Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 191?-19??, 1915-11-25
THE WAR ON KITCHEN.

THE WAR ON KITCNIA.
Anyway, and at all events, the North
Carolina delegation is going to loom
az a big factor in National affairs
when Congress- meets. Mr.. Kitohin Id
certain to become known to fame or
to tnfamy. It will be infamy II the
New York newspapers can M Q mans
place in American history. In their
sight to oppose Preparedness In
form, or under any circumstances, is
an objectionable and unforgivabls Of
tense. because any interference with
Preparedness is an interference WITH
| politics and with business In .
north.
Mr.. Kitchin il up against it. In
this fight we see patriotism and q. S.
Steel brousht into happy J~uxtapos1tion.
The armour plate factories and b
patriots of both high and low degree
are found in serried ranks. OF course
this Preparedness doctrine has never
been Democratic party doctrine. Goa
tariwise, 1t has always been assumed
that most Democratic statesmen look
ed with disapproval pom large array
and naval appropriations. President
Wilson cannot single handed and alone
create and fashion Democratic pr1n-
cip1es and policies. Months g he
told a visiting delegation Of women
that he could give them no definite
expression relative to suffrage be-
cause his party had not spoken. Of
late he has emphasized the fact that
the que. ton of Preparedness is O p
party matter and should not be made
] so. And yet a number Of North Caro-
lima newspapers. following the lead of
THE eruptive friends of armour plate,
are demanding the virtual extinction
and determination Of MT. Kitchin be-
cause he has declined to recognize j. n
Preparedness q straight out party is
sue.
If men like MT. Kitchin are not To
be permitted to exercise their individ-
ua1 intelligence, and consult their in
dividual conscience, why a Congress?
! The executive departments have all
the facilities for rubber stamp work.
Even the kaiser doubtless feels him
self under the necessity Of having to
J consult his general staff when it comes
to dealing with military matters. Is a
member of the American Congress to
be offered the alternative Of abdisa-
ton or absolutism?
But this we know: right Or wrong,
what Claude Kitchin thinks, that
Claude Kitchin is going to asy. The
question then is, does Democracy
want hat kind of a leader? Judging
by the angry demand, increasing in
volume, that he resign, the party does
not want such a man at all. And Il
he isn't wanted, will he be obliged,
sooner or later, to retire under fire?
The trouble with Mr.. Kitchin is that
he is an American first and a Demo
crat afterward. Mr.. Wilson, as be-
fore stated, has already announced
that he will appeal to the Republicans
for support for the administration de-
tense program, thereby intimating that
he doesn't consider it a party question.
But that wouldn't affect Claude Kitch-
in. If the Democracy proposed as o
pure party question something that he
thought detrimental to the country we
give Kitchin the credit Of believing
that he would smash the Democracy
as hard as he could-not as cheerful
ly as he has been accustomed to hit
the Republicans, but just as earnestly.
But, under our system, what any
party wants in a house leader is less
patriot and more partisan. Note, we
say what "any party wants." not what
the country needs. We are firmly con-
WINGED that Kitchin is one of the ma
tons assets, for NJ other purpose
than to serve as a brake on the mill
~tarists. Whether he is equally an as
set to the Democratic party is doubt
full. If he withdraws from the leader
ship of that party in the house there
i a be no further question of the
value of the fight he is making, and
he could devote his attention to it ex-
clusively, instead of being compelled
to defend himself against the furious
onslaughts that are now being made
on him.
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