The Gibson Upright by Booth Tarkington
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Gibson, in these few little answers. It is precisely what I want to get
at--the point of view! The point of view is all that is separating the classes from the masses to-day. And I think I have yours already. Now I want to go to the masses if you will permit me. GIBSON: Then you might as well stay here. MIFFLIN: Ah, but I want to hear the workers talk! GIBSON: Well, this is the best place for that! Some of them are waiting now just outside the door. I'll let you hear them. [_Goes to the factory door and opens it; two workingmen come in. One is elderly, with gray moustache and beard--_CARTER. _The other,_ FRANKEL, _is a Hebraic type, eager and nervous; younger._] GIBSON: What do you and Frankel want, Carter? CARTER [_moving his jaw from side to side, affecting to chew to gain confidence_]: Well, Mr. Gibson, to come down to plain words--there ain't no two best ways o' beatin' about the bush. GIBSON: I know that. CARTER: The question is just up to where there ain't no two best ways out of it. The men in our department is going to walk out to the last one, and if there was any way o' stoppin' it by argument I'd tell you. We're goin' out at twelve o'clock noon to-day, the whole forty-eight of us. |
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