State Parks of Wisconsin 



When it shall be found that the influence of uncommon and char- 

 acteristic natural beauty is other than wholesome, healthful and re- 

 creating to the people, then it will be time enough for economists to 

 assert that money had better be spent on hospitals, reformatories and 

 penitentiaries instead of for that which makes those institutions, be- 

 neficent as they are, less populous. Meanwhile, no man who be- 

 lieves the object of the government to be that of providing for the 

 happiness of the governed can successfully maintain that it is not 

 proper for a state to guard the health and the happiness of its citizens, 

 as well as to attempt to restore that health and happiness which have 

 been lost in the work of the world. 



Yours truly, 



J. Horace McFarland, 



President. 

 To Mr. John Nolen, 



1 382 Harvard Square, 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



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