“Ladies and gentlemen,” continued Leo, smiling, “it really makes no difference whether one likes the Jews or not. The yeast that is used in the making of bread has a horrible taste--but bread cannot be made without it. We must look at the Jews in a similar light. Yeast--not very pleasant by itself, and harmful in excessive quantities--but indispensable, in the right proportion, for our daily bread. And I think your bread is refusing to rise for lack of yeast. “Now, however, is not the time for arguments or for crying over spilled milk, but for seeing what can be done about it. I don’t know what can be done in Austria. Were such a contingency to arise in France the people would insist on new elections, to show whether the country is satisfied with conditions as they are, or whether they should be changed.” With these words Leo left the platform, and quickly became lost in the crowd. The assembly, however, became fearfully excited. The words “new elections” had struck the human mass as a spark might strike a keg of dynamite; the huge auditorium shook, as thirty thousand throats shouted these words, which found their way out on the street and became the catch-word of the day. In the editorial offices of the _Arbeiter-Zeitung_ a conference of the chief editors and confidential agents of the party was held the next day; and for the first time in years it was resolved to inaugurate again an active, energetic political campaign, and to take this campaign out of the closed chamber and into the street. The editor-in-chief of the _Arbeiter-Zeitung_, a former pen-cutter, Wunderlich by name, who managed the heritage of Viktor Adler as best he could, made the following pronouncement: “We must adopt the slogan of this remarkable French painter, whose name cannot possibly be Diefress, as the idiotic chairman had it. Beginning right now we will voice incessantly a demand for new elections through our papers, assemblies, and councils. And now we will put to work our friends in France, Holland, Czechoslovakia, England, and America, and induce them to do their utmost to have large amounts of kronen thrown on the market. For if there is another appreciable fall of the krone, and another rise of the now stationary cost of living--then the time is ripe for us, and we will be able, if necessary, to use force to bring about the dissolution of the National Assembly.” CHAPTER XV. HERR LABERL TURNS