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Show Art and Socialism. I hir.igo Npwh. line of the contributors toauiirent maga-zine maga-zine is explaining to adivcrted public "wliy moat artists arc socialist?." The contributor points ki the ease of Mr. William Morris. who is a poet, as may be seen by the inspiring wallpape r he manufacture-, aud toasllghtly known Knglish painter and toa great realistic I Kus.ian novelet. These men are socialists in theory, as the present writer notices, though it must he admitted ad-mitted that they do not compose anything Like a majority of the world's artists. More- j over, they contlne their lacialiam to their theorizing and do not get it raised up with I I their incites or pencils. They are artists, i not because tin y are socialists, but because they make lino pictures, poems or novels. Political economy is a good thing, but the ; in t wiio spills siime of it into his inkstand Leases to write poetry, lie writes versified tariff editorials'. j I I. e an -wer to ihe queatloo, " Why are most oitlsts socialist :" ia: "They are not." j |