The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-06-04
LIBERTY ENLIGHTENlNG
THE WORLD
Bill Nyc Talks About the Bronze
Goddess.

BILL wye talks ABOUT tine BrOnzl
Goddess.
toriginaLl
When Patrick Henry put his old
cast-iron spectacIes back on the tor
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 Ne
would have more liberty than we
could pay for. Mr.. Henry sawed
the air and shouted for liberty or
death. I do not believe that he
knew the time NO uld one day come
when Liberty wou Id stand knee deep
In the mud Of Be does Island and
yearn for solid place to stand,up-
on.
It seems to me that We have too
much liberty 10 this country In some
ways. We have more liberty than
We have money. We guarantee that
every man In merica shall Ill him
self up full Of liberty at our expe nse,
and the less OF an American he Is the
more liberty he can have. II he
desires to enjoy himself, all he needs
is slight foreign accent and will
lingness to mix up with politics as
soon as he can get his baggage OF
the steamer. The more I study
American institutions the more /
regret that I was not born o foreigner,
50 that / could have something to
say about the management or our
great land. IL / could not be for
eigner 1 believe / would prefer to
be Mormon or an Indian not taxed.
/ am often led to ask, Ii the Ian
guage Of the poet. us the eau
casian played outr. Most everybody
can have good deal Of fun ID this
country except the American. He
seems to be 50 busy paying his taxes
all the time that hc has vary little
time to mingle In the giddY Whirl
with tho alien. That is the reason
that the alien who rides across the
United States on the Limited Mail'
and writes q book about us before
breakfast wonders why we are al
ways In hurry. That Is the reason
we have to throw our meals into
ourselves with dull thud. and hard
ly have time to maintain q warm
personal friendship with our fami-
lies.
We do not care much for wealth,
but we must have freedom, and
freedom costs money. We have ad-
vertised to furnish = bunch OF tree
dom to every man. woman or child
who comes to our shores, and We are
going to deliver our goods, whether
We have any left for ourselves or
not. What would the great wor Id
beyond the sea say to US II some day
the blue.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 0urselvesl
What do we want Of liberty any.
howl What could we do with It II we
had It? It takes o man OF leisure to
enjoy liberty, and we have no lois-
ure whatever. It Is q good thing
to keep In the house ssfor the use Of
guests only, "but we don't need 1t
for ourselves.
Therefore, ] am in favor Of Z stat.
ue Of Liberty Enlightening tho World,
because It will ahow that We keep IL
on tap winter and summer. We
want the whole broad world to ne.
member that when It gets tired Of
oppression 1t can come here to
America and Cypress us. We are
used to it, and we rather like it. II
we don't like 1t, 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 Liber-
ty standing there In New York har-
hor night and day, bathing her feet
IN the ripping sea, will be good
thing. 1t will be flrstrate. It may
also be productive Of good " . d.
rection that many ha~.. not thoncht
o.. AS sne s.s-..nds there, day after
oay. ....ning her feet In the broad
Atlantic, perhaps some moss-grown
Mormon moving toward the the Tar
west, confirmed victim OF the mat
rimonial habit, may FIX the bright
picture in his So called mind, and
remembering how. on his arrival Id
New York, he saw Liberty bathing
her feet with impunity, he may be
led in after years to try it on him.
self. BILL NYE.
Hudson, Wis, May 90.