Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1917 — PHILOSOPHY OP WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OP WALT MASON

i , I’d. hate to be a - German and fight for Kaiser Bill, WaU» U determine why I went forth, to hfn r The ' Frenchman and the Britos have causes .fine and high. and when a foe they've smitten. they know the reason: why. . The Russian and the Romm. the BeLgiaa and the Serb, shoot up the armored foeman autocracy to curia For freedom men are fighting ®a Europe's blood drehrb&d iarfe; the German, at this writing. for anment stands. The kaiser. siys, “Go slaughter. ■ go butcher- ±2: die. make men’s blood ■ run bike water, and do not ask me why. Go. vassals, serfs. and .-wy wrath oa all my foes: I am the great What-is-it, . and what I tell' -yo® Don’t ask me Questions s®y, don’t prate of wrong or .right;:, .rm the anointed Willie, who Mds you go and fight. lam the —i in heaven. I am the moon and stars; to ma alone is given the heart asd front of Mars. And- when I Md yog wallow in blood up r® your eaurs, my dictum you must ,f©23owf Koch. Deutschland und rwei-riers’T And so, like driven cattle, the ’ go to war. and voider, .as they battle, what they are bleedimg for.