"BUSINESS IS BUSINESS."

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5034, 2 March 1885, Page 2

"BUSINESS IS BUSINESS."

This tautological and tantalising phrase probably covers a larger multitude of sins than charity. When the grin ring ghoulv of finance has just successfully squeezed the breath out of a rival he comforts his grunting conscience with "Business is business." When " Shylock" has glutted his thirst with foreclosures, and brought ruin and misery upon his victims, he shrugs his shrivelled shoulders and mutters V Business is business." When the' heathenish landlord has thrown the unfortunate tenant into the street, and squeezed- out hope from, hu heart, he chuckles to himself " Busineae is business." The bankrupt, who has just settled for ten cents on the dollar, counts over his horde of thievings and whispers "Business is business." 'I he turf swindler, ' Rambling fraud, the highway man, the housebreaker,, the common theif, defends each his devilish brinies with " Bqsineis is business." The expression has become the cloak of villainy and the -mask *f wrong doing. Beneath its detestable fold ' the eatthroat hides and the asHssraiurkr. It is the synonym of fraud; treachery, and inhumanity. It shorild;be .execrated by all hooest and honorable men,'for it is the badge of rascality and the insigoia of vice. Away with the foul phrase! Let it not longer contaminate the lexicon'of cam* meroe and trade. ', . - „ „ ;

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