Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1918 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

On Jordan’s stormy banks I. stand, and watch, with cheerful eye, the hurried Turks burn up the land, as they go whizzing by. Through storied scenes they wildly rush their coattails flapping wide, they're scratching for the underbrush, where they hope to hide. By cool Siloam’s sliady rill the Turk, in deep distress, is wondering how Kaiser Bill got him in such a mess. Could I but stand where Moses stood, and view the landscape o’er, I’d see the Turk vamoose for good from Jordan s sacred shore. The rose that blooms beneath the hill must shortly fade away, and so the Turk, with lust

to kill must perish and decay. Too long, too long he’s hung around, a blemish on rills sphere; hark, from the tombs a doleful sound tells that his end is near. The Turks still trots on -weary limbs, and leaves much dust behind; and, as we read, forgotten hymns, unbidden, come to mind;.. The hillsides anti the towns and streams knew Oj«e, long, len>g who has inspired the hopes and dreams that all good Christians know. It is the soil of hallowed works, and it is good to see sueh moral lepers as the Turks chased out of Galilee. Oh, may they be forever banned, forever and a day, from Canaan’s fair and happy land, where their possessions lay.