The Sherman Statue The National Sculpture Society has replied to the Sherman Statue Committee of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee in regard to the criticism by the Committee that the National Sculpture Society did not protest until after the award for the statue had been made to Mr. Rohl-Smith. Mr. Ward says that that is true. The National Society was in entire ignorance of what had taken place in the Committee after the decision of the committee of experts had been given until the announcement of the successful artist's name was made public. As soon as this was known the Society made its protest. Mr. Ward calls attention to the fact that $80,000 of public money, money that belongs to the people of the United States, is to be expended on this statue, and that the National Sculpture Society wishes to call the attention of the people to the way in which their money is used. Mr. Ward says: "The question is whether, by trusting to your own, in neglect of more competent because more instructed, judgment, you have undertaken to misspend this public money by directing the expenditure of it upon a less worthy work of art than might have been obtained for it." That is the controversy in a nutshell. The qualifications which would make a man a good general would not necessarily make him a competent judge of art. Mr. Ward says: "It is a question whether the training and experience that confer authority in every profession and in every trade shall confer authority in the choice of public works of art, to be paid for with public money. This is the question upon which we have notified you that we should appeal to the public." The method of appeal adopted by the National Sculpture Society is to request the competing artists to put their models on public exhibit, not only in the city of New York, but, as far as practicable, in other cities, in order that the people who have contributed the money may have the opportunity, so far as their education permits, to judge of the merits of the work selected, and also that these models may be made the occasion for educating the people to the value of an art not so highly appreciated in this country as it should be. All the artists, with the exception of the successful competitor, have agreed to meet the request of the National Sculpture Society. Mr. Rohl-Smith doubts his ability to meet the wishes of the Society, because of illness and his absence from the country until autumn. 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