The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-04-17
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than it was for Congressman Kitchii
, to weep."-Mrs. Carrie Chapman
. Gait
There is no doubt that the Hon
Jeanette Rankin did weep, which
was quite natural Mr.. Claude Kitch
In has q romantic Christian name, bu
he is too big for tears New YorL
Sun.
''They order these things better in
France"
| The Suns Paris correspondent tells
us that the incident of Miss Rankin's
vote on the war resolution has arous-
ed much comment in the gay Frepch
capital Some saw In 1t the failure
! OF women representatives, others
were naively surprised that a woman
who was able to win an election con-
| test should show such tender sensi-
bility. Nobody laughed, however. Ed
itorially. the Temps honors Miss Ran
kin for the holiness of her sentiments
and says: Politics for her is neither
port nor a business, but relig-
ion. Mademoiselle. France. which, as
you know, is so ferceIy resoiute to
fight, far from blaming, understands,
excuses, smiles and consoles you"
We might cite and append to this
the friendly words Of the Courier
Journal, which perfectly understood
Miss Rankin's womanly feeling and
had neither heart or mind to chide
either her emotion or her vote.
AS for Mr.. Kitchin, the presidents
are likewise with him. There was
another Claude not unknown to fame
Claude Melmotte of the beloved
Bulwer drama whom he might call
TO the witness chair. When Old Da-
mas says to the young soldier who,
all broke up by the threatened loss Of
his girl, had burst into tears, "be u
man, my boy, be a man." the answer
comes quick and strong: 81 am a
mani It's bitter tears like these that
tell us wo are mem
Tho song of orpheus, Milton as
sures us, drew iron tears down PIu-
tos cheek" whilst Scott declares that
woe awaits a country when
She secs tears of bearded men"
(which let's Kitchin out, he being
clean shaven, as the Washington cor
respondents tell us.
or him, speaking seriously, the Sun
proceeds truthfully to say
Mr. kitchin is an honest man. He
is. according to his lights, q patriotic
man. Sometimes those lights seem
peculiarly dim and fliekering. as when
in 1915 he declared talk about pre-
paredness to be tommyrot, and assur
cd the people of his district that our
navy was second only to Great Brit
aims. Nothing that Mr.. Kitchin did
or said in the war session ju9tiiies the
sayagery OF the attacks upon him He
had an inalienable right 10 oppose our
entrance upon the war. But he has
that right no longer. The nation has
expressed itself. The gage of hattie
IL thrown down. All who today are
not earnestly, saerificingly, wholly on
the side OF the United States are trail
tors. III Mr.. kitchin persists IN MS
fight that explicit and ugly word viii
apply to him"
Our Information is to the effect that
MIR. kitchin intends nothing of the
sort and we join the Sun in declar'
ing that III after having made his
protest he is willing to subordinate
personal convictions to the win Of
the nation and TO give himself wholly
aud single-mindedly TO the chief work
before the nation today winning this
war--well and good Ii not, only his.
resignation should stand between him
and dismissal from his party hosts.
Truth to tell ii, what Mr. hifchin
said that night. and the way he said
IL, hit home to the Coarier-Journal
which has been something of an in