Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-08-03

Two Kinds OF There are moro
| Socialism binds of social
Here Defined. ism than one.
| There Is a social
Ism as old. perhaps, as the philosophy
| OF Greece, certainly as SIR Thomas
Moore, which looks for reconstitu-
tion OF society leveling OF the
mournful inequalities of the human
lot and the creation of an ideal COM
monwealth on principles truly frater-
| nal. This is q vision of the future.
there is another socialism which is
neither visionary nor OF the future.
put present aim, thoroughly prao-
tical; and though perhaps natural.
hardly to be called fraternai 1t is
uhe growing, disposition of the class
which has the most votes but Ia the
least wealthy to use the political pow
er, or It's possession of which IL has
become conscious for the purpose of
transferring wealth from the other
ciasses to itself. This Is the natural
oHspring of an age of universal fer
ments. growing dislike of manual la
Dor, and thirst of enjoyment. with uni
Versal suffrage OF collision with So
clnlism of the first kind there is little
sanger, except when 1t goes mad and
with socialism of the second class
there cannot fail to be IL property OBJ
Jects to forcible transfer. The term
socialism, however, Is applied to move
ments In which there Is nothing So
cia.lsuc or In any way noyel. such as
telegraphs, which would be socialists
only II 1t were to be brought about by
Observation-Disclosures Smith.
Maeterlinck One of the very few
Set to Music living COMPOSERS
ny Debnssy. who may be said to
have a new and
absolute individual message. and
whose influence Is growing more ner-
vasive with every year that passes. IL
Ciaude Debussy. Unlike that other
Moriu-storming genius, Richard
strauss, who has triumphed through
the sheer magic of his technic and
the overwhelming vitality OF his mu-
steal inspiration. Debussy Is a dream
er, shrinking from reality and cling
ing to the shadows and the half
lights. He has been called the Maeter-
hnck of music. and the comparison ia
eIlireiy appropriate. 1t may be said
or him. as of the Belgian mystic. that
his muse is illumined by a light that
never was on sea or land" He
recognizes the kinship himself and
has chosen to set Maeterlincks noetlc
drama. "Pelleas and Melisande," to
wondrous music-Current Literature.
sees beauty 1T is to Frenchmen
In Features that is due the credit
or Lincoln. of first seeing the
beauty of the life
mask, of appreciating 1t and describ-
Ing 1t. When / took a plaster copy. In
1877. to the oldest Paris bronze-found-
err to get 1t cast in bronze / put 1t
down on a table side bv side with a
mask of the Able Lamenais. The first
words OF the founder were. What a
beautiful face! Why, It's more beau
tifnl and has more character than the
Abbe's. and we think that is the hand
soonest one In France! What an ex-
traordinary construction, and what
fine forms it hast Then he asked who
II was, and added, shall take pleas
ure In showing 1t to So-and- So,'-
naming several OF the principal sculp-
tors in Paris for whom he did work.
F'remiet was particularly, interested. He
said, among other things: 1T seems
impossible that a new country like
yours should produce such a face. 1t
is unique Then he asked. DO you
know anything about the physique of
this man? He must have been tall
and slim, having little flesh, and very
alert in action AS was then making
some sketches of a statuette. based
upon very little knowledge of Lincoln's
physical appearance, Fremiet's sugges-
tions were of great value, as / knew
him to be learned ethnoIogist He