Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1916 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

When some old pickled critters, who’ve lapped up gin and rye, and every kind of hitters, get done with booze and die, we bend above their bodies, and say, quite lachrymore, “Poor victims of hot toddies! They were their own worst foes!” When any cheap old duffer, who’s failed, from first to last, concludes no more to suffer the cheerless mundane blast, we sadly gather round him, where he is lying low, and spring that gag, “Confound him' He was his own worst foe!” But It’s as sure as ginger—we know it passing well—-that all the failures injure the world in which they dwell. Society’s a loser when any one sinks low; no man ran be a boozer, and be his own worst foe. Though we have pity ample for onq immersed in gin, he sets a had example, and that's a deadly sin. He shows the human being a sodden thing and sad—a sight not fit for seeing bv any growing lad. The world, for virtue yearning, must view with alarm; at every bend and turning he works some grievous harm. And when the whiskey.gluttons at last turn up their toes, we sigh, “Doggone their buttons, they were their own worst foes!’’