Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-02


need a.l hands busy u accomplish 1t
at sucl a time 70 have his employee
make a strike and put their employer
into extreme perplexity and severe los
! then Labor becomes a Pharaoh o
the worst oppression, and must lool
| ont for the Judgments of God
When in December of 1889, at tn,
museum at Boulac, Egypt, | looked a
the mummies of the Pharaohs, the very
miscreants who diabolized centuries
and | saw their teeth and hair and fin
ger nails and the flesh drawn tight ovel
their cheek bones, the sarcophagi Of
these dead nonarchs side by side, and
was so fascinated ] could only with
difficulty get away from the spot
was not looking upon the last of the
Pharaohs. All over the world old
merchants playing the Pharaoh over
young merchants, old lawyers playing
the Pharaoh over young lawyers, old
doctors playing the Pharaoh over
young doctors, old artists playing the
Pharaoh over young artists, old min
isterS playing the Pharaoh over young
ministers.
Let all oppressors, whether in homes,
in churches, in stores, in Offices, in fac
tories, in social life or political life, in
private life or public life know that
God hates oppressors, and they will all
come to grief here or hereafter. Pha-
raoh thought he did fine thing, cum
ming thing, decisive thing when for
the complete extinction of the Hebrews
in Egypt he ordered all the Hebrew
boys massacred, but he did not find it
so fine thing when his own first born
that night of the destroying angel
dropped dead on the mosaic floor at
the foot of the porphyry pillar of the
palace. Let all the Pharaohs take
warning Some of the worst of them
are. on a small scale in households as
when a man, because his arm is strong
and his voice loud, dominates his poor
wife into a domestic slavery.
There are thousands of such cases
where the wife. is a lifetime serf, her
opinion disregarded, her tastes insulted
and her existence a wretchedness,
though the world may not know it. 1t
is Pharaoh that sits at the head of
that table, and Pharaoh that tyran-
nizes that home. There is no more alb
horrent Pharaoh than a domestic Pha-
raoh. There are thousands of women
to whom death is passage from Egypt
to Canaan, because they get rid of a
cruel taskmaster.
What an accursed monster is that
man who keeps his wife in dread about
family expenses, and must be cautious
how she introduces an article of mil
linery or womanly wardrobe without
humihating consultation and apology.
Who Is that man acting so9 For six
months-in order to win that woman's
heart, he sent her every few days a
bouquet wound with white ribbon, and
an endearing couplet, and took her to
concerts and theaters, and helped her
into carriages as though she were a
DiAllCCoo, anu lGil dClOcS illC IOOln W
pick up her pocket handkerchief with
the speed of an antelope, and on the
marriage day promised all that the lit
urgy required, saying, II will2'' with
an emphasis that excited the admira-
ton of all spectators
But now he begrudges her two cents
for postage stamp, and wonders why
she rides across Brooklyn bridge when
the foot passage costs nothing. He
thinks now she is awful plain, and he
acts like the devil, while he thunders
out; Where did you get that new hat
froml That's where my money goes.
Where's my breakfastl Do you call
that coffeel Didn't tell you to sew
ON that buttonl Want to see your
mother, do youl You are always GO
ing TO see your motherl What are you
whimpering aboutl Hurry up, now.
and get my slippersl Where's the
newspaper The tone, the look, the
impatience-the cruelty Of Pharaoh
That is what gives so many women
a cowed down look. Pharaoh, you had
better take your iron heel off that WON
ans neck, or God win help you remove
your heel She says nothing. For the
sake of avoiding a scandal she keeps
silent; but her tears and wrongs have
gone into record that you will have to
meet as certainly as Pharaoh had to
meet hail and lightning and darkness
and the death angel. God never yet
gave to any man the right TO tyrannize
woman, and what sneak you are TO
take advantage of the marriage vow,
and because she cannot help herself
and under the shelter of your own home
out-Pharaoh the Egyptian oppressor.
There is something awfully wrong in a
household whore the woman is not con
sidered of as much Importance as the
man No room in this world for any
more Pharaohs.
SIN HAS BEEN OUR TAsKNIAsrFR