We are all familiar with the history.

The Statue of Liberty was originally conceived to be a colossus at the Mediterranean end of the

Suez Canal, but the guy in charge of Egypt at the time had no desire to spend money on a huge statue of a local peasant girl, so the idea was scrapped.

At least its original purpose was.

But convinced it was still a good idea, the artist, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, who conceived the idea offered it to the United States where the idea was accepted. The people of France paid for the statue, but the price of pedestal on which it needed to stand was to be paid for by personal donations and fund raisers.

So Bartholdi  and  Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, who built the inner support structure, and also the tower in Paris, assembled the statue’s arm from the torch to just below the wrist and got that put up in Philadelphia so people would see how big the statue would be and would just have to have it.

It was a symbol of the United States, and with the country being 100 years old, who could resist.

Emma Lazarus, penned her famous poem about the poor and huddled masses to help in the fundraising, and after it was up for 15 years it was cast into a bronze plaque and added to the pedestal  not only because of its sentiment, but because of its importance to giving the statue something to stand on.

The poem, whether printed or cast, is part of the story of the statue.

On a personal note, and I have no reason to doubt her story, the very old lady who lived next door with her daughter when I was a real little kid, told me one time that she had walked on the outside of the statue as a child of about three or four.

As she explained it, her father, an immigrant from Germany, was one of the supervisors of the construction, and when all the pieces had arrived on Bedloe’s Island he brought her to the site and had her walk on the crates that contained the pieces and on some of the unpacked sections so that, as he had joked with his fellow supervisors and work crew, his daughter would be able to say she was the only person ever to walk up the outside of the Statue of Liberty without the aid of a rope.

Because as thin as the skin of the statue actually is, an adult performing that feat would have bent every piece he stood on, a three year old wouldn’t. Apparently the workers liked the idea. And, someone had to be able to say they had on it.
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She did hold her father’s hand, but that in no way diminishes her feat.

Sawney Thorne died in her late 80s in the mid 1960s so she was the right age to support her story, and having been raised in New York City by German immigrant parents, and just being the nice lady she was, there is no reason to doubt her.

Plus, as she insisted, somewhere there has to the pictures that were taken of her standing on a piece of the statue’s skin holding her father’s hand.

The Statue had been welcoming immigrants to the United States doe 60 year until it closed in 1954, so had she come here as a legal immigrant, Donald Trump’s mother would have had the experience of Lady Liberty welcoming her to our “golden door!”.

 

When Trump representative Stephen Miller explained his immigration plan that would no longer allow family members of those already here, or anyone else entry if they couldn’t speak English and qualify for a good job, like those with PHDs who can come here to get field hand work, it was clear that this plan would no longer accept the tired,  the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

He was asked about that by a CNN reporter who is the son of immigrants,

“What you’re proposing, or what the President is proposing here, does not sound like it’s in keeping with American tradition when it comes to immigration. The Statue of Liberty says, ‘give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.’ It doesn’t say anything about speaking English or be a computer programmer. Aren’t you trying to change what it means to be an immigrant coming into this country?”

Miller’s condescending answer was,

“The poem you’re referring to was added later, it’s not actually a part of the original Statue of Liberty.”

Obviously, unlike any third grader he does not know the difference between a poem that sums up what America mean to those who come here and existed before the petal, and a bronze plaque.

Also, where does that put amendments to the Constitution?