The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-04
MISUSE or MONEY


While there are thousands of foolish
spendthrilts around us and everywhere
who make some very reprehensible DISPOSE
ton of their means. and often, indeed, other
folks good and lawful money as well, We do
not care to read them what might be termed
very properly a moral lecture, and sub
iect us to the criticism of interfering with
somebody else's business, but we do desire
to oller few suggestions relative to the
outlay of many large sums of money
which the public has furnished upon
request, and which has been vari-
ousy applied, Our attention has
been called to this matter at this
time particularly by the appeal from New
York City for $4,000 for the purpose Of
buildinga pedestal inNew York harbor upon
which to place the great Bartholdi Statue
of Liberty which France designs presenting
to the United States The statue itself is
to cost $4,000, and we are to have it seems,
by this movement, half million good
round dollars piled up in the bay of New
York City for the half million poor,paupers
OF that metropolis and Brooklyn to look
at and admire, and remain hungry and
lily clothed while so doing 1t is
a right enough that our cities should be
adorned with statuary and works Of art
and beautiiied to as great an extent as pos
sibIe, but such steps should only be taken
and work inaugurated when it can be done
without neglecting more useful measures,
and upon which, indeed. the health and
comfort OF the citizens depend. Before We
begin to cultivate the ideas of the sublime
aud beautiful, aud feed the soul, we should
look to 1t that the useful and physical have
the proper care aad attention. NJ. Bar.
tholdi's statue, as it rises 800 feet
rom the surface of the waters
of New York harbor will be
very imposing squire indeed, and will i'm.
press all behoders doubtless with new SEN
sations fthe matchlessness and beauty and
utility of Liberty itself, as well as the great
ness of the work before them, but it will be-
Of very little practical value after all. Yet
The committees, Of which the Hon. VIM. NJ.
Evarts is the head, declare their ability to
raise the desired sum for the pedestal, even
IN the city itself. And this in the face of
the fact that New York is in n
Iilthier and more sickly cond.
ton this winter than it has
been for years and the cry has gone up that
there were not sufficient funds or appropri
atoms to handle the needed labor, and il
was impossible, or almost so, to obtain if
But million people must be subjected 10
the danger of a pCstilence, and thousands
must lie down and die while the Statue OF
Liberty goes up in the harbor. And so it is
to-day in nearly every section of the Union
The most needed and imperative measures
for the comfort and improvement Of the
and, indeed, actual safety
OF the populacc, are left to
Ianguish for want of means, while
thousands of dollars are thrown away upon
the Injuries of the public. fan individual
should purchase jewelry and suffer for
clothing and bread, we would call him in
sane; buff the same thing is done by COM
mttees and municipalities, through the for
mallIy and eminent Responsibility of a COM
mittec, it seems to he just the thing What
ought to be done first is to place the town
or city or locality in clean, healthy. pros
porous condition, with the poor cared for
and the charities looked after, and then, III
desirable, and only then, the adomments
and luXuries may be added.