The Standard Union - Wednesday, April 10, 1895
This report was originally published in English. Machine translations may be available in other languages.
AT ALBANY.
OSCAR
WILDE'S FALL AND THE "HAY-
SEEDS"
No better evidence of the tremendous strides journalism has made is needed than the familiarity of even people in out-of-the-way places - mere hamlets - with the details of the fall of Oscar Wilde. Every country newspaper has sifted it out of the big metropolitan dailies and spread the facts before the rustics. It is interesting, too, to note the effect on the rural mind. This is an intelligent age, and all "hayseeds" are not ignorant. Their comments would do credit to the best circles in New York, even if unclassicly expressed. Evidently, they believe that, after all, art has some relation to morals, and that the art which "Oscar" fosters, like the bronze statues in New York, is founded on rottenness.