The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-09-12
THE BARTHoLp, STATUE

MI. Nye Talks About the Bronze Goddess
Whose Mission 1t Is to EnlIxhten the
World.
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 know what to do
with. He little dreamed that the time
would come when we would have
more liberty than we could paw for.
When Mr.. Henry sawed the air and
shouted for liberty or death, do not
believe that he knew that the time
would one day come when Liberty would
stand knee-deep in the mud of Bedloe's
Island and yearn for solid place tc
stand upon.
1t seems to me that we have too much
liberty In this country in some WAYS.
we have more liberty than we have
money. We guaratee that every man
in America shall fill himself up full of
liberty at our expense, and the less of
an American he is the more liberty he
can have. If he desires to enjoy him.
sell, all he needs is a slight foreign
accent and willingness to mix ND with
pohtics as soon as he can get his bag
gage oil the steamer. The more study
American institutions, the more regret
that was not born a foreigner, so that
could have something to say about the
management of our great land. IL
could not be a foreigner. l believe
would prefer to be Mormon or an
Indian not taxed.
l am often led to ask, in the language
OF the poet. us the Caucasian PLAYED
out?" Most everybody 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 he
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 MALI
and writes a book about rs before
breakfast wonders why we are always
in hurry. That is the reason we have
to throw our meals into ourselves with
a dull thud. and hardly have time to
maintain a warm personal friendship
with our families.
We do not care much for wealth, but
we must have freedom. and freedom |
costs money. We have advertised to |
furnish bunch of freedom to eyery |
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 beyond the seas say to us
4 some day the blue-eyed Mormon, with
MS heart full of love for our female
'eminaries and our old women's homes.
should land upon our coasts and find
hat we were using all the liberty our
,elves?
What do we want of liberty, anyhowY
What could we do with it if we had itp
I takes a man of leisure to enioy
liberty, and we have no leisure what
'ver. 1t is good thing to keep in the
louse for the use of guests only" but
We don't need it for ourselves.
Therefore, | am in favor of a statue
Il Liberty Enlightening the World, be-
ause it will show that we keep it on
ap winter and summer. We want the
Whole broad world to remember that
When it gets tired of oppression it can
ome here to America and Cypress us.
We are used to it, and we rather like
!. If we don't like it we can get on the
teamer and go abroad, where we NAV
isit the effete monarchies and have a
Ugh old time,
The sight of the Goddess of Liberty
landing there in New York Harbor
light and day. bathing her feet in the
ippling sea, will be good thing. 1t
Till be first-rate. 1t may also be pro-
uctive of good in direction that many
ave not thought Of As she stands
here. day after day, bathing her feet !
the broad Atlantic, perhaps some
Mormon moving toward the
ar West, confirmed victim of the mat
monial habit. may fix the bright pict-
re in his so-called mind, and remem-
ering how, on bis arrival in New York.
saw Liberty bathing her feet with ,,
npunity. he may be led in after years
try it on himself. -BiH Me-, in Bos.