PLATO GALLED IN JUDGMENT.
An apposite dictum of Pluto is quoted by Sir Frederick Treves in a letter to the London "Times" in reference to the Bolshevik movement abroad, and the proposal to use an industrial strike for political ends at home. Plato " asserts that an oligarchy gives place to a democracy, and that a democracy is, in process of time, replaced by a tyranny. An insatiable desire of riches and the neglect of other things, he says, (lest royctk oligarchy; while an insatiable desire of liberty and the neglect of other things destroyeth in its Him, the democracy.''
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Northern Advocate, 25 September 1919, Page 1
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99PLATO GALLED IN JUDGMENT. Northern Advocate, 25 September 1919, Page 1
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