Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1916 — PROCESSIONAL. [ARTICLE]

PROCESSIONAL.

By Walt Mason.

The tumult and the shouting rise from Europe’s red and harried shore; i h (■ king - and eaptains, to their eyes/ are wading in a flood of gore; so let’s talk peace, already vet, Test we regret, lest we regret, The nation's honor we'll defend, whenever there shall rise the need: but to this country he's no friend who always wants to die and bleed; let’s flaunt no sword or bayonet, lest we regret, lest we regret. The Jingo fierce will never cease berating people safe and sane, who’d rather have the boon of peace than see the landscape strewn With slain ; let’s gently drown him in his sweat, lest we regret, lest we regret. Buihl up the army, if you will, and" make the navy great and strong; but don’t confess a lust to kill, or talk of bloodshed all day long: don't claim that war’s the one best bet, lest we regret, lest we regret. Don’t be too eager that our sons shall seek the sodden fields of gore, to furnish targets for the guns of men they never saw before: don’t whoop for death and dearth and debt, lest we regret, lest we regret,