Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1919 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

When thirst has made us faint and weary, and sore and on the blink, we always have such lakes as Erie, at which to get a drink. Some look with dire and dark misgiving, upon the days to come, and say there’ll be no Joy In living, without 4he demon rum. I hold said demon in abhorrence, I'm glad he to flee; I'll blow the foam oN the St. Lawrence, and drink It down with glee. One half of all the old world’s sorrow was brought about by booze; and I am glad that on the morrow' his number he will lose. I’ve never seen a man the better, more worthy of his salt, for carrying Inside his sweater a load of liquors malt. The world will multiply its splendors, and homes will be made glad, when diamond studded rum hole tenders can’t sell their goods to dad. The Joint still stands will all Its gilding, but soon its graft ’twill Jose, and wages then will go for building, which used to go for booze. To talk of thirst Is vain and dippy; why yearn for liquids pink? We always have the Mississippi, three thousand miles of drink.