The San Francisco Examiner - Sunday, May 26, 1895
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It is fortunate for the Marquis of Queensberry that he found nobody to take his bet of 1,000 to 1 that Oscar Wilde would be acquitted. Wilde has been convicted and will stay in prison for two years. It is an awful punishment for a man of his tastes and training, but he will get little sympathy in bearing it. He has been made a vicarious sacrifice for the sins of a whole era. The end of the century will bury its depravity in his cell, and turn joyfully to the fresh air of moral revival outside. With Oscar Wilde in jail, Wildeism has had its day. Tastes have changed, and for some time to come good morals and simple manliness will be in fashion.