Show or ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD Kill Nyc Talks About tile Bronze G o l lcss 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 lie little dreamed that the time would come when we would have more liberty than we could pay for When Sir Henry sawed the air and shouted for liberty or death I do not believe that he knew the time would one day come when Liberty would stand knee deep in the mud of Bedloes Island and yearn for a solid place to stand upon It 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 Amer-ica 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 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 I study American institutions the more I regret that I was not born a foreigner so that I could have something to say about the management of our great land If I could not be a foreigner I believe I would prefer to be a Mormon or an Indian not taxed I am often led to ask in the language of the poet Is the Caucasian played out Most everybody can have a good deal of fun in this country except the American He seems to be so busy paying pay-ing his taxes all the time that he has very little time to mingle in the giddy whirl 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 That is why we are always in a hurry the reason we have to throw our meals into ourselves with a dull thud and hardly have time to maintain ff 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 have any left for ourselves or not What we would the great world beyond the to us if some day the blueeyed seas say Mormon with his heart full of love for our female seminaries and our old homes should land uriOn our womens all the using coast and find that we were ourselves liberty anyhow VImt do we want of liberty with it if we had it What could we do It takes a man of leisure to enjoy liberty whatever it is have no leisure and we the for fx to keep in the house a good thing dont need it useof guests only but we for ourselves statue of Therefore I am in favor ef a Enlightening the World because Liberty winter tap it on that we keep it will show We want the whole broad and summer remember that when it gets world to come rto it can tired of oppres ion Ye are used and us America oppress like It If we don t and we rather to it and go the steamer like it we can get 011 visit time effete abroad where we may yisit abroad old time morSarchiesCandYave high monarchies and have a the Goddess of Liberty of The sight harborl11pht York there in NeW inO tauding stan vhathiflg her feet in time rippling and da It nn be first will be a good thing sea of good also be productive It may rate that many have not thought ill a direction stands there day after day of As she in the broad AtlantI her feet bathing lormon rnov erhap5 some mossgrown confirmed I perhaps fnr toward the far west a mng habIt may fix the I thci of the matrimonial socalled mIld and his so in I I bright picture how Ofl his arrival III New I rcmembCr1 J S Xork with ho saw XibextybathingJier feet impunity he may be led in after years to try it on himself BILI NYE |