Show A WARNING The ceremonies attending the inauguration inau-guration of the Statue of Liberty Enlightening En-lightening the World as described in THE BEBALDS dispatches yesterday were indeed imposing and now that the statue is inaugurated it remains for the people of the United States to see that the principle typified by tne mammoth and noble statue is not violated vio-lated in the land at whose gates stands the Goddess Our nation may well take a warning from the beautiful story of the Statue of Justice in Longfellows Evangeline Once in an Ancient City Raised aloft on a column a brazen Statue of Justice Stood in the public square upholding the scales in its left hand And in its risjh a sword as au emblem that Justice presided Over the laws of the landand the hearts and homes of the people But in the course of time the laws of the land were corrupted Wrongtook the place of right and the weak were oppressed and the miguty Ruled with a rod of Iron Then it chanced in a noblemans palace pa-lace That a necklace of pearls was lost and ere long a suspicion Fell on an orpan girl who lived as a maid in the household She after form of trial condemned to die on toe scaffold Patienty met her doom at the foot of the Statue of Justice AI to her Father in heaven her innocent spirit ascended Loo er the city a tempest arose and the bolts of the thunder Smote the statue of bronze and hurled in wr th from its left hand Down on the pavement below the clattering scales of the balance And in the hOllow thereof was found the nest of a magpie Into whose claybuilt walls the necklace of pearls wa inwoven Then let our own proud nation see to it that the Goddess of Liberty Enlightening Enlight-ening the World becomes no hollow I mockery She stands at the entrance of our principal commercial city as a token that liberty exists in the nation and that her light is yet to be shed abroad upon all people But if in the land over which the fair Goddess presides pre-sides oppression shall be practiced may we not expect that the avenging goab will strike from her hands the torch and the laws and shake her to rain that the gods and the nations may not be mocked |