Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1918 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

They send xt bunk by every mail, the mew with gorgeous schemes; they tell me if FTI send them kale they'll make -me wealthy without fail, beyond my wildest dreams. Oh, every day I get a raft of circulars and sack, explaining ho w Dame F-brmne laughed on gents who-tried the senders’ graft, and they grew beastly rich. V> hy do I sprain my hack to make a pittance dire to see? If I'd invest in some ones fake I soon would have so ■big a stake I'd grin at old John D. If I’d invest in orange groves, or buy some gilt-edged stocks in mills for making wooden doves, backaction chums, revolTfug stoves, I’d soon have lots of rocks; And yet T arc content to toil the old titnehonored way: to tarn at times the midnight oil. that I may see the kettle boil, and buy the children hay. Tve known a lot of down-and-outs. poor = broke and sick: and most of them were easy scouts, who tried out pipe dreams, shed their doubts, and tried to get rich quack. , Why should I long for wealth to burn? Methinks it is a crime for unearned increment to ream: se I am satisfied to earn one ruble at a tiuse.