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Show Page 8 THE UTAH INDEPENDENT February 25, 1971 LIBERTY - Monument and Principle by twelve horses to the world's fair. (Continued from page 7) statue, he remarked, as he sketched a figure of a woman on a Finally on July 4, 1884, the completion and the acceptance ceremony took place. It had been difficult for the Americans to gather enough money to build pedestal, which surprisingly cost more than the statue. The Presi-de- scrap of paper. It will be the largest statue ever built, and I will name it Liberty, enlightening the world , he declared. Returning to Paris, Bartholdi went immediately to his good friend Alexandre Eiffel, architect of the massive Eiffel Tower, and asked liim if he would build the framework for his statue. First they must build a smaller model thirty six feet high. Curious Parisians watched the growth of this massive statue as it towered above the housetops. After its r mincompletion, this iature model of the Statue of nt twin-siste- Liberty was placed on a bridge in Paris that crosses the Seine. It can still be seen there today. The large arm and torch of the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York in 1876. Over a million people came by to see the statue's fingers larger than a man. Everyone supposed it was going to be a new kind of lighthouse. In 1878 the head arrived and was pulled overlay on iron and weighs nearly a half million pounds, and cost over a half million dollars. The tablet in her hand is inscribed with the date of the Declaration of Independence. The crown on her head emits rays of of the light of liberty resun-sym- bolic flecting to all nations-mo- re of the United States clearly illustrated at night when appointed Senator Evart to speak at the dedication; then when signaled, Bartholdi who was up in the torch was to cut the large tricolor banner which draped the statue. During a patriotic expression by Evart, the crowd applauded and cheered; Bartholdi thought it was his signal, and down came the big banner. Ships in the harbor saw it fall and began to blow their whistles. These signalled the cannons to fire, and then the band began to play. No one heard the end of the speech. The massive graceful lady, whose flowing robe reached to her feet, stood 305 feet from the torch to the base of the pedestal, to become the largest statue ever built. The statue has a copper great floodlights illuminate her for miles in the darkness. Few people ever notice the shackles that lay broken at her feet, and Americans today would do well to look back upon the shackles of tyranny that were broken for the birth of liberty in America. In 1903 a poem by Emma Lazarus, entiled New Colossus, was inscribed on the pedestal, part of which reads: Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door. In 1924 Congress changed the name of Bedloe Island to Liberty Island, and the Statue of Liberty became a national monument. On February 17, 1965, a plot to blow up the Statue of Liberty was stopped. The hero on this occasion was a 31 year old Negro policeman who had only been on the force for 10 months. Working inside the Black Liberation d and Front a China terrorist group, he prevented the destruction of this Pro-Castr- Pro-Re- o Congressman John G. Schmitz famous statue. One member of this seditious internationally group was an attractive girl announcer, who was well known or her affiliation with the United As inflation continues through- out the national economy, with Nations. 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