Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-13
ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD.
Bill Nye Talks 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 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 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 and yearn for a
solid place to 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 guarantee that every man in Amer
lea shall fill himself up full of liberty at
our expense, and the less of an American
he is the more liberty he can have. Ii
If he desires to enjoy himself, all he
needs to have is a slight foreign accent
and a willingness to mix up in politics as
soon as he gets his baggage off the
steamer. The more / study American
institutions the more l regret that l was
not born foreigner, so that | could have
something to say about the management
of our great land. II | could not be a
foreigner, believe | would prefer to be a
Mormon or an Indian not taxed.
| am often led to ask, in the language
of the poet, els the Caucasian played
out 2" Most everybody can have a good
deal of fun in this country except the
American. He seems to be SO busy pay
ing his taxes all the time that he has very
little time to mingle in the glddy whlrl
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 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 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 a
/ bnnch of freedom to every man, woman
or child who comes to our shores, and we
are Going TO deliver the goods, whether
we have anv left for ourselves or not.
WHIT would the great world beyond the
eeas saw to us if some day the bIue-eyed
| Mormon. with his heart full OF love LOT
our female seminarles ana our olu
women's homes, should land upon, our
coast and find that we were using all Iile
! liberty ourselves? I .
What do we want Of liberty any9oM! " ?
What could we do with it if we had II
/ II takes a man of leisure to ENJOY lUGI ,
and we have no leisure whatever, ~ ~, 70
a good thing to keep in the mouse lon i'i =
use of guests only" but we don ieeu II
! for ourselves.
Therefore, am in favor ct a statue i,,S =,
T ;hartv EnIightening the World, because
If will show that we keep 1t on tap VIII hnod
and SIMMER. We want the whole Oroa tI
,Torld 70 remember that when IL getS
tired of oppression it can come mere 80 ~
America and Cypress us: We are usea
a. ~ n D we rather like it. If we don
iilse If. we can get on the steamer anu e. =
nhroad where we may visit the eleUe
monarchies and have high old tlme'
The sight of the Goddess OF NDe :t,
oto nj there in New York harbor n, ,l
S sra day1 bathing her feet in the rlpPilns
anu aoo Iii he a good thing. twill pe llrstl
rate. 1t may also be productive we IL tbogggbt
in a direction that many nave nov 'st 1,ro J9v,
az az As She stands there, day atteT uay
Iatbinc her feet in the broad Atla ,,o,,,
oa.I, some moss-grown Mormon mo-
Peli taii,-,rd the far west, confirmed We,
ing II 70 the matrimonial habit, may nx thg
siln 81 I V1;ctI1re in his so-called mlnd' anu
remembering how, on MS a'ii'"' -