Has The World Gone Mad?

December, 1916

What a lack of reason In this earthly throng! In and out of season Everything goes wrong; Over there in Europe Kaiser, king and czar, Raise a mighty flare up, Plunge a world in war.

Neither king nor kaiser Down in Mexico, Are the people wiser? Echo answers, "No!" There, contending factions Murder, pillage, burn; Plunder and exactions Everywhere you turn.

Has the world gone crazy? Are the men all fools? Is our thinking hazy, Spite of all our schools?