Punch (99.1890)

[" Business ! " cries the
Sweater, when remonstrated
with for paying the poor
Match-box makers twopence-
farthing or twopence - half-
penny a gross, whilst his own
\ profits reach 22£ to 25 per
cent.—Daily News.']

Punch to the Stceating
Shyloch.

Eh? " Business is busi-
ness " ? Sheer cant, Sir!
Pure gammon ?
Of all the inhuman, sham
Maxims of Mammon,
This one is the worst,
For under its cover lurks

cruelty callous,
With murderous meanness
that merits the gallows,
And avarice accurst.

Oh, well, I'm aware, Sir,
how ruthless rapacity

Sumttr (to Mr. Punch). " No Use your interfering. Business is Business 1" Loves to tak^e shelter, with

Mr ?. yes, and uncommonly bad business, too, for THEM. couldn't the large firmsi take a CUUmng mendacity

Trifle less Profit, and put a little Pleasure into the Business of these poor starving Worriers?_Neath an old saw ,