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

] tuttEe- AdAuAtyl 10 Tie pOAAit oi otAl
walton was the Egyptian rule in tn
Bible times as we'll as il is in our owl
time 4 modern traveller gives tn
figures concerning the cultivation o
seventeen acres. tine value of the yiel,
Of the field stated in piastres:
| Irod ........................... ls0
ExpeHaes. ...-....................s-. Fso7
| Clear prOduce.................. oh}
axes s....-...---.--.s......... 80
! Amount cleared by the farmer........ sl5l
Or, as uy authority declares seventy
per cent. Of what the Egyptian farmer
makes is paid for taxes to the govern
ment Now. that is not so much taxa
ton as assassination. What think you
OF that, you who groan under heavy
/ taxes in Americal | have heard that
ia Egypt the working people have q
song like this They starve 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
we'll, who will punish them well. But
seventy per cent of government tax Is
a mercy as compared to what the He
brew slaves suffered there in Bible
times. They got nothing but food
hardly fit for dog, and their clothing
was Of one rag, and their roof burn
ing sky by day and the stars of heaven
b. night
You say, why did they stand itF
Because they had TO stand it. You
zee. along back in the worlds twilight,
there was a famine in Canaan, and old
Jacob and his sons came to Egypt for
bread. The old mans boy, Joseph,
was prime minister, and Joseph sup
pose the father and the brothers called
him Joe. for il does not make any diff
ference how much a boy is advanced
In worldly success. his father and broth
ers and sisters always call him by the
same name that he was called by when
two years old-Joseph, by Pharaoh's
gave to his family, who
lad Just arrived, the richest part of
1gypt-tbe Westchester farms or the
lancaster farms of the ancients.
Jacobs descendants rapidly multi
lied After awhile Egypt took turn
t famine, and those descendants of |
aeob, the ISraelites, came to great |
torehouse which Joseph had provided,
nd paid in money for corn. But af-
er awhile the money gave out and
hen they paid in cattle. After awhile |
he cattle were all in possession of the |
and then the Hebrews
,ought corn from the government by |
themselves as slaves.
SLAVERY IN EGYPT.
Then began slavery in Egypt. The
owned all the Hebrews.
And let modern lunatics, who in Amer
ca propose handing over telegraph
and railroads and other
.hings TO be run by government see
The folly of letting government get its
hand on everything. would rather
trust the people than any government
the United States ever had or will
have. Woe worth the day when legis-
lators and congresses and administra-
tons get possession of anything more
than it 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 anything but red
not thunderbolts
But through such unwise processes
srael was enslaved in Egypt, and th,
ong line of agonies began all up and ,
Town the Nile. Heavier and sharper
ell the lash, hungrier and ghastlier
grew the worlSmen, louder and longer
went up the prayer, until three millions
)f the enslaved were crying: "Ya, Al
ahl va, AIlahw o Godl o Godl
Where was help to come fromi No,
the throne, Pharaoh sat upon that.
Not the army, Pharaoh's officers com
that Not surrounding ma
tons, Pharaoh's threat made them
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 Thonoris, the daughter
Of Pharaoh, while in her bathing house
on tho banks of the Nile, has word
brought 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 an ordinary cradle attracts
smiling attention, but an infant in
cradle of papyrus rocking on a river
arouses not only admiration but curl,
osity. Who made that boati Who
made II watertight with bitumeni Who
launched iti Reckless of the eroco-
diles who lay basking themselves in the
sun, the maidens wade In and snatch
up the child, and first one carries him
and then another carries him, and all
the way up the bank he runs gantlet
of earesses, till Thonoris rushes out OF
the bathing house and says "Beauti-
full foundling, win adopt you as my
own You shall yet wear the Egyptian
crown and sit on the Egyptian throne. F"
mol mol mol lie Is 10 be the
emancipator Of the Hebrews Tell it
In all the brick kilns Tell Il among
all those who are writhing under tho
lash. Tell Il among all the castles of
Memphis aud Heliopolls and Zoan and
Thebes. Before him a sea will part.
On a mountain top. alone this one