Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1917 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

When Kaiser Bill placed on ice, and war’s ,no longer loose, the merchant prince boost the price must -have some new excuse. I’m tired of hearing dealers say. “The goods you’re asking for have gone up half a plunk today, due solely to the war.” I go to buy a pair of pance, whereat the clothier cries, “The war has killed the sheep in France, which makes the prices rise.” I go to have my whiskers stained a rich and lustrous blue; the barber says, “I’m really pained to lift the price on you, but all the barks and buds and herbs of which my dyes were made, were harvested by Huns and Serbs, and' war has spoiled the trade.” 1 do not care about ‘the price of anything I buy; I’ll cough up for a chunk of ice, a bulldog or a pie; the men who balk at paying kale are people I abhor; but this old formula is stale':’ “Price up because of war.” Oh. happy day when Wilhelm’s goose is cqoked, to walk no more, and we shall hear a new excuse in every retail store!