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?
