House iff Carden 
soon see that the statue will act like a tonic 
on the entire neighborhood. If you wish to 
elevate your slums, put in a tew life-giving 
statues, and see that they are well kept and 
you will see them work wonders. This has 
been frequently done in Paris—that best 
governed city in the world. 
H ence nothing is more shortsighted and 
stupid, from a mere business point of view, 
than to cry “ ex- 
travagance! ” 
when a city 
governme nt 
spends money 
for statuary. 
The annual out¬ 
lay of New York 
city now is about 
$ I 00,000,000. 
J ust two years 
ago the city 
government 
put up a new 
marble building 
for the Court of 
Appeals. It is 
the finest special 
Court House, 
perhaps, in the 
world and an 
honor to New 
York city. 
$180,000 was 
spent for the 
statuary — a 
mere bagatelle ! 
Yet a certain 
number of 
foolish dema¬ 
gogues howled 
about spending 
so much money for art when there were 
so many poor about, not knowing that 
the more money you give to the poor the 
poorer you make them, and the more 
money you make circulate by giving the 
poor work in making statues as well as 
sewers, the richer you make them. 
In the days of Augustus, thirty years 
before Christ, there were more than 5,000 
statues in Rome. These did not save Rome 
from destruction. The Almighty could not 
save a civilization based on cruelty and in¬ 
justice. But 1 feel convinced it was the art 
of Rome that was largely responsible for 
making Rome die so slowly. To prove 
this, however, would require a volume, 
and we must pass it by. Do you know 
why Bismarck did not shoot Paris to 
pieces during the siege in 1870? Because 
he knew the world would never forgive 
him for destroying so much beauty. The 
art of Paris 
thus became its 
savior, and the 
money spent in 
beautifying Par¬ 
is thus became 
the heaviest 
paying invest¬ 
ment ever made 
in history. 
I n every street 
of your city 
there ought to 
be a monument 
every half mile 
apart a n d a 
square about 
each monument 
and fountains 
and flowers in 
each square. 
There ought 
to be statues 
around your 
public buildings, 
hotels and even 
your factories, 
in your squares 
and in your 
parks, every¬ 
where, of all 
kinds— portrait, 
ideal, allegorical, historical, etc. And if 
you spend one or two millions for statues 
in Boston during the next ten years you 
will enhance the total value of your city 
by ten times as much—simply in brutal 
dollars. Remember that a fine work of 
art is immortal, and an everlasting money¬ 
making asset to the city that possesses 
it. Italy to-day practically lives off of the 
art it created three and five hundred years 
ago. 
And need 1 speak of the second effect of 
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