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Major Barbara 189
Glory of God," the Glory of God which con
sists in
"
taking out the anger and bitterness
against the rich from the hearts of the poor," a
service
"
gratifying and convenient for all large
employers." No wonder the whisky distiller
Bodger makes the generous contribution of 5000
pounds and Undershaft adds his own little mite
of another 5000.
Barbara is indeed ignorant or she would not
protest against a fact so notorious:
Barbara. Do you know what my father is? Have
you forgotten that Lord Saxmundham is Bodger the
whisky man? Do you remember how we implored the
County Council to stop him from writing Bodger s
Whisky in letters of fire against the sky; so that the poor
drink-ruined creatures on the embankment could not
wake up from their snatches of sleep without being re
minded of their deadly thirst by that wicked sky sign ?
Do you know that the worst thing that I have had to
fight here is not the devil, but Bodger, Bodger, Bodger
with his whisky, his distilleries, and his tied houses?
Are you going to make our shelter another tied house, for
him, and ask me to keep it?
Undershaft. My dear Barbara: alcohol is a very
necessary article. It heals the sick ... It assists the
doctor: that is perhaps a less questionable way of put
ting it. It makes life bearable to millions of people who
could not endure their existence if they were quite sober.
It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night
that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
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