The Boston Post - Tuesday, May 14, 1895
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A BAD LOT.
The collapse of the prosecution of the unspeakable Oscar Wilde - for the disagreement of the jury and the release of Wilde on bail is evidently a collapse - is generally accepted to mean that the government is restrained from pushing things by consideration of the danger of exposing wickedness in higher places.
This is something more than gossip, and no one calls it slander. The fact is widely recognized that the "upper crust" of English society is a pretty bad lot.
But it is no worse than is found anywhere in every society made up of a rich, idle and privileged class, whose members have exhausted legitimate sensations in their pursuit of amusement. It is a condition to which American Society is approaching, in these days of the multiplication of great fortunes - but which, let us hope, this country will be long in reaching.