New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-27


The Jitney Philosophers; Nickel Platonsm
" ON INDEPENDENT THINKING
Socrates, NARRATOR OF THE Ola
LoGUE; DOgmatkos WRITER FOR THE SCROLL;
AND Astigraatikos, THE TABLET
Your toga is wet, Dogmatikos and water is drip
ping from your hat. Is it raining Dogmatkos?
Why as to that, Socrates do not know 1t may be
raining and then again it may not be. am not versed
in meteorOlogy
And what have YOU been writing all afternoon, that
it may be published in tomorrow's Evening Scroll?
i have been composing philippe against the vacl-
atng policies of Perces and eXcoriatng his recent ut
upon the matter of among all the nations
Are you then, opposed to vaciation and to peace?
Il am Socrates as all red-blooded men must be- And
my papyrus "The Evening Scroll is as redblooded pal
adum of liberty as ever managed get the contract for
the Corinth County printing
What have you inscribed against Pericles?
Why, Socrates, you should not have to ask that
If | asked only that which had to ask, Dogmatl-
kos these cooquies would occupy any space al ALL
Do you make me?
You are as transparent as a man about to ask, in
studiedy casual way, for a loan, Socrates
i said among many other things Dogmatkos con-
tnued that Perces unasked had mounted the rostrum
TO tell other nations what they ought to do and what they
ought to have that he is porOon that he tries to adj
wise the Phoencans and the EthOpans yet makes no at
empt to stop the fights Ahenan Streets that
fine words are we'll enough but they cook no pasnps Tor
the starving armies; that Percess policy is un-Helenc
and directly at variance with the mehonored doctrine OF
Lysander and the spirit of the Peoponnesan minute-mer
And said further that the Hellenic people had no one to
blame but themselves for "The Evening Scroll advised
them last November to vote against this vaciating and
ddactic Perices.
But it, said Socrates, he has courage to mount the
rostrum knowing in advance that he to be eXcoriaed
think YOU not he is of some valor?
Il do not
And why not?
Because he is Pericles and he is believed by "The
Evening Scroll to be possessed of no valor soever
Now here is Astigmatkos of 'The Morning Tablet
You are drenched, AstgmatikOs. Is it raining?
i do not know, Socrates 1t may be raining and 1t
may not be. | am meteorologist.
What have you been writing?
Oh Socrates have been praising, OF, as the head
ne-wrers say audng Perces for his wondrous express
sion about peace and his dvney inspired speeches on the
duties of the warning nations
And do you deem that his every word is wonderful,
and that he is incapable of error?
i do
And why do you think these things?
Because he is Pericles.
You are violently in favour of Pericles Astigmati-
kos and you, Dogmatkos are unchangeaby opposed to
everything he may think or do or say
We are said Astigmatkos and Dogmatlkos
And you are both versed in the arts and sciences of
diplomacy and law and politics and polemics?
Nay not.
You are both drenched yet when ask you whether
it is raining You tell that as you are IMMERSED IN
meteorology, you do not know.
But Socrates. meteorology has nothing to do with
the policy of "The Evening Scroll" nor yet with that OF
THE Morning Tablet"
All then said Socrates, Godbergas saith, L
never thought of that By Zeus is not the possession OF
knowledge which endows with the sense to come in
ont Of the rainis it not as Briggonikos saith grand
and glorious feen'? Ta-ta-tya-tya!
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