The Wrangell Sentinel

GERMANY HAS FEMINISM

There is some interest, if not equal importance, in the fact that America, reputed throughout the world as the land of feminism, the land of privileged womanhood, is at war with the country in which the claims of feminism are most universally and violently detested and the claims of masculinism most loudly asserted and generally accepted. Herr Voecthing wrote a book a few years ago on "The American Cult of Woman," in which he congratulated his own Germany on being safe from the danger that was engulfing the United States in ruin and degradation.

If we acknowledge the awful impeachment brought against us out of the logic of kultur, what shall we say on our part of the masculinism which expresses itself among the men of Germany in a horrified, cruel and angry outcry against the "treachery" and "unworthiness" of German women in performing little acts of kindness and humanity for the prisoners within the gates? So dominant is this masculinism in the kaiser's empire that women themselves are among its staunchest adherents, says Philadelphia Bulletin. No other land could ever make a creed of subjecting to constant insult and cruelty the helpless and the wounded. The masculinism of America is of a different sort, despite the gloating assertion of Herr Voecthing that we have sunk too low to lay claim to anything of such a title. We prefer our own variety.