Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1919 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

1 told you, Wilhelm, h<fW ’twould be, when you unsheathed your snickersnee, and said you’d rule the world; I said that any bonebead king who tried to pull so coarse a thing, would from his throne be hurled. And now your splendors all are gone, your crown and scepter are in pawn, no homage do you know; and while, distressed, you walk the floor, I “Whisper at your bedroom door, “Oh, Bill! I told you so!” Your German Gott, to whom you call, has turned your picture to the wall, the last great, crushing blow; and while your fingernails you chew, I whisper softly down the flue, “Oh, Bill! I told you so!” You wished to set time 'marching back along a dark and dismal track to feudalism’s age; you’d have the world no longer see the institutions of the free, in your blind, vandal rage. I told you ’twas too big a stunt for one anointed Prussian runt and tried to stay your hand; but you laughed all my words to scorn and blew a blast upon your horn, and Btrafeu to beat the band. And now you go your path alone; you have no scepter and no throne, no courtiers bending low; and while you dream of seas of gore, I’m at the keyhole of your door, to say, “I told you so!” You’ll hear me when the midnight rain is streaming down the window pane, and when the breezes blow; oh, when you sleep and when you eat, you’ll hear me evermore repeat, the words, “I told you so!”