The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-09-21
BILL NYE ON LIBERTY.
He Thinks Only Those Who Come Hel
From Abroad Enjoy 1t.

He Thinks Only Those Who Come Here
From Abroad Enjoy 1t.
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 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 ell
joy himself all he needs is a slight foreign
accent and a Willingness to mix up with
politics as soon as he can get his baggage
off the steamer.
The more study American institutions
the more regret that / was not born for
eigner so that could have something TO say
about the management of our great land. Ii
could not be foreigner. l believe | would
prefer to be a Mormon or an Indian o
taxed.
am often led to ask, In the language of
poet, is the Caucasian played outP"
Most everybody can have a good deal of
fun in this country except the American.
He seems to be SO busy paying his taxes
all the time that he has very little
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 main
tain 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
bunch OF freedom to every man. woman or
child who comes to our shores. and 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
our female seminaries and our old
women'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 itP 1t takes man of
leisure to enjoy liberty, and we have no
leisure whatever. It is a good thing to keep
in the house "for the use of guests only"
but we don't need it for ourselves.
Therefore, AM in favor of a Statue Of
Liberty Enlightening the World, because
it Will show that we keep it on tap winter
world to remember that when it gets tired
of oppression it can come here to America
and Cypress us. We are used TO it, aud we
rather like it. II we don't like it we can get
on the steamer and 60 abroad, where we
can visit the effete mOnarchies and have a
high old time.
The sight of the Goddess of Liberty stand
ing there in New York harbor night and
day, bathing her feet in the ripping sea,
will be good thing. 1t will be 1rst-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 At
lantic, perhaps some moss grown Mormon
moving toward the far West, a confirmed
victim Of the matrimonial habit, may fix the
bright picture in his so-called mind, and re-
Numbering how, on his arrival in New
York, he saw Liberty bathing her feet with
impunity, he may be led in after years to
try it on himself.-From Bill Nye's STRAY
Thoughts"