The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-04
Bailey Supports Charter

Daley OuppOA Us ClldT Ter
Senator Josiah w. Bailey comes out strongly
for perpetual preparedness for constitutional
democratic government and the abolishion of
pressure groups.
In statement from Washington he takes
occasion to tell his constituency that he will
support ratification of the San Francisco Char
ter "earnestly and without reservation But
he also warns that the Charter, within itself,
docs not guarantee peace or security That
can come only through the support of the
people at large.
He writes:
ut is my opinion that the security of our
country and the peace of our people will de-
pend upon the people themselves rather than
upon treaties, even great treaties like this
one. 1t would be most unfortunate if we should
ull ourselves into sense of security upon
ratification of this treaty by the nations which
brought it forth. There has always been a
powerful will to peace in our country. Our
people are peaceful people and they hate war.
What l fear is that SO many do not seem
to understand that the security of this coun-
try depends upon the people themselves and
upon their determination to keep this COIN
try strong and great. We must not only main
tain our present great Navy we must also
have a very strong Army. We must continue
to be prepared Few of us realize how nearly
we came to losing this war by reason of the
fact that we were unprepared and it required
fully two years to prepare us. We cannot af-
ford to disarm and l am not for disarma-
ment. On the other hand l am for preserving
the military and naval and air strength of
OR country and for keeping this country at
the very front in armed might. The United
States is at this moment probably the strong
est and the mightiest of all the nations I
hope it will continue to be so. Undoubtedly
Their. will be propaganda for disarmament and
for pacifisn and it will be well meant and
| in good faith-some of it will be in bad faith
but those who yield to it will probably yield
in good faith This happened before, it can
happen again.
1.-The other matter that concerns me is the
propag anda in this country tending to destroy
faith in our form of government, tending to
break down our system of liberty and our
system of representative constitutional democ-
racy.
| Another matter that l think threatens our
country is the agitation by pressure groups.
Each group seems to wish the Congress to
conduct the government in its interest. This
government must be conducted always in the
n..,,.onal interest 1t is very well for group
to present it's cause but it should present it
with due Difference to those of us who must
consider the national interest. Men ought not
to run for office by way of catering to one
group another. They ought to be made to
declare that they are intellectually for the
national interest above any group demand.
We cannot afford to divide this country up
into factions We do not want a capitalistic
government in America nor do we want a
farmer government in America, nor do we
want labor government in America. We
must always be striving to maintain this gov
eminent as a government by the people, for
the people and of the people, as a whole
l take it the reader knows that l have in
mind the recent efforts by groups to throw
men out of office because they did not do
the will of the leaders of the group. I am
not for this sort of thing. lam against it,
and I believe the people of North Carolina
are against it,