Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1918 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

The idle rich are showing their right to be bn earth; to war we see them going, to scrap for all they're worth. Not sullenly or slowly, and not with feet congealed, but with a fervor holy the rich boys seek the field. They’re fighting in the navy, and every morn they pray, ‘Oh, let us knock the gravy from some fat foe today!’’ They’re training and they're drilling with patriotic vim, they’re full of pep and willing to sacrifice a limb. Their lives at home were sunny, it was their joy and pride to blow in all the money their fathers would provide. * The* rode in cstrhioned motors, regardless of the cost, and I and other voters considered them a frost. But now we see them piling where raging armies meet, and they are surely proving, that they’re as good as wheat. The gilded lads are building themselves a laurel wreath; they’ve shaken off the gilding, and shown the gold beneath. Their fathers pay the taxes, with smile, serene and high, and they swing battle-axes, and make the Teuton fly. They are so deep in slaughter, they heed not bulls and bears; on land, in air and water, you see the millionaires.