The conversation was something like this:
"But, Mr. Over-Inspector of Railways, I do not think that you
understand rightly what Mr. Factory Director Spiegelberg says. Mr.
Factory Director also spins jute. To make concurrenz with Dundee
in Schottland, he must produce cheaply. To produce cheaply he must
become...no, obtain new machinery from Leeds in England. If that
machinery is duty-payable, Mr. Factory Director cannot produce so
cheaply. That seems to me clear. Once our German industries
established are, then we will see. That is another matter."
"I take the liberty to differ, Mr. Councillor of Commerce. How
then shall our German industries flourish, if they not protected
be? What for a doctrine is that? Mr. Factory Director Spiegelberg
thinks only of jute. Outside jute, the German world of commerce is
greater, and with in-the-near-future-to-be-given railways
facilities, vast and imposing shortly shall be."
"What Mr. Councillor of Commerce just has said, is true. You, Mr.
Over-Inspector of Railways, and also you, Mr. Ducal Supervisor of
Forests, are not merchants like us, but much-skilled specialists;
so is the point of view different, Mr.
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