[Berlin_Freeper]

"A young girl alone in the world" donated "60 cents, the result of self denial."[88] One donor gave "five cents as a poor office boy's mite toward the Pedestal Fund." A group of children sent a dollar as "the money we saved to go to the circus with."[89] Another dollar was given by a "lonely and very aged woman."[88] Residents of a home for alcoholics in New York's rival city of Brooklyn—the cities would not merge until 1898—donated $15; other drinkers helped out through donation boxes in bars and saloons.[90] A kindergarten class in Davenport, Iowa, mailed the World a gift of $1.35.[88] As the donations flooded in, the committee resumed work on the pedestal.[91]

[familyop]

The Statue of Liberty was meant to symbolize freedom. Are those hordes of people from extremely corrupt countries coming for freedom or money? Will they make the USA more free, or will they continue to take control of more business and government to insist that we submit to their cultures? What about the State that the Statue is in? Does that State stand for American freedom or for foreign tyranny? How about those who fund the huge migrations? Do they stand for freedom, or do they want to finish their enslavement of the American people? And what about the so-called free trade enforced by the people of the Democrat states like New York? Have they been making us more free?