.
President Wilson's liberation Of Mr..
Bryan : conduct Is indeed ulIlcuII 10
reconcile with his published ideals of
official labor. and with his own executive
record. only on one superstition can We
see an explanation of the Presidents at
titude and that is his perception OF MIR.
Bryan,s greed as a petard likely to hoist
him. If the President secretly shares
the opinion that Mr.. Bryan is an incubus
of the Democracy, he may think that
Bryan if left to his own devices Will
work the destruction of himself as a po-
litician and cease 10 be available as
this supposition credits President VIII
son with political aeRmen it discredits
him with forgetfulness of obliga
tons of his own great office. 1t is up
to President Wilson II end the Bryan
scandal" as it is likewise up to him
to demonstrate that he realizes that he
is the President OF the whole people and
leaders.