The Weekly Herald - Friday, May 31, 1895

Passing Notes.
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MR. JUSTICE WILLS, who tried Oscar Wilde and his dirty accomplices, says the case was the worst he had ever tried. Judges, however, have a habit of speaking in superlatives when a case of unusual notoriety comes before them. Mr. Wills may not have had many such cases to deal with, and certainly it is not every day that so polished a mass of corruption as Oscar meets with his deserts, but justice, and especially this justice, must be very blind if he does not know that Oscar is only a type of aristocratic rottenness. From royalty downwards the whole mass is leavened with the leaven of unrighteousness and impurity, and nothing has done so much to destroy the purity of English life as the disgusting practises of her "nobility," and the wealthy snobs who are aping the fashions of their aristocratic patrons.