Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1917 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

; The men who make Ithe white print paper are trying out a getrich caper. No pent-up Utica contracts them, and no sane statute counteracts them. They vieiv Ye Printer's protests sourly, and keep bn raising prices hourly. At noon they send the price up higher, and laugh to scorn the frenzied buyer; and in the solemn midnight watches, they raise the price a few more notches. There is no reason for this plunder, for doubling ’'rices up like thunder, save that the paper sharks are greedy, and are not loath to strip the needy. From every section of the nation come cries of grief and agitation, from publishers and kindred colonels, who say they must suspend their journals, and take in washing for a livin’, unless relief to them is given. The paper makers hear the roaring, and see the flood of briny pouring—-the storm of wrath around them thickens—-and raise the price, to beat the dickbns. Before the finish of this winter, we shall behold, methinks, Ye Printer, shorn of his old time smile and chortle, draw near the gloomy souphouse portal, and draw’a free and filling ration provided by a weeping nation.