The sun., 1909-01-23
The Decline Of Bailey.


Tie Hon. JOSEPH WELDON BAILEY
seems to have gone into an incurable
istellectual and moral decline Hum
hug is becoming the rule and not the
exception with him His remarks are
calculated for the crossroads If his
nftive -Copiah county IN Mississippi
rather than for the Senate Of the United
States. 1t would be an insult to tho
alert and modern Texans 10 suppose
that they are woodcocks Tor SPRINGS
50 palpable as his Was il worth while
10 "vindicate' al so much expense Of
temper and language a statesman who
can make speech so cheap. SO drip
ping with fubdub as Mr. BAILEY 8
Monday talk on the proposed IN
crease of salaries Of certain officials" -?
Shall the President have q salary pro-
portionate somewhat 20 the dignity of
his office? Shall Federal Judges have a
living wage? To such questions Mr..
BAILEY finds characteristically llumi-
mating answers such as this
am ore OF those who believe that WOULD
he innntely better for the peace and happiness
of these people and for the perpetui'v OF this re-.
public II we could so back to that elder and better
time when II was three generations from shirt
sleeves 10 shirt sleeves; when the one generation
earned q fortune. another generation spent most
of IL. and the third generation went 10 work TO
make another That was innnilely better for the
p-aee ard perpetuiry OF these people and these
20.
rs and incorporating fortunes until the deg-n.
crate spendthriits OF certain great families will
rsver be compelled 10 earn their bread as COP
commanded they should-in the sweat OF their
f4ce But while would not lake even from them
what the foresight OF their grandfathrrs accu.
mllated. ] deny III. wisdom OF teaching the
American people that American public oficials
should initiate their habits and their follies. ia
private citizen IN Esw York wants 10 give feast
Tor monkeys, he has night TO entertain the de. |
scendants Of his ancestors, but we want no such 1
exhibitions BY our public servants"
The Lone Star Spartan would have
no greenhouses at the White House so
long as there are poorhouses in the
United States. The Presidents salary
is TO be doubled. for whose entertain
raent, then? The brainless dude and
l5le millionaire The golden age
before GRANT end LINCOLN brings pious
CALCULATIONS into Mr.. BAILEY's mouth,
tears into those upturned eyes. "lt is
GODS pity we cannot 60 back TO those
simple times. In this corrupt and
hrazen age District Judge gets 5000
. year, - per cent. on $500, 600 year
We wonder that Mr. BAILEY didn't pro-
pcse to cut those dropsical salaries. At
least, he sees the injustice of giving a
District Judge more pay than Senator
gets, And think of Senator's tolls. He
may have spent sleepless nights in
eearching the worlds history for the
truths that perpetuate freedom and
make nations great.
OF such sleepless nights there is more
than one trace in this speech. Mr..
BAILEY plumbers Sir HENRY WoTToN
shsnelessly. Ho believes 1t was TAI
IEYRAND who defined diplomat as
man who is sent abroad TO lie for
the benefit Of his country" Felicitous
BAILEY, who touches nothing that he
doesn't spoil. And now we see him
mingling his seventeenth century legal
and literary studies with that old hatred
OF his for evening dress:
Ny Lord CoHE was once asked by the guar.
cI.n OF two promising boys how be could make
great lawyers OF them. and quick the response
came from the great lawyers llps quoting the
words OF MILTON. teach them.
TO scorn delights aud live laborious days
He did not advise that they attend entertain
nents where the men dress Ike head walters
ard the ladies hardly dress at sn but bis sdvice
vas TO teach them
To scorn delights and live laborious days"
Ny Lord CoKE,' our old friend /;
Sir EpwARp COKE, departed this
life, If the Encyclopedias Britannica" [
anAniases not, September 8, 1888. The
quotation which Mr.. BAILEY attributes
to him is from @Lycidas, which was I
written in November. 1887. Mr.. BAILEY
Is as correct in his facts as he is in his
Conclusions .
:: want to 60 back instead Of going q
forward cries Mr.. BAILEY. He has v
hs wish He is going back faster than 7
anybody. else that We know Of and he '
asnt far to 60.