Emery County Progress | 1906-02-24 | Page 2 | "Demagogue" Means Leader

demagogue means leader demagogue which means merely a leader of the people seems doomed ot attract an evil sene to itself in english dryden and swift used it in a good or neutral sense the latter applying it to demosthenes and cice ro and john richard green wrote enthusiastically of pym as the grand est of demagogues but the man ner in which it was used in the el kon basilike attributed to charles led milton to speak of it as a gob alln word and that is how it is ably used to day in its native greek its history was similar it could be applied to statesmen such as pericles but from being used by greek to characterize such popular leaders as the leather seller cleon it could eventually be defined by aristotle as flatterer of the democracy