Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1916 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

When I have got a goodly wad, I say that wealth’s an empty gawd, a cheap, deluding snare; with fluent tongue and aspect wise, I stand around and moralize, and roast the millionaire. I look with sorrow and disdain on those who sweat and strive and strain to get another plunk; I tell them money is but dross, a sordid dream, a total loss, a worthless lot of junk. But when I’ve had some small reverse, that makes my bank roll look sick, 05 worse, on lucre I am bent; I hustle till I melt my fat, and you may see me break a slat, to nail another cent. Forgotten all the platitudes that I dispensed in lofty moods, in times when I was flush; forgotten all the moral saws, and every text that ever was, as I pursue the cush. And when I've made a roll again, I sternly lecture weary men, and chide them for their greed, for striving for the picayune, and say the trail behind them’s strewn with morals gone to seed.