Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1915 — WAJLT MASON [ARTICLE]

WAJLT MASON

The Poet Philosopher When the flags have ceased to flutter over ambush, siege and rout, then perhaps the kings will mutter, ‘What was all this scrap about? We have torn our lands asunder, ithas been a dandy war, but the time has come to wonder what in blitzen was it for? Now that for a little season we have ceased our gory fun, we’ll have time to fina a reason for the butchering we’ve done.” They'll have time, the kings and princes, to ransack each royal mind, but a reason that convinces will be mighty~ hard to find. For a while they will endeavor, each to vindicate his crown, but the true excuse will never from a throne be handed down. If an honest, candid kinglet told the truth, he would declare, ‘‘Bj* my halidom and cinglet, we were loaded up for bear; at each other we’d been yapping, springing warlike threat and cufve, and we had to do some scrapping, just to show we had the nerve. We were wild and we were woolly, on each shoulder was a chip, and we had to act the bully, or we feared we'd lose our grip.” Still the reeking cannon thunder, and there is no sign of peace, and the Sickened nations wonder what’s become of the police. A cargo of salmon recently shipped out of Vancouver consisted of 5,000,000 cans valued at $500,000 wholesale. Laid end (o end, the cans would reach a distance of 452 miles. The famous old city of La Pas, Bolivia, in a valley more than 12,000 feet above the sea, is the highest capital in the world, overtopping Lhassa, the far-famed capital of Tibet, Asia-, by several hundred feet.