market prices. Teachers are given higher salaries and civil
servants will have better pensions. Widows and orphans will
receive generous assistance from the State.
Trade will be
promoted. The tariff will be lowered and even the taxes, though
they cannot be entirely abolished, will be almost abolished. It
sometimes happens that one section of the public is forgotten or
that one of the demands mooted among the public has not
reached the ears of the party. This is also hurriedly patched on to
the whole, should there be any space available for it: until finally
it is felt that there are good grounds for hoping that the whole
normal host of philistines, including their wives, will have their
anxieties laid to rest and will beam with satisfaction once again.
And so, internally armed with faith in the goodness of God and
the impenetrable stupidity of the electorate, the struggle for what
is called 'the reconstruction of the Reich' can now begin.
When the election day is over and the parliamentarians have held
their last public meeting for the next five years, when they can
leave their job of getting the populace to toe the line and can now
devote themselves to higher and more pleasing tasks – then the
programme committee is dissolved
and the struggle for the
progressive reorganization of public affairs becomes once again a
business of earning one's daily bread, which for the
parliamentarians means merely the attendance that is required in
order to be able to draw their daily remunerations. Morning after
morning the honourable deputy wends his way to the House, and
though he may not enter the Chamber itself he gets at least as far
as the front hall, where he will find the register on which the
names of the deputies in attendance have to be inscribed. As a
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