A STATUE TO ADAM.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1922, 23 February 1885, Page 2

A STATUE TO ADAM.

The following letter. deprecatiQg ! 'ihe erection of a statue to" Liberty "and suggesting that itw'otild be to rear a monument' to the.--memory of Adanv, appears in: the A'meHcfnvii'apers from the pen of Mark '•• ;"•■ You know my weakness for you know how I have get * him a monument; and failed;. %ew it seems to me here is ray chancer'-What do we care for astatue of Liberty.i'when weget the-thing itself kits widest sublimity, what you want of is to keep you in mind of something 'you haven't got, something you've lost.- Very well, we haven't lost Liberty; weWlost Adam. Anotherthing—whatKasWerty dono for us? Nothing in pariticukSLt I know of. What have we done 1 -for her? Everything,. We've given- Kef a : home, and a good home, too, and'jif-ste' knows anything-she knows that.it's-tlie"first time she ever struck' that "horeltyKShe knows that when we took heriiiififfhad only been a'mefe tramp for^^O-years, Bibllcalmeasure, Yes, and'tffe-:iio : t'«nly mended her troubles and. mdde-'things soft for her permanently,'-but we made her respectable and that she hadn't been before.; And now after wehid.' poured out this Atlantic of benefits upon'this aged outcast, lo and behold !,we'are asked to.come forward and set up a monument to her, Go to I Let her set up" monument to us if ahe wanl3to;do;:the'square ■ thing. • But suppose. yO'uT monument reproaenjed hef old, bent,, downcast, shamefaced, with the insults "of GOOO i •years imploring a crust andan hour's mUf for God's sake, at our back dobH : -'Gome!?/ now you're shouting! That's Waspect of her which we need to be.' reminded of lest we forget it; not this proposed; mp, where she is hearty and ,well-fedgfed holds up her head, and : fl6udshes?»r . hospitable schooner of fiamjj''aiiia : ; app;ears to be inviting all the rest dfthe tramps to come over. Oh go to! Thisjs the very insolence of prosperity.. "But-'on the other hand look at Adani! ■-Wiiat'liave we done for Adam? Nothing. 4Vhat has' Adam done for us ? Everything! l . Be. gave us life, he gave' us heaven,- he-gave us hell, Those are mestimable'prlvilegei, and remember, not one of these 'ahoukj we have without Adam, Well, .'then, he ought to have a monument, for evolution is steadily and surely quite abolishing him. And be quick about it or our children's children will grow up in ignorance that there ever was an Adam. With trifling alterations this statue will do for Adam. You can turn that blanket . into an ulster without any trouble, part the hair on the one side or conceal the sex of his head with a fire and at once he's a man. Put a harp and a halo an olive branch in the left hand, io sydjlk bolise part of what Adam did for us, W leave the fire basket just where it is v w symbolise the result, My friend&he father of life and death, and. taxePSas been neglected long enough, Shall this infamy be allowed to go on, or shall it stop right here: It is- a question of finance? Behold the enclosed (paid bank) cheques, Use them as freely as they are freely contributed. Heaven knows I wish there were'a ton of- them; 1 would send them all to you, for my heart is in this sublime work, • - •