The Bird O' Freedom - Saturday, April 13, 1895
This report was originally published in English. Machine translations may be available in other languages.
WAY OF THE WORLD.
Political Pepper and Social Salt.
(BY THE HEN EDITOR.)
The leprousness of English civilisation never had a clearer illustration than in the stinking Oscar Wilde scandal. When the noble profession of Letters is tainted with an unnatural lust such as reeked in the rottenness of Rome, what can we expect anywhere? The brilliant Wilde, the successful poet, novelist, playwright, the pet of society, the lion of the clubs, a beast! It seems incredible. If true it shows more than ever that Anglo-Saxon Society is upon the very verge of that gulf into which mighty nations of antiquity were precipitated headlong.