opinion for him?

STREET-PAVER. First, the customers; then the burgomaster, money,
and power.

PEHR. Then why did he caricature you?

STREET-PAVER. Because I entered into your proposition. As a matter
of course, I did it because I could make money by it. Meantime, he
is selling hundreds of these poems to-day--[Trumpets and drum
sound; Burgomaster, Councilmen and Clerks come out into speakers'
cage.]

BURGOMASTER. Well, my children, you must have heard that an
impostor has come to town.

ONE OF THE PEOPLE. He's no impostor; he is a reformer.

BURGOMASTER. It comes to the same thing--but you must hold your
tongue, my lad, you have no vote!

PEHR. Herr Burgomaster, I would beg that my proposition be
presented in a proper manner before this honored popular assembly--

BURGOMASTER. Just listen to him! We know his proposition and it
simply remains for us to express ourselves. Well and good, I
consign it to the madhouse! It is the man's wish--think of it, my
children! that all may be permitted to tread upon smooth pavements.
So long as Our Lord creates different kinds of human beings, there
must be different kinds of stones on our streets. Is there anybody