DISTINCTLY THE LAST WORD

The etymological mantle of Theodore Roosevelt, which has long flapped vainly in the air, has at last descended on a successor, who will carry on the work of coining scorching phrases. There is a distinct reminiscence of "Byzantine logathete" and "malefactors of great wealth" in the most recent explosions of Charles G. Dawes. Mr. Dawes has lately been calling everyone who disagrees with him a "peewit plutogog". "Peewit" is merely a polite euphemism, but "plutogog" is evidently of sterner metal. It is obviously compounded of equal parts of "plutocrat" and "demagogue"--doubtless of the baser elements which these two words connote.

As an epithet, "plutogog" has few equals. It supercedes the seductiveness of a sibilant with the harshness of a Greek compound. It is a word which will positively drive the bill-collector and the wolf from the door, and reinforced by "peewit", may even stave off the landlord for another month. Away, plutogogs!