The Bryan Daily Eagle

Mexican Newspapers Suggested Some Time Ago that the American Liberty Bell Should Be Put on Exhibition at the World's Fair to Be Held in the City of Mexico, Says the New York World. One or Two Other Newspapers Had Something to Say About the Project and Then a Native Patriot Rushed into Print with the Proposition that Mexico Should Get Liberty Bell of Her Own.

The hint bore the traces of inspiration and the community was immediately aflame with the bell fever. There was no authentic record that any particular bell was rung upon the occasion of Mexico gaining her independence, but it was established beyond peradventure that there were bells in Mexico at the memorable date.

An eminent scholar in one of the interior cities made long and laborious search of the national archives, resulting in the discovery that before, at or soon after the federal independence any one of dozen bells might have been rung. The populace went wild over this important revelation and it was the unanimous voice of the nation that if the bells were not rung when slavery's shackles were unfettered, at any rate they ought to have been. And therefore Mexico must have its liberty bell.

At this particular juncture a fervid poet paraphrased the classics and let drop a motto that was greedily seized upon by the people. "Aut campanam inveniam, aut faciam," he sung, and, taking up the cry, the populace swore they would either find a bell or make one.

In order that no time should be wasted, with the national exhibition only a few months off, it became necessary to prepare for both alternatives. Several enthusiastic gentlemen charged themselves with the duty of supplying the national want by having a nice, clean liberty bell made to order. This much assured, a group of none-the-less-arduous patriots have set to work to frustrate the labors of the other party by finding just such an old bell as would fill the bill to perfection.