Truth - Sunday, April 7, 1895
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GRUMBLES AND GROWLS.
By "Asmodeus."
Chiefly Concerning the Corrupting Tendency of Politics, the Extravagance of
Civil Servants, and the Waggishness of the Cycling Fiend.
Oscar Wilde -- who, by the way, isn't half as big a fool as he looks -- thinks it is a burning shame that there should be one law for men and another for women. 'I think,' continued Oscar, 'that there should be no law for anybody.' And then, with the beautiful consistency of poets and politicians, the aesthetic crank went off and 'took the law' on the giddy old gent called Queensberry for saying that he, Oscar, was an ass and something of a sanguinary sinner as well.