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36 Henrik Ibsen
there is the press, that is the medium for his
purpose! The staff of the People s Messenger
Hovstad, Billings, and Aslaksen, are deeply
impressed by the Doctor s discovery. With one
eye to good copy and the other to the political
chances, they immediately put the People s Mes
senger at the disposal of Thomas Stockmann.
Hovstad sees great possibilities for a thorough
radical reform of the whole life of the commun
ity.
Hovstad. To you, as a doctor and a man of science,
this business of the water-works in an isolated affair.
I fancy it hasn t occurred to you that a good many other
things are connected with it. ... The swamp our whole
municipal life stands and rots in. ... I think a journal
ist assumes an immense responsibility when he neglects
an opportunity of aiding the masses, the poor, the op
pressed. I know well enough that the upper classes will
call this stirring up the people, and so forth, but they can
do as they please, if only my conscience is clear.
Aslaksen, printer of the People s Messenger,
chairman of the Householders Association, and
agent for the Moderation Society, has, like Hov
stad, a keen eye to business. He assures the
Doctor of his whole-hearted cooperation, espe
cially emphasizing that,
"
It might do you no harm
to have us middle-class men at your back. We
now form a compact majority in the town
when we really make up our minds to. And it s
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