Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1917 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

For peace that’s made in Germany the allies do not care; it would be cheap and verminy, not warranted to wear. The peace the kaiser’s pondering, and planning with a gun, would surely fade in laundering, the colors all would run. This war* The world is hating it, but peace would be mere punk, with Germany dictating it, and handing out the bunk. The allies are much wiser dumb, and wielding sword and creese, than arguing with kaiserdom about the terms of peace. When peace again is given us, and people know repose, and war's red dog, that’s driven us, back to its kennel goes, that peace must be no platitude, no phrases neatly turned, of wide and yielding latitude, to be ignored or spurned. No paper written gaudily, whose terms may be withstood, no fabric woven shoddily, or “something just as good.” When gentle peace has come again, it must have come to stay; no king shall make things bum again by starting up a fray. The peace that comes from Germany would last till Kaiser Bill Should once again determine he was strong enough to kill.