The first issue was all about William Morris, including his Socialistic career which united with his art, in that a workman could pursue the “creation of beauty as necessary as daily bread.”
To crown all, there was to be a donkey-race—that sublimest of all races, conducted on the grand socialistic idea of everybody encouraging everybody else's donkey, and the sorriest donkey winning.
It avoided all kinds of socialistic theories and attended strictly to the business of organizing unions for the purpose of increasing wages, shortening hours, and improving working conditions for its members.