The Bird O' Freedom - Saturday, April 20, 1895
This report was originally published in English. Machine translations may be available in other languages.
GOOD MEN AND TRUE.
TRIAL BY JURY.
The Butcher, The Baker, and Jury-Faker.
NOT FORGETTING ALFRED THE
GREAT.
His Antiquities and Greater Iniquities.
"We don't know whether Oscar Wilde ever wasted any of his stock of artistic æstheticism over a jury, but it is pretty certain that a jury did the trick for Oscar, and another jury will just about finish him. This shows that there is very little soul about a jury. It does not weep over the accused, with large sunflowers in its button-hole, or shed hunks of sympathy when its artistic temperament is invoked by counsel for the defence. A jury has no artistic temperament worth speaking of. It is more generally noted for having a heap of appetite.