Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-11-19
Amount cleared by the farmer.....,....

Clear prOduce.............. ................ SOS4
Amount cleared by the farmer........... 1854
Or. as my authority declares, 20
per cent of what the Egyptian farmer
makes, is paid for taxes to thegovern-
ment. Now, that is not so much tax
alton as assassination. What do you
think OF that? You who groan under
heavy taxes OF america? have heard
that in Egypt the working people have
a song like this: ''Ehey starve us,
they starve us, they beat us, they beat
us, but there's some one above, there's
some one above, who willpunish them
well, who will punish them WELL" But
20 percent OF government tax in
Egypt is a mercy as compared to what
the Hebrew slaves suffered there in
Bible times. They got nothing but
food hardly fit for a dog, and their
clothing was Of one rag, and their roof
a burning sky by day and the stars of
heaven by night. Jacobs descendants
rapidly multiplied. After a while
Egypt took turn at famine land
those descendants of Jacob, the Israel
ties, came to a great storehouse which
Joseph had provided, and paid in
money for corn. But after while the
money gave out and then they paid in
cattle. After awhile the cattle were all
in possession of the government and
then the Hebrews bought corn from
the government by surrendering them
selves as slaves.
Then began
| SLAVERY IN EGYPT.
The government owned all the He
brews. Where was help to come
from? Not the throne, Pharaoh sat
upon that. Not the army, Pharaoh's
officers commanded that. Not sur
rounding nations, Pharaoh's threat
made them all tremble. Not the gods
Ammon and Osiris, or the goddess
Isis, for Pharaoh built their temples
out OF the groans of this diabolical
servitude But one hot day the
Princess Thonorls, the daughter OF
Pharaoh, while in her bathing house
on the banks of the Nile has word
brought to her that there is baby
ahoat on the river in a cradle made
out of big leaves. OF course
there is excitement all up and down
the banks, for an ordinary baby in all
ordinary cradle attracts smiling at
5ention, but an infant in a
cradle Of papyrus rocking on
a river arouses not only ad-
miration but curiosity. Who made
that boat? Who made it water-tight
with bitumen? Who launched it?
Reckless OF the crocodilies who lay
basking themselves in the sun, the
maidens wade in and snatch up the
child, and first one carries him,
then another carries him. and
all the way up the bank he runs a
gauntlet OF caresses, till Thonoris
rushes out OF the bathing house and
says: Beautiful founding, I will
adopt you as my own. You shall
yet wear the Egyptian crown and sit
on the Egyptian throne. No! No!
No! He is to be the emancipation OF
the Hebrews.
To the Egyptians the Nile was
deity, It's waters were then as now
very delicious. 1t was the finest
natural beverage of all the earth.
son, and Germans have no such love
for the Rhine, and Russians have no
such love for the Volga, as the
Egyptians have love for the Nile. But
one day when Pharaoh comes down
this river, Moses takes a stick and
they turn into the gore of slaughter
house, and through the sluices and
fish-ponds the incarnadined liquid
backs up into the land and the
malodor whelms everything from
mud novels to thronerroom. Then
came the frogs with horrible croak all
over everything. Then this people,
clearly almost to fastidiousness,
were infested with insects that belong
to the filthy and unkempt, and the
air buzzed and buzzed with flies, and
then the distemper started cows to
believing, and horses to neighing, and
camels to grooming, as they rolled
over and expired. And then boils,
one of which will put a man in wretch
edness, came in clusters from the top
of the head to the sole of the foot.
And then the clouds dropped hail and
lightning. And then the locusts came
in, swarms of them, worse then the
grasshoppers ever were in Kansas,
and then darkness dropped for three
days so that the people could not
see their hands before their face, great
surges of midnight covering them.
And last of all, on the night OF the
18th of April, about eighteen hundred
years before Christ
THE DESTROYING ANGEL
sweeps past; and hear it all night
long, the flap! flap! fap of his awful
wings until Egypt rolled on, a great
hearse, the eldest child dead in every
Egyptian home. The eldest son Of
Pharaoh expired that night in the
palace and along the streets of Mem
phis and Heliopolis and all up and
down the Nile there was a funeral
wall that would have rent the fold of
the unnatural darkness if it had not
| been impenetrable.
The Israelitish homes, however,
were untouched. But these homes
were full of preparation, for now is
your chance, 0 ye wronged Hebrews!
Snatch up what pieces of food you
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