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Rh K. WACHENBERG — Who fills yours?

DR. BLUETHE — The proprietor of the type.

K. WACHENBERG — And who fills his stomach?

DR. BLUETHE — The "party" and the public.

K. WACHENBERG — Consequently you must think just as the party and the public wants you to. But if you should now think and speak otherwise?

DR. BLUETHE — That is impossible, for my stomach knows what to expect "if he should become guilty of this little mistake."

K. WACHENBERG — "In a wider sense?"

DR. BLUETHE — In the widest sense.

K. WACHENBERG — And what do you call this, politics or philosophy of the stomach?

DR. BLUETHE — Most profound and systematic opposition from principle, or the "German thought of the aspiring minds of the German adopted population."

K. WACHENBERG — But did you not formerly say that "reforms, the correctness of whose principles could not be contested, must not be left to time to be inaugurated from so-called considerations of expediency?"

DR. BLUETHE — That was true in itself, and so far as one's bread-giver agreed with it, but not for things antagonistic to the considerations of expediency of the stomach.

K. WACHENBERG — So if at any time you say anything that is true it must be regarded as a mere phrase?