The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-11-05

| A'SAN AAA.A0S 80 WcAA ~ " ~ IN Our own
time modern traveller gives the
figures concerning re caitiva,ioa a
seventeen acres, the value Of the yield
OF the feid stated Ia plAssres:
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80 '..'.'-''.-.+-.......-..... sN<
Clear Proaaos.- -.......................-, rss
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Amount cleared BY the s.raer....... as.<
Or, as my authority declares, seventy
per cent of what eha Egyptian farmer
makes Is paid for taxes 20 the sowurn-
nent Now, that Is not % much tara
ton as assassination What think You
OF that, you who grcan under heavy
taxes in Americai l have heard that
in Egypt the working people have a
song Ike 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 viii punish them
well, who will punish them we'll" But
seventy per cent. of government tax Is
a mercy as compared To what the He
brew slaves suffered there In Blbl.
times. They got nothing but food
hardly fit for dog, and their clothing
WAS of one rag, and their roof a burn
Ing sky by day and the stars Of heaven
by night.
You say, why did they stand itr'
| Because they had to stand 1t. You
see, 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-I SUP
| pose the father and the brothers called
him Joe, for it does not make any d.t-
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 callod by when
two years old-Joseph, by Pharaoh's
permission, gave to his family, who
had just arrived, the richest part Of
Egypt-the Westchester farms or the
Lancaster farms Of the ancicnts.
Jacobs descendants rapidly multi
piled. After awhile Egypt took turn
at famine, and those descendants of
Jacob, the Israelites, came to great
storehouse which Joseph had provided,
and paid In money for corn. But at-
ter awhile 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 themselves as slaves.
SLAVERY IN EGYPT.
Then began slavery In Egypt The
government owned all the Hebrews
And let modern lunatics, who In Amer
lea propose handing over telegraph
companies and railroads and other
things 20 be run by government sse
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 lers-
lators and congresses and administra-
tions get possession Of anything more
than 1t is necessary for them 70 have
That would be the revival In this land
of that old Egyptian tyranny for which
God has never had anything but red
hot thunderbolts.
But through such unwise processes
Israel was enslaved In Egypt, and sh,'
long line of agonies began all up and
down the Nile. Heavier and sharper
fell the lash, hungfer and ghastlier
grew the workmen, louder and longer
went up the prayer, until three millions
of the enslaved were crying: ''Ya, Al
lsh Va, AIlahr" o Godl o Godl
| Where was help to come front Nos
the throne, Pharaoh sat upon that
Not the army, Pharaoh's officers COM
manded that. Not surrounding ma
tons, Pharaoh's threat made them
txernble. Not the gods Ammon and
Osiris or the goddess Isis, for Pharaoh
built their temples out of the sroans OF
this diabolical servitude. But one hot
day the Princess Thonoris, the daughter
Of Pharaoh, while In her bathing house
on the banks of the Nile, has word
brought her that there is a baby afoat
On the river In . cradle made out oi
big leaves.
Va COulSC LiJCEC - Aat W
and down the banks, for an ordinary
baby In an ordinary cradle attract.
smiling attention, but so infant In a
! cradle of papyrus rocking On a river
arouses not only admiration but curl
osity Who made that boatf Who
!. made 1t watertight with bitunenf Who
, launched it7 Reckless Of the c.oco
diles who lay basking themselves In the
Sun, the maidens wade Ia and snatch
up the child, and first one carries hin
and then another carries him, and al
: the way up the bank he run. q gantle
Of caresses, till Thonorb rushes out o.
the bathing house and says: .'Beauti
ful founding, 1 viii adopt you a. m,
own. You shall yet wear the Egyptar
crown and sit on the Egyptian throne.
MOL Nol MOI He Ii TO be tn
enancipator Of the Hebrews. Tell 4
In all the brick kilns. Tell It amoni
: all those who are writhing under tn
lash. Tell 1t among all the castles O
| Memphis and Heliopolis and Zoan sns
Thebes. Before him 9 sea will part
On q mountain Top, alone, Ane oa'
E viii receive from the Almighty q Law
, that is to be the foundation Of all goot
law while tbe world lasts. When he /
J dead, God will come down On Eebo en(
{ alone bury him, no man or woman o.
J angel worthy to attend the obseauies-
|, The child grows up and goes out ant
Z studies the horrors Of Egyptian oppres
sion and suppresses bis indignation, TO
2 the right time has not come, although
e once for a minute he let fly, and whei
- he saw taskmaster put the whip q
D the back Of a workman who was dom,
! lis best, and heard the poor renow cey
4 nd saw the blood squirt, Moses doubled
# ID his fist and struck him OF the TEN
e pie till the cruel villain rolled over n
g he sand exanimate and never swung
q .ha an aoz~;n Sarved him right