But a Hungarian immigrant, Joseph Pulitzer, the owner of America's biggest newspaper called the World, wouldn't let “Liberty” go. When he

　　heard that the Statue of Liberty was about to die from lack of funds, he saw his chance.

　　Pulitzer set the fund­raising goal of the World at D|S100,000. In its pages he laughed at the rich, thus increasing the paper's appeal among working­class people, and firmly planted the idea that the statue was a monument not just for New York City but, indeed, for all of America.

　　Perhaps Pulitzer's cleverest trick was the promise to publish the name of every single contributor in the pages

　　of the World, no matter how small the contribution. The editorial that opened the fund­raising campaign set its tone. He wrote：“The World is the people's paper and it now appeals to the people to come forward and raise the money for the statue's base.”

　　The statue, he said, was paid for by “the masses of the French people. Let us respond in like manner.” The circulation of the World

　　increased by almost 50,000 copies.

　　African American newspapers joined in the effort, encouraging their readers to contribute to a monument that would, in part, celebrate the end of slavery. So the money poured

　　in, as single­dollar donations from grandmothers and pennies from the piggy banks of schoolchildren.

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