Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-23 | Page 5 | Walt Mason

- 1 Walt Mason i V THE PRISON. We have to punish those who fall to walk the narrow way. for law and nrdcj uiusi prevail, or there's the deuce to pay; and so we put lewd men In Jail, for stealing steal-ing hales of ha And we've been jailing sinful guvs through all th bitter years! since Adam brushed the pesky files off his brindled steers. and often, often, 1 doubta must rl If wisdom here appears We've jailed Hueh multitude of men, for long or ahorter spells, wove sent so manv to the pen and locked them In their ells. If jails Improved Mil- world, win then, it should be wearing bells. And rerj time we Jail a skate for swiping '.ales of hay. we Itt some greater reprobate repro-bate unshacUod go his wav, to bear hie plunder in a crate, or haul it In a dra-. The prison is a hua-sMv place that eek of nameless grime, and he ia far from heaven's grace, who's In It. doing time, and bitter lines ar. on bis face, and in his heart Is crime Hevetigc on those who put blin iher.-. Is what lie thinks of most, the jurist In lib: padded chair, (ho stall-fed bgal host, his soul is cank.i.'l In despair, and Justice seems a ghost Some day me obi world must invent a better kind of pen that will not make the errlnp gent go forth to sin again; for prison Is a punishment for beasts, and not for men-