The Labor enquirer., 1884-05-10
DENVER, COLORADO. SATURDAY. NAY TO- 1884
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heads.
When fate becomes unbearable, the
most cowardly beings become heroes.
And heroism of the masses generally
declares itself in sacrifice. But the
masses have always suffered their doom,
from the fact of their being the masses.
Untutored, unorganized. they could re-
sist, but scarcely conquer their oppres-
sors They authenticated their resist
ance by sacrificing their homes and
abodes, their birthrights and privileges,
their momentary existence even, to lib
erty and freedom, and emigrated. So
long as the world was wide and whole
continents wildernesses. the oppressed,
not able to resist the well.organized
might and power of their oppressors,
fled away and became the carriers of a
new civilization, by men necessity, to
other regions and to other lands. They
had learned hard lessons in the desper-
ate schools of bondage and thralldom,
slavery and misery. They profted by
experience and improved by friction.
Thus the powerful and mighty always
represented the conservative human ele-
ment, the lowly and poor the liberal one.
Bigotry, intolerance, tyranny and cruelty
embellished the shield of the usurper,
the sovereign and the master Meekness
tolerance, Righteousness and humanity
blossomed upon the lowly tunic of the
enslaved, the masses, the people. And
this is the truth of to-day. This is the
obvious fact of time
The descendants of Jacob had become
people. Under the tyranny of Egypt
they had populated the finest part of the
Nile delta. In spite of slavery and ter
rorism from the mighty of the land,
they had increased to such an extent
that they became formidablein numbers
even to the well organized task-masters
of the Pharoahs. They would have re-
sisted and conquerored their enslavers,
but they had become so docile in their
thralldom that such an idea seemed to
be out of the question. Moses, their
leader, being of superior intellect, hav-
ing had the advantage of the tutilage of
the Egyptian priests who were the sci
entists of that age, plainly saw that only
emigration could save his people. What
he could not achieve by force, might and
main, he must accomplish by strategy,
cunning and deceit. He had learned
much, and proftlng by his learning, be-
came the savior of his down-trodden
brethren. He had learned astronomy
among his 9th er accomplishments. He
knew that if the sun and moon would be
together in the upper elimination, the
moon being new at the time,in syzygiac
and at the same time i'll perfgaeum, the
sun in perihelion, the northeast monsoon
changing to the southwest monsoon and
the daily period of ebb and food in
suring flood. That if all these astronom-
ical events would happen just at such
spring food and at the precise time of
the change of monsoon from northeast
to southwest, the waters of the Red sea
would recede for miles south, coming
back in the shape of boar or roaring
wall of water twenty to thirty feet high
and Overfowed the adjacent low, sandy
shores of the western gulf of the Red
sea. He knew that if he could push his
Israelitic brethren and sisters with all
their children and belongings across the
branch of the Red sea, intervening be-
tween Egypt and the land of Sinai, he
would be able to save them from their
pursuing task masters, and probably see
the pursuers drowned in the returning
roar of waters which must happen few
hours after he had passed the flood dried
arm of the Red sea. He observed and
| found the date when this rare phenome-
non would be enacting the event needed
for his purposes of liberation. He
worked hard and got his people ready to
move at the appointed time. Yet to
force them to obey him implicitly, he
had to keep the phenomenon secret
from all and declare to his people that
God had instructed him and promised
to lead his people through the Red sea
in safety. The time came. His people
obeyed blindlY. They came to the low
shores of the sea. Moses took rod and
pretended to command the recede, when
he saw that the ebb began to make
south. Soon the sea lay dry at his feet
He hurried his people across the dried
up bed of the sea. But he took good
care to be over upon the other side
along with the first. The caravan was
long. There were vast multitudes OF
fleeing Israelites. Moses saw the boar
coming, but he also saw King Pharaoh
come with his chariots and cavalry in
pursuit. He again pretends to command
the waters to come back. They came
back, of course, but along with the pur
suing Egyptians, goodly number of the
laggards, sick and crippled were
drowned. Thus Moses saved the emf
grating thousands Of escaping slaves, got
rid of all the aged, crippled and worth
less and also of the flower of Pharoah's s
army. This secured him from further
pursuit and enabled him to- push on with
more effect toward the desert of Sinai