Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-20
THE BARTHOLDI STATUE.
Bill Nye Talks FIuently About the
Bronze Goddess.


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
pay 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 to stand upon.
1t 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 he is
the more liberty he can have If he de-
| sires TO enjoy himself. all he needs is a
slight foreign accent and q Willingness to
mix up with politics as soon as he can get
| his baggage off the steamer The more
| study American institutions the more | re-
greet that | was not born a foreigner, so
| that could have something TO say about
| the management of our great land. If
could not be foreigner, believe l would
prefer to he a Mormon or an Indian not
| taxed
l am often led to ask, in the language of
| the poet is the Caucasian played out p
| Most everybody can have good deal OF
fun in the country except an American.
He seems TO be so busy paving 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
Mail and writes book about us before
breakfast wonders why we are always III a
hurry. That is the reason we have to
throw our meals into ourselves with dull
thud, and hardly have time to maintain a
warm personal friendship with our own
families.
We do not care much for wealth, but we
must have freedom, and freedom costs
money. We have advertised 10 furnish q
! bunch Of freedom to every man, woman or
| child who comes TO our shores, ana 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 if some day the blue-eyed Mormon
with his heart full of love for Cur female
seminaries and our old woman's homes
should land upon our coasts and find that
we were using all the liberty ourselves?
| What do We want OF liberty, anyhow
| What could we do with it if we had il? II
| takes a man OF leisure to enjoy liberty, and
!, VIZ nave IiO ltlSGIC HilSiNCN II 40 q E-tpti
thing to keep in the house for the use OF
guests only, but we don't need it for our
selves.
| Therefore, l am in favor of statue OF
Liberty Enlightening the World, because ii
| will show that we keep it on tap winter
and summer. We want the whole broad
i world to remember that when it gets tired
of oppression it can come here to America
and Cypress us. We are used to it, and we
rather like it. If 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
standing there in New Y ork 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, confirmed victim of the
matrimonial habit, may fix the bright
| picture in his so-called mind, and remem-
boring how, on his arrival in New York,
he saw liberty bathing her feet with i'm
punity, he may be led in after years to try
| il on himself BILL NYE,