The Nevada picayune., 1885-06-25
THE BRONZE GODDESS.
Bill Nye DiscOurses at Length Upon
 the Barth0ldi Statue.

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 1t 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 Mir. Henry sawed the air and shouted for liberty CT death, I do net believe that he knew that the time would come when Liberty would stand knee deep in the mud of Bedloe's Is- land and yearn for . solid place to stand upon.
 It seems to me that we have too much liberty in this country i'll some ways. We have more liberty than we have money. We guaran- tee 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 en- joy himself, all he needs is slight foreign accent and a willingness to mix up with politics as soon as he can get his baggage off the steam CT. The more I study the Ameri- can institutions the more l regret that 1 was not born foreigner, so that I could have something to say about the management of our great land. If I could not be a for eigner, I believe I would prefer to be Mormon or an Indian, not taxed.
 I am often led to ask, in the lan- guage of the poet, "[s the Cauoas' ian played outs' Most everybody can have a good deal of fun in this country except the American. He seems to be busy paying his taxes all the time that he has very little time to mingle in the giddy whirl of the alien. That.is the reason that l the alien who rides across the l United States on the 'limited mail,' and writes a book about US before break fast wonders why we are always in a hurry. That is the reason we have to throw our meals into ourselves with q dull thud, and hardly have time to maintain a warm personal friendship with our families.
 We do not care much for we alth but we must have freedom, and freedom costs money. We have advertised to furnish a bunch of freedom to every man, woman or l child who comea to our shores, and we are going to deliver the goods, whether we have any left for our selves or not. What would the great world beyond the seas say to us if some day the blue-eyed Mor- mon, with his heart full of love for female seminaries and our old wo- men s homes, should land upon our coasts and find that we are using all the liberty ourselves?
 What do we want of liberty, any. how. What could we do with it if we had itf It takes a man of leis- ure to enjoy liberty, and we have no leisure whatever. It is a good thing to keep in the house "for the iuse of guests oply," but we don't neeed it ourselves.
 Therefore, I am in favor Of Q Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, because it will show that we keep it on tap winter and sum- mer. We want the whole broad world 10 remember that when 1t gets tired of oppression it can come here to America and oppress us. We are used to it, and we rather like it. If we don't like il we can get on the steamer and gc abroad, where we may visit the ef' fete monarehies and have higl old time.
 The sight of the Goddess of Lib erty standing there ip New York harbor night and day, bathing her feet in the ripping sea, will be a good thing. It will be first-rate It may be productive of good in a l direction that many have mol
 thought of. As she stands there day after day bathing her feet in the broad Atlantic, perhaps some moss grown Mormon moving to,