The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-12-04

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Amount cleared Ivy the farmer a;5v
Or, rs my authority declares. 20 per
cent Of what the Egyptian farmer
makes Is paid for taxes TO the govern.
nient Now, that Is not 40 much taxa.
ton rs assassination. What think you
of that? You who groan under heavy
taxes in America?
| have heard that in Egypt that work.
Ing people have "A song like this: They
starvc us, they starve us, they beat us
! they beat us, but there's some one
above, there's some one above, who
| will punish them well, who will punish
them we'll" But seventy per cent of
| government tax in Egypt is mercy as
compared to what the Hebrew slaves
suffered there in Bible times They
| got nothing but food hardly fiji for n
dog, and their clothing was of one rag.
and their roof burning sky by day
and the stars OF heaven by night You
say, why did they stand itP" Re-
cause they had TO stand IT, You see
along back in the worlds twilight there
was IA famine in Canaan, and old Jacob
and his sons came to Egypt for bread
The old mans boy Joseph was prime
minister, and Joseph supposed the
| fathers and the brothers called him Joe
! for it does not make any difference how
much IA boy is advanced i'm worldly sue
cess his father and brothers and sisters
always call him by the same name that
| he was called 10y when two years old
Joseph. by Pharaoh's permission, gave
| To his family, who had just arrived, the
| richest part OF Egypt, the Westminster
| farms or the Lancaster farms of the
| ancipntS Jacobs descendants rapidly
multiplied. After awhile Egypt took
turn ut famine. and those descendants
of Jacob--the Israclitcs-camc TO a
great store house which Joseph had
provided. and paid in money for corn.
But after awhile the money gave out
and then they paid in cattle. After
awhile the cattle were all in the posses
! sion of the government and then the
| Hebrews bought corn from the govern
mcnt by surrcndcring themselves as
slaves.
Then began slavery in Egypt.
The government owned all the He.
brcws. And let the modern lunatics,
who in America, propose handing over
| telegraph companies and railroads and
other things TO be run 10y the govern
mcnt, see the folly Of letting the gov
eminent get its hand on every thing.
would rather trust the people than
anv government the United States ever
had or will have. Woe with the day
when legislators and congresses and
administrations get possession OF any
thing more than is necessary for them
TO have. That would be the revival in
this land of that old Egyptian tyranny
for which God has never had any thing
but red hot thunder bolts But through
such unwiSc processes Israel was en-
shaved in Egypt, and the long line OF
aronics began all up and down the
Nile Heavier and sharper fell the
lash, hungricr and ghastIicr grew the
workmcn, louder and longer went up
| the prayer, until 3,OOO,00O of the en-
shaved were crying: "Ha! Allah! va!
! Allah" Oh, God, Oh, God,
"Whcrc was help to come from? Not
the throne, Pharaoh sat upon that.
! Not the army, pharaoh's officers COM
| mandcd that Not the surrounding
! nations, Pharaoh's threat made them
trcmblc. Not the gods Ammon and
| Osiris. or the goddess Isis, for Pharaoh
built their temples ont of the groans Of
this diabolical scrvitudc But one hot
day the Princess ThonOris, the daugh-
ter of Pharaoh, while in her bathing
house on the banks Of the Nile, has
word brought TO her that there IS
baby afloat on the river in cradle
made out Of big leaves or course there
is excitement all up and down the
banks. for an ordinary baby in an ordi-
nary cradle attracts smiling attention.
but an infant in n cradle OF papyrus
rocking on n river arouscs not only adj
miration but curiosity. Who made that
bootp Who made il water tight with
bi,umen. Who launched it? Reckless
of the crocodiles who lay basking
themselves in the sum- the
mnidens wade in and snatch
ND the child and first one car
RIGS him and then another
carries him. and all the way up the
bank he runs a gauntletot caresses, tlil
Thonoris rushes out OF the oathlhg
house and says: beautiful founding
| will adopt you as my own You
shall wear the Egyptian crown and SIT
ON the Egyptian throne. NO. NO
No, lie is to be the emancipation OF the
r Hebrews. Tell it in all brick kilns'
, Tell II among all those who are with
inc under the lash, tell IL among all the
, castles of Memphis and lIeliopolis and
' Zoan and Thedcs Before MN Sc"
3 will part, On mountain top alone, thls
. one will receive from the AimlSnty,
2 law that Is 10 be the foundation OF all