Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1918 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

The time has come io pay the tax upon my chattels and n y dwelling; of rupees many h".rd-earned lacs from my strongbox I must H? shelling. And when I've paid The goodly sum for which the tax eallector itches, with bats in hand men still will come, to ’ each me for any meagre riches. This slogan is forever called, ’ Dig up! Dig up We need ■ your, money, to build a .iefuge' for the bald, and ouy old spinsters cake and honey! Dig up. to buy the paupers grub, forgetting that they loafed all summer: dig up, to help the Country Club pay off the carpenter and plumber. Dig up, dig up, the village waits, to see you fill its park with benches: dig up, to purchase roller skates for soldiers in the foreign trenches. Dig up, to buy the beaten clothes, and saddles for the alligators; dig up, to buy the Eskimos some up-to-date refrigerators.” My* yearly tax I'll pay today, on house and lot, and other rigging, and gladly, gladly would I pay, if that would end this constant digging.