---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Fletcher, Isaiah W.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 8
number: 11
published: 1905-09
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Isaiah W. Fletcher, "The Right Way and the Wrong: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 8, no. 11 (September 1905): 848.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0811unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera0811unse
start_page: 848
end_page: 848
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1905-09)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0811unse
  publication_year: 1905
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1905, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# The Right Way and the Wrong: A Poem

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                     Wrong should not be heeded.

                  So while we battle on life's way,
                     With things that seem no use,
                  We must be careful lest we give
                     The useful things abuse.
                                                    Isaiah    W. Fletcher.
   Salt Lake City, Utah.