Show WHISKEY POEM mr A G lewis sends bends us ua the poem that follows and says enclose you will find copy of a poem written by a life convict in joliet ILL prison I 1 thought you might be able to use same in connection with your crusade against whiskey tikey every convict ra in every prison on knows what whiskey is because of what it hai bag done to him rod and the men around him if a convict wrote the verses prin ted here he wrote well and should haie hae had a better life and that life a better ending this poem will appear in two million separate newspapers at least and probably be published in many others any newspaper is welcome to take it and reprint it from this column read with understanding these verses might do in the world enough good to offset the crime of the unfortunate convict whatever that crime may have been THE EAR BAR A bar to heaven a c loor door to hell whoever named it named it well abar A bar to manliness and wealth A door to want and broken health A bar to honor pride and fame A door to grief and sin and shame A bar to home a bar to prayer A door to darkness and despair A bar to honored useful life A door to brawling senseless strife A bar to all that true an and d brave adoor A door to every drunkards grave abar A bar to joys that home imparts A door to tears and aching hearts abar A bar to li haven saven a door to hell whoever named it named it well THAT IS |