Show ALL GENTLEMEN IN AMERICA man mane a own fault if he does not de serve the title neither a poor man nor a rich man Is or can be a gentleman in ameri amerl ca in the sense of the terms as in a monarchical country or under an aristocratic system of society says the new york sun the word gentleman Is unknown in our law in the sense of expressing moral qualities the only sense in which it can be used here the term gentleman applies of course to every man en entitled e antrin n ru epically to receive it as a designation of courtesy but even in that usage it Is a term so vague and indefinable that it Is not worth talking about it may be said however never to apply properly to any american who boasts of being a gentleman because of any accident of his mere material circum stances or to any american who Is troubled in mind lest on account of them he should not receive the title it if anybody in america is not a gentle man it Is nis als own fault |