Let me tell you, Judge. What a person
achieves in real life is far greater than all your book wisdom. We
have too many lawyers anyway. It's one of our national
misfortunes.
FRAU LUND [merrily to Frau Beermann]. Look! He's beginning to
debate already.
BOLLAND [careless pose]. As you know, I run a soap factory where I
employ four hundred and sixty-two workmen ... let me repeat it,
four hundred and sixty-two workmen. Their livelihood and welfare
lies in the palm of my hand; don't you think that requires brains?
HAUSER. But ...
BOLLAND [interrupting]. Do you realize what the amount of detail
and the management of the whole factory means?
HAUSER. But friend Beermann never even worked in a soap factory.
How can that apply to him?
BEERMANN. Oh, what's the use of discussing things if you're
joking.
HAUSER. Really, I can't see the connection.
BEERMANN. At any rate, I'm a better candidate than the book-binder
whom the Socialists have put up against me.
BOLLAND. Beermann has had greater experience and has a broader
point of view.
FRAU LUND. Then there's something else I heard about Herr
Beermann, that I don't like at all.
BEERMANN. About me?
FRAU LUND. Yes, I bear that you are the President of the new
Society for the Suppression of Vice. What makes you do such
things? That isn't nice.
FRAU BEERMANN.
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