Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-01
BARTHOLDTS BIG GIRL.
The Prejudice Met by CanS"sser
 For the Pedestal Fund

The Bartholdi Pedestal Fund is nearly complete. The statue has arrived anu soon New York HarbOr will Do graced by the most magnificent colossal statue the world has ever seen.
 Liberty EnlighteEi,Ig the World! . What q priceless blessing personal liberty is. IL is the shrine at which neonIe- ground under the heel of tyranny in the older worlds, worship with a feryency that Americans can scarcely realize: it is a principle for which Nihilists willingly die the death of dogs and fit and proper it is tha. at the very entrance of the Bay of New York tils emblematic statue should flash a vel come to the world.
 The press is entitled to the credit oi tbis achievement. Mir. Philip Beers. who has been making a circuit o' the country on behalf of the Pedestal und. saws that the fund will certainly bc raised. as the World does not know the word fdd. "
 NIT. Beers says that he has found the most pronounced generosity among those Inf foreign birth. They seem more ap- ureciative of liberty than do our native horn. Moreover, among some, a strange prejudice seems to exist
 1Preiudice? In what particular
 "I have ever found that however meritorious a thing may be, thousands of people will inevitably be preIudiced against it. I have spent most oi my life on the road and know the American people like a book lnlS79 personal misfortune illustrated this prevailing preiudice. l was very Ill, had suffered for several years with headache, hckle appetite, dreadful backache, cramps, hot head, cold hands and feet and a general break down of the system l dragged myself back toNew York, seek ing the best professional treatment. It SO happens that among my relatives IS a distinguished physician who upbralded me roundly for preaching so much about my own case. Finally, with some spirit, remarked to him -
 "s Sir. YOU know that much of your professional wisdom is pretense. You are controlled by prejudice. You can not reach a case like mine and you know it, can you?'"
 "I had him and he finally conceded the point, for it was Bright's Disease ci the kidneys which had prostratcd me, and the school-men admit they cannot cure it. Having cured myself, however, in 1879, and not having seen a sick day since, my relative finally admitted that Warmers Safe Cure, which accomplished this result, was s really wonderful prep aration. Had President Rutter, of the Central Hudson, used it, l am certain he would be alive to-day, for he could not have been in a worse condition than l was"
 "I have found similar preiIdicet among all classes concerning even so laudable a scheme as this Pedestal Fund"
 Mir. Beers's experience and the recent death of President Rutter, of the Central Hudson Railroad, of an extreme kidney disorder, proves that the physicians have no real power over such disc ases, and indicates the only course one should pursue if, as the late Dr. Willard Parker says, headache, sickness of the s:omach, dropsicsl swellings, back ache, dark and offensive fluids, prematurely impaired eyesight, loss of strength and energy occur, for they unmistakably indicate a fatal result, if not promptly arrested.
 Yes, sir-ee, every cent needed for the pedestal will be raised. Of course it will be a great triumph for the WSrLd, but would 1t not have been an eternal disgrace had our people failed tc provide for this pedestal?"