Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-11-07

Or, as my authority declares, 70 per
cent OF what the Egyptian farmer
makes, Is paid for taxes TO the govern
ment. Now, that Is not so much tax-
alton as assassination. What think
you OF that? You who groan under
heavy taxes In America? have heard
that in Egypt the working classes have
a song like this: They starve lis, they
starve us, they bsat 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 10
per cent OF government tax in Egypt Is
a mercy compared to what the Hebrew
slaves suffered there in bible times
They got nothing hut food hardly nj Tor
u dog. aud their clothing was y! one
rag, and their roof a burning SKY by
day and the stars OF heaven b. night.
You say. "Why did they stand it,
Because they hat 10 stand 1t. You see,
along back in the words twilight there
was famine in Canaan. and old jacob
and his sons came to Egypt for bread.
The old mans boy Joseph was prime
minister, and Joseph suppose the
father and the brothers called him Jo'.
for il does not make any differences how
much boy Is advanced in worldly sue
cess his father and brothers and sisters
always call him by the same name that
he was called by when =
years old-Joseph, by Pharo'
abs permission, gave to his
family, who had just arrived. the rich
est part OF Egypt. the Westchester
farms or the Lancaster farms OF the an
clients. Jacobs descendants rapidly
multiplied. After awhile Egypt took a
turn at famine, and those descendants
OF Jacob the Israelites. came to 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 wore all in possession OF the gov
eminent, and then the Hebrews bought
corn from the government by surren-
dering themselves as slaves.
Then began slavery In Egypt The
government owned all the Hebrews.
and let. modern lunatics, who in Ameri-
ca propose handing over telegraph COM
panies and railroads and other things
10 be run by government see the folly
OF letting government get it's hand on
everything. / would rather trust the
people than any government the United
States ever had or will have. Woe
worth the day when Legislators and con-
crosses and administrations get posses
sion OF anything more than 1t Is necas-
sary for them to have. That would BE-
the revival in this land OF the old
Eghytian tyranny for which God has
never had anything but red hot thun-
derbolts. But through such unwise
processes Israel was enslaved in Egypt,
and the long line OF agonies began all
up and down the Nile. Heavier and
sharper fell the lash. hungrier and
ghastlier grew the workmen, louder
and longer went up the prayer, until
3. 900, 900 OF the enslaved were crying:
IVA Allah. Va Allah?" "Oh! God.
oh! God"
Where was the help to come from?
Not the throne. Pharaoh sat VI On that
Not the army, Pharaoh's officers COM
manded that. Not surrounding 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 dia-
bolical servitude. But one hot day the
Princess 1'honoris, the daughter OF
Pharaoh, while in her bathing house
on the Nile has word brought her that
there is baby aaoat on the river in
cradle made out OF big leaves. OF
course there Is excitement all up and
down the banks, for an ordinary baby
in an ordinary cradle attracts smiling
attention, but an infant in cradle OF
papyras rocking on a river arouses not
onlj admiration but curiosity. Who
made that boat? who made 1t water
tight with bitumen? Who launched it?
Reckless OF the crocodiles who lay
bask:ng themselves in the sun, the
naidens wade IN and snatch I'D the
child, and first one carries him and then
another carries him, and all the way up
the bank he runs the gauntlet OF ca
resses, till Thonoris rushes out OF the
bathing house and says: beautiful
foundling, 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
Oh Lue 1eDreWS. 1el IL III I'LL Tue
brick kilns Tell 1t among all those
who are writhing under the lash, tell 1t
among all the castles Memphis and He
liopolis and Zoan and Thebes. Before
him the sea will part. On a noun
tain top, alone. this one will receive
from the Almighty a law that Is to be
the foundation Of all good law while the
world lasts, When he Is dead God will
come down on Nebo and alone bury him,
no man or woman or angel worthy to
attend the obsequies. The child grows
up and goes out and studies the horrors
OF Egyptian oppression and suppresses
his Indignation, for the right time has
not come, although once for minute
he let fly and when he saw taskmaster
put whip on the back OF o workman
who was doing his best and heard the
poor fellow cry and saw the blood squirt,
Moses doubled his fist and struck him
on the temple till the cruel villain