Chapter 12

COMMERCIAL MORALITY 308

Are Americans more Honest than Englishmen?--An American Peerage--Senators and other Aristocrats--Trade and the British Upper Classes--Two Views of a Business Career--America's Wild Oats--The Packing House Scandals--"American Methods" in Business--A Countryman and Some Eggs--A New Dog--The Morals of British Peers--A Contract of Mutual Confidence--Embalmed Beef, Re-mounts, and War Stores--The Yellow Press and Mr. Hearst-- American View of the House of Lords.