The Weekly Herald - Friday, May 24, 1895
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Gleanings.
TOUCHING the Oscar Wilde scandal, the public are aware that purity is not the most distinguishing feature of certain members of our royal family. Yet mothers and maids, fathers and sons, scramble and scheme to pay them devotion, like certain savage tribes who worship most those deities who represent evil and vice. The immorality prevailing in the upper classes is a matter of common knowledge. The lowest life in filthiest of slums could not furnish such instances of domestic depravity as are revealed in aristocratic scandal cases. Our streets are full of women of convenience, many of them the victims of the classes who make the loudest howl, and unnatural and luxurious vices are the outcome of the demand created by the moneyed rouès.-- Reynolds.