Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1919 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

We are shipping out the traitors, sending them to other shores, shipping out the agitators, anarchists and kindred bores; and I hope they’ll all be potted; all be shipped abroad and swatted, all the freaks whose heads are spotted with the customary sores. If a gent comes o'er the ocean here to settle down and toll, we will greet him with emotion, treat him as decreed by Hoyle; we will give him- all the chances to improve his circumstances, and rejoice as he advances, and with him divide the spoil. A.’ a host we are a model, if the guest’s on labor bent; but we have no use for twaddle of a traitorous intent; if the comer’s elocution calls for row and revolution gainst each sacred institution, we despise that erring gent. In t’ e past we viewed with smiling all the loud and frothy boys, for we found them most beguiling, with their whiskers and their noise; but the war has made us sterner, and the frantic language burner, and the blood and crossbones yearner rather peeves us and annoys. So we stop him as he preaches, calling for our country’s goat, and we seize him by the breeches, and the collar of his

coat; so we send him sailing, salt' Ing o’er the oeean wild and walling, and he cusses while he’s bailing dirty water from bis boat.