STIRRING TIMES IN AUSTRIA
Wolf (indicating the President). "There sits a man to whom a certain title belongs!"
Unto Wolf, who is continuously reading, in a powerful voice, from a newspaper, arrive these per sonal remarks from the Majority: "Oh, shut your mouth!" "Put him out!" "Out with him!" Wolf stops reading a moment to shout at Dr. Lueger, who has the floor, but cannot get a hearing, "Please, Betrayer of the People, begin!"
Dr. Lueger. "Meine Herren " ["Oho!" and groans.]
Wolf. That s the holy light of the Christian Socialists!"
Mr. Kletzenbauer (Christian Socialist). "Dam nation! are you ever going to quiet down?"
Wolf discharges a galling remark at Mr. Wohl- meyer.
Wohlmeyer (responding). "You Jew, you!"
There is a moment s lull, and Dr. Lueger begins his speech. Graceful, handsome man, with winning manners and attractive bearing, a bright and easy speaker, and is said to know how to trim his political sails to catch any favoring wind that blows. He manages to say a few words, then the tempest over whelms him again.
Wolf stops reading his paper a moment to say a drastic thing about Lueger and his Christian-Social pieties, which sets the C. S. s in a sort of frenzy.
Mr. Vieloklawek. "You leave the Christian Social ists alone, you word-of -honor-breaker ! Obstruct all you want to, but you leave them alone! You ve no business in this House; you belong in a gin-mill!"
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