THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1915. "GERMANIA THE ELECT."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXV, Issue 10713, 4 November 1915, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1915. "GERMANIA THE ELECT."

Foi; consummate impudence downright the German newpapov j.s unrivalled hi the workl- - Kaiser's. illuminating arrogant!* is reflected in every ai-ticle published in Germ any. The truth, is carefullx concealed, and the gullible popular is fed upon .pabulum that satisfies th» literary appetite, (hut ivhicli ay ill s>&* ford little satisfaction when the pangs of hunger begin to'gnaw at tlia vitnis of the people. A recent article in tho ' 'Deutsche tu ug'' iustrates the ireniarkable met] rods adopted for the people witi* a consciousness of their own superiority. It js, perhaps, natural that appeal sliould ho made to the vanit** of tlio female sex, for it is they and their tender offspring who wilj feftl tlio pin eh most acutely when the inovitabl'i .pc-riod of interna? strops m>

vivos. But for unadulterated bombast, tiiio airticle on the "Deutseliw Tageszeitung" could .scarcely ho eclipsed. 'Hero it is, in nil' its lnunility and sweetness: —

"The degVe of a nation's Jvultur depends on tlie character of iis women. The Gorman ic woman cmbod:cs in the truest i'oiim the. German spirit, .'it al/ (its grandeur an< l •with all its little weaknesses. ,Sh». has ever proved herself the host in feminism, mud Jia.s remained, abjcsvo all, a woman, In 110 country in tho world has tho 'delie.u.te perfume of the i'eininino soul, tin; cliarm of w'omanlincss, iSO complexly vanished as It has in England. It wn.s reserved to tho English vote-virago to present tho most cK-mpleto picture of degraded, corrupt 'womanhood of tils world. The Gorman woman 'has been tlie medium. through which all that is great and noble in art, .science, and literature has been pfvni to European civilisation. Only so Ibng .as the ] ndo-Gvmanic racial lVmnants were still at hand in those countries did art continue to flourish and bloom in Italy, England, and Franco. To t!)io ideal ism of this n<eo tliiqso countries owe their works of art, their cathedrals, and monuments. It was tho Germanic blood .that .made posy Vole th 0 existence of a Columbus, a Dante, an Alighieri (sic), a Leonardo d:< Vinci, and a Shakespeare. With tho exhaustion ol' tho stock oi Germanic blood, decay set in. The Germanic element that once was among tile English has long ago vanished. T'he /Germanic soul' aims to fill the world with beings of mobility, not with slaves. This war had to come. It was forc-ordaincd. so that tho nations might bo crystali.sed. Tho mixturo was ton course, anvl iNia.ture loves not such blondings. Tlnis struggle 'is a purifying process. Ernn it tho pocples w- ; .ll arise tho stronger and better, and tho wisdom will then bo theirs to ■aoknow'ljed# .> that high above them all, nobler than all, towers Germania., tho Elect."