The sun., 1910-06-28

And socialists Are Net OppoSed to Art
ana me Classics.


To rHE EDIToR or Tine srN-Sir: Two
serious charges against the socialists have
been made By r. . y IN INN SCN-hFes'
that the socialists cannot agree upon po-
litiCal doctrine and secondly. that they
all hate Latin and Greek education. ne
says further They are united only IN
their opposition 10 ClaSsicRl culture They
talk of art and personal Improvement. yet
they condemn the sOuvce and means OF
humAnism The nrst charge Ia my esti-
nation h by far the more serious. there
. fore shall try tO answer It tlrst
| Socialism is not q political doctrine
Socialism In ~ hnal analysts h a principle
/ that staRdo Gsr economic ami social justine
! In different countries different methods are
used to bring about a society based on this
/ principle Wherever there Ia political Tree
dom II is used a. a means by the socialists
10 further their ends. but does not oonsti'
| tuts in itself the end. Wherever there Ia no
! political freedom other ends must he found
to make the advancement Of the soclalis'
principle possible Therefore sociallNm can
not be regarded A. a hxed political doc
/ trine, bat A. a principle which " hrNush'
about through whatever method wall always
! hs the same Although iiH forms may vAVy,
7 itS basic principle would be unchanged.
II. however. BY saying that, the socialists
/ cannot agree upon political doctrine b. j.
! r. means that there Is a good deal Of dis
agreement among the socialists concerning
/ party tactics. agree with him; but how can
any one call party tactics a political doc
trine? Tactics are merely the tools with
which We can bring our principles or doc
trines into eject. There always have neen
! and no doubt always will be disAEr cement :
| FOR The attainment Of the object In view,
| Every one will try 10 bring up his plan OF &C.
| ton, and u he has any intuition OF hitiatlye
he will try TO frame up something indtsiduai-
istic. There would consequently appear 4
variety Sf Opinions. aud all that the party
/ OF whatever h IL could do would De 70 vote
upon the best suggestions. and whatever the
result this could he taken a. q consensus
Of the popular opinion That Is Ifoc''e'y
/ The other charge, hut they all hate l.Aun
I and Greek education also deserves some
. httie ConsIderauOh let us ind out nfSt
whether this assertion II a fact or not. DO
/ not desire 10 have Il seem that think my
I opponent has either wilfully mi.Fepre-ented
I us OF even that he IL ignorant. tie may have
/ hsen mistaken because OF surface indica-
| tons. which may have been the cause ol
/ misleading him into this belief but the fact
| i that such seems 20 he the case when not
/ viewed carefully OF studied deeply, There
| fore there Il some excuse In this case. The
b socialists are universally agreed that educa.
4 ton and art tand on this my opponent and
! | quite agree. as he distinctly stated are
| greatly Oenehting and absolutely nece--
. sArv TO the true happiness Of the human
I race Nov What are the socialists really
attacking We say that those professor
and educators Who are teaching the iaAtul
/ and Greek classics are not touching any vital
| point IA the lives of the masses.
lt Is absolutely useless to Try ~ eajsy AZ
, Only those who have the leisure time ana
wealth can really enjoy art The socialists
I are mep~iy endeavOTing 10 remove the-e
rondition~ which letter true art. When they
D sometimes attack some mOralist or tearhef
+ Of classic, u Is herause these people are
, attempting the impossible by preaching
morals or art while u IA really Impossible "a
attain thee thing in a world Of economic IN
. u-ttoa and 10 make natter wore they Try
. 'l ignore the economic problem altogether
q The -ociali.tz have never attacked either
art or the claszirs u don mean some one
: 0r two, but the mas-l. but they have attacked
many philanthropists and norallsts iOr Try
iuC % talk art 10 starving men. Nhen the
-u-iali-t- attacked Carnegie Nhen ~ he'
-tOved couple OF Libraries on WorkinEinen
whom h. had legally robbed u Nas 10 -hON
| up the hypocrisy Oi trying 10 educate People
Who trsi of all needed iOod IN We ca-e
uf tho plas-ce II was IN show tho tutihty Of
linking ART In A World uf economic injustice,
weanwhile ignoring completely the economic
problem IN the surface ~ ] have already
shown DO would seem that Ne are ATTACKING
art anl ne rlassicS while on the contrary
We are merely rehuktng Few impos,l Olllst-
NV NNnN. Nuuf III LOUIS WIZ.