ABSTRACT
All Socialists have some reaction in common. But the initial approach is varied. William Morris was a Socialist because he was an artist. Morris' approach to Socialism was the artist's approach. Many Christians who would be Socialists are frightened because many Socialists are materialists. The Socialist Party proposed, without violence, quite lawfully, by the ballot, to tax away the preposterous aggregations of money and power. The object was such a society as Christians precept could be practiced in; even Christians admit that it is impossible under present conditions to carry out the teachings of Christ. Socialism offered any effective method to put down the mighty from their seats and to exalt the humble and meek; to fill the hungry with good things and to send the rich if not quite "empty away", at least relieved of some of their unnecessary and arrogant fullness.
