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Waipawa Mail - Tuesday, June 11, 1895
The Oscar Wilde scandal is a delicate subject for a newspaper to comment upon, but the Otago Times has managed to do it neatly. Dealing with the subject of base vices historically, it is shown that great wealth accumulations, and the aggregation of wealthy people in cities have always tended to produce immorality. From consideration of the past and the present this lesson is drawn for the guidance of the future: "That the labor of life, the work and struggle, the anxiety and the worry which men and women are so apt to dread, are, after all, the great tonics of mind and body that preserve the human being against descent in the moral scale. So that the parent who works and struggles that his children may live in idleness and luxury may be one and the same time sowing the seeds of their destruction and assisting in the degeneration of the race."
Colonist - Friday, June 7, 1895
The Oscar Wilde scandal is a delicate subject for a newspaper to comment upon, but the Otago 'Times' has managed to do it neatly. Dealing with the subject of base vices historically, it is shown that great accumulations and the agregation of wealthy people in cities has always tended to produce immorality. From consideration of the past and present this lesson is drawn for the guidance of the future:—"That the labor of life, the work and struggle, the anxiety and worry which men and women are so apt to dread, are, after all, the great tonics of mind and body that preserve the human being against a descent in the moral scale. So that the parent who works and struggles that his children may live in idleness and luxury may be at one and the same time sowing the seeds of their destruction and assisting in the degeneration of the race."