Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1885-06-25
LIBERTY eNLIGHTeNING THE WORLD.
Bill Nye Talks About the Bronze God
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When Patrick Henry put his old cast-iron
spectacles back on the top of his head and
whooped for liberty, he did not know that
some day we would have more Of it than we
knew what to do with. He little dreamed
that the time would come when we would
have more liberty than We could pay for
When Mr.. Henry sawed the air and shouted
for liberty or death. do not believe that
he knew the time would one day come when
Liberty would stand knee deep in the mud Of
Bedloe's Island ard vearn for a solid place
TO stand upon.
II seems TO me that We have too much lib
erty in this country in some ways. We have
more liberty than We have money. We
guarantee that every man in America shall
fill himself up full of liberty at our expense,
and the less OF an American be is the more
liberty he can have. If he desires To enjoy
himself. all he needs is slight foreign ac-
cent and a willingness To mix up with pol
itics as soon as DE caa get his baggage off
the steamer The more l study American
institutions the more | regret that was not
born a foreigner, so that 1 could have some
thing To say about the management of our
great land. II could not be foreigner, |
believe ! would prefer to be- a Mormon or an
Indian not taxed.
/ am often led 10 ask, in the language Of
the poet, - the Caucasian PLAYED outF
Most every body can have a good deal of fun
in this country except the American. He
seems TO be so busy paying his taxes all the
time that be has very little time to mingle
in the giddy whirl with the alien. That is
the reason that the alien who rides across
the United States ON the Limited Mail"
and writes a book about US before break
fast wonders why we are always i'm hurry.
That is the reason we have TO throw our
meals into ourselves with dull thud, and
hardly have time TO maintain a warm per
sonal friendship with our families.
We 30 no. care much for wealth, but we
must lave freedom, and freedom costs
money. We have advertised 10 furnish n
bunch Of freedom 10 every man. woman
or child who comes TO our shores and we
are going To deliver the goods, whether we
have any left for ourselves or not What
would the great world beyol,. the seas say
TO us if some day the blu .,-eyed Mormon.
with his heart full OF love for our female
Seminaries and our old wOmen's homes
should land upon our coasts and find that
we were using all the liberty ourselvesi
What do we want of liberty anyhowi
Whist could we do with il if We had iti 1t
takes man Of leisure to enjoy liberty, and
We have no leisure whatever Ii is good
thing TO keep in the house "for the use Of
guests only" hut We don't need Il for our
selves
Therefore, j am in favor Of statue of
Liberty Enhghtening the World, because it
will show that we keep il ON tap winter and
summer. We want the whole broad world
to remember that when it gets tired of op-
preston il can come here to America and
oppress Us. We are used to il, and we rather
like it. II we don't like it, We can get ON the
steamer and go abroad. where we may visit
the effete monarchieS and have a high old
time.
The sight Of the Goddess of Liberty stand
ing there in New York harbor night and
day, bathing her feet in the ripping sea,
will be good thing. 1t will be first
rate. 1t may also be productive of
good in a direction that many have
not thought Of As she stands there,
day after day, bathing her feet in the broad
Atlantic, perhaps some moss-grown Mormon
moving toward the far west, a confirmed
victim of the matrimonial habit, may fix the
bright picture in his so-calei mind and re.
membering how, ON his arrival in New York,
he saw Liberty bathing her feet with impun-
himself. BILL NYE.
HUDSON, Wis, May %.