The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-03-24

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what a sad and nterostlus personality
I was that OF pscl Wiirde. scion of house
thai wns famous Tor its works in arts
I n literature ana science. and himself one
1 0f ihc most delicate. acute aud perfect
/ literary artists of his day Condemned
/ % shameful imprisonment for unspcasa-
! hie crimes le served hts timo and eamo
/ into the world agnin Few friends were
/ f nhful to nim and hc had year lud r.
4 haif of freedom end died. Hc loft behind
HIM documeut which has now hecn
I gwen io The world t IBIS friend Robert
/ Hoss. who s,is &c "De profundis." % was
written white Oscar Willie was ln prison
aud Sc was ,he only Thing Doc wrote while
/ thcre an 8 he declares that "a man must
/ isNrtcss himself and so ho barcs his SOUL
slows us his grief his rage. his sorrow.
lie repentance .and his courageous rec
solve to ro ont into the world hravcN
and complete BITS acknowledgment bis
mtstic carcer. Thus hc explains his
conduct:
/ was a man who stood % symbolic re-
latons TO the ant and culture of my aee
/ ! had realized this for myself at the very
dawn of my mnntaod. and had forced my
lass to realize 20 afierword Fow mon
I held such a position iu their own lite
/ tmc, and have it 50 Acknowledged. ~
g. usually disccrncd. 81 dlscerned at al,
! by tine historian or the critic long after
/ 10th the man ana his age have passed
away, With me ir wins different : fcl-
D ls Dc
aas @ symbolic figure lut his rela gyns
were to The passion OF hls aee and jas
/ voarmess of pnssion. Mine were to sou,--
thiug more noble. more permanent OF
more vital issue. Of larger scope
1'ne gods had given me almost every
/ thing. Tut ! let myself be lurcd into long
| spells of scuscless and sensual ease. /
amused myself with being q aaneur. q
dudy. a n.an OF fashion surrounded
myself with the smaller natures and the
imeauer minds. / became the spcndthrift
OF mv own genius, and 90 waste an eten-
al youth gave me @ curious joy. Tired OF
lehtg on the heights deliberately went "a
the depths in the scach for new sonsa-
ton. What the paradox was To- me in
The sphcr, Of thought, rerversty became
to me Zoo the sphere OF passion. Deslr,
dt the end. was "a mnlady or madness
or both. GREW careless of the lives al
Others. took pleasure where It please,
u.r and passed ON. forgot that evers
liulc action OF common day makes or an.
makes character, AID that therefore wha
enc has done in the secret chamber on,
has some day 90 ny aloud on the house
top ceased to bc lord of myself wal
no longer the captain Of ny soul and di,
} not know &C. ] allowed pleasure To- domi
. nate. I ended On horrible disgrace Their
! IS only ono th'ng 70 me now absolute
humanity
{ md then as To hts hopes lie tells u
, irat at first hr was fully resolved oi
: suicide so soon as ne should be released
Cher DE determined thnt ho would %
through the world with long-drawn fac
4 aaC carrying a0 air Of gloom wheroeve
he went, but by aud oy another mood ex
dressed itsef add be writes;
, Il thn sm not ashamed Of my punish
incnt as / hope not TO be. 1 shall h'
4 able to ihink, and walk and live will
freedoms In the very fact tha
people VIII recognize me wherever J g
! aoj know al, about my life, as far as fl
I fcnics go. I can disoen something FOR me
J u WIN force ON me the necessity Of agah
. asserting myself as n artist and "a
I soon as | possibly CON. u ! con produc
only one beautiful work OF art I shall b.
! ablc 10 rob malice Of a. venom, ana cow
j ar1ico OF IT'S sneer. ana to pluck ont Ia
touaue Of scom by The roots
I And # life be- as it surely is. problem
to me. I ann no less Il problem TO ifc
! People mus, adopt some at,itudo towar
mo. ana SO pass Judgment both on Them
Z solves and me. ! need not say am no
ialKine of particular individuals. TN
ciAy people would care TO be wl,h nov
I are artists and people who have suffer
j cd. these WHO know what beauty Is an
I those who know what sorrow is; nobod
! Cis, interests me
llc has passed through every phase o
! su0ering but Che bitterness has passc
a0ay and hc writes:
! Mortality does not help me. Z ann
! Lo,E antinonian. ] am one of these wh
Z acc made for exc,p ,ptons not for lave
Z Iau while see that there Is nohn
I wroug in what ONE does sec that cher
I IS something WRONG ip what orc becomc
D. is wen 10 have learned .H3t
4 want 10 get Go TIE point when ] sho
ice rble 20 s.y quite siupiy and withou
Z oGtcauon. ,hat the two gre .,i'iu
I points n my Ire were gl.vn hoy f8the
j sent mo 10 ONfoid. aud when societ
\ sort me TO prison. ! win NOT say thn
( f"ison g. the best iring tnat could haV
. rapncned 20 mo. for that phrase woul
4 sayol of TOO great bitterness toward nay
4 solC would sooner say on hear it sal
Z o. me that was 800 typical chud a
ny age that 800 my pervergiy and 10
Z u1t pervrsity's sake 1 tuned iae goo
: th.ugs af ny Ute 10 evil and the ev
umss Of nv lfe 20 good
: Ite religion ~ his mother comes .
fhe in prison with immense oonsolntio
4 emo he rXpr,sseg tne hope that 10 the ga
ur he NAV write of TWO subjects o
Which ho dWircs DO eypress himself on
Z is. Christ ps tho ProcHre oi the Roman
30" Movement n Lne.' ue other q
Z Thc Artists ife Considered ln Iis re
& t'ion 20 Conduct" art IS stm 20 be- "a
in an 10 him
4 And he eEds DIS "crv in the night
i whh this touun rassaee OF resigna
Z ron and Of houo
Z an trials arc trials for ones me- ju.
2 al all sentences are sentences OF dcat
Z atd three timcr have = been tried Th
y hrsi time ! left the box 90 bee arrested Oh
4 second ume 10 be led back 90 th, hous
I, NJ detention the third time to pass ini
< constituted it win lnvc mo- place r.
! nc has none 10 offer. but nature who's
Z eacet rains fall 0p uujusi ana just alik