Evening star., 1912-07-13
BAILEY WARNS COUNTRY
OF IMPENDING DISASTER
In Banquet Address Texas
Senator Says Republic
Is Near Crisis.

Addressing his host and fellow guests
| at dinner party at the New Willard
last night. Senator Bailey of Texas, who
| is soon to retire from public life, made a
| notable speech of comment upon the state
Of the Union and the drift Of national af-
fairs. He said, in part:
This republic Is near a crisis which is
greater than the wisest men think. I do
not iorget that the French revolution
came while the governors were at the
theater, and that they arose from their
banquet tables to come face to face with
violence and bloodshed in the streets Of
Paris. l do not say that these United
States are facing such a state of affairs
today. but l do maintain that If within
the next thirty years the country should
continue to change as 1T has in the past
thirty, We will find ourselves face to
face with such a condition at the end Of
that time.
Appeals to Congress.
You senators and representatives can
prevent this great crisis, and you will do
so If you have the courage to go out and
tell the public the truth. Every evil
which exists in the country today can
be corrected without danger to the prin-
ciples and policies upon which this re-
public was founded, and it should be
done.
THE impauence of the minority, of
J which l myself have been a member, has
been largely responsible for the state Of
mind Of the people of the United States
today. for they have grossly exaggerated
the evils Of the country.
The senators and representatives are
more largely responsible for the present
unrest than any one else. In their cam
paigns they have left the Impression with
the people that there is no honest man
in Washington but themselves, and that
the members Of Congress were more con-
cerned with their own affairs than with
the welfare OF the public at large
Compliments His Associates.
Il do not say that the senators and
representatives are all that they should
be; but in my twenty-five years asso-
citation with them 1 have met hundreds
OF them. and not five OF them could be
bought to support q policy which they
believe to be wrong. 1 regret to say.
however. that they do not always have
the courage to do what they know to be
r1ght. 1t is not venality, but cowardice,
which is the great evil that faces us
today.
Il call upon you senators and repre-
sentativeS to make the public at large
feel that the judgment of the Senate on
any question is just, is courageous, and
is wise. l believe that protective tariff
Is a fallacy. and in the heat of a cam
paign may have called il robbery, but
never have / doubted the honesty Of it's
advocates.
Put an end to the bitter denunciations
In campaigns, and the calling of names,
and especially ugly ones, and explain
each issue OF importance to the public
without attacking the integrity of the
men who founded it,
Senator Bradley Special Guest.
The dinner was given in honor Of Sena-
tor Bradley of Kentucky by c. Lee Cook
of Louisville
The other speakers included Senators
Bradley, John Sharp Williams Lodge,
Bristow, Bacon and Oliver and c. Lee
Cook Those present included Senators
Wliiams, Overman, Bacon, Fletcher,
MARITIME. Paynter. Johnston, Mark Smith.
Smith of South Carolina, Bristow, Lodge
Crane, Townsend. Brandegee. Cummins.
Crawford. Borah, McCumber. Works
William Alden Smith, Dillingham;, Clark
sutherland. Bailey. Bradley. Page, Oliver
q nd /, I