Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-11-07
. ACCOMAC C. Il, VA SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1891


Amount cleared by the fnrmer......:.. sl5N
Or as my authority declares, seventy
per cent. of what the Egyptian Turner
makes is paid for taxes TO tile govern
ment Now, that is not SO much taxa
ton as assassination. What think you
of that, you WHO groan under heavy
taxes in American have heard that
in Egypt the working people have a
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
well, wm will punish them we'll" But
seventy per cent. OF government tax is
mercy as compared to what the He
brew slaves suffered there in Bible
times They got nothing but food
hardly fit for a dog, and their clothing
was Of one rag, and 1theirroof q burn
Ing sky by day andsthe stars ofsheayen
.bysnight: s;s.i
Y on say, Why did they stand ita2'''
Because they had9to stand it. You
see, along back in the worlds 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 sup
pose the father and the brothers called
him Joe, for it does not make any diff
ference how much boy is advanced
in worldly success, his father and broth
ers and sisters always call him by the
same name that lie was called 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 ancients.
jacobs descendants rapidly multi
piled. After awhile Egypt took turn
ct famine, and those descendants of
Jacob, tile IsraeIites, came to q great
storehouse which Joseph had provided,
md paid in money for corn. But af-
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 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
lave. Woe worth the day when legis-
.lators and congresses and admin;stra-
tions 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
hot tllunderbolts.
But through. such unwise processes
Israel was enslaxed in Egypt, and th.,
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 three millions
OF the enslaved were crying; "Ya, AL
lalll va, Allahr o Godl 0 Godl
Where was help to come from9 Not
the throne, Pharaoh sat upon that.
Not the army, Pharaoh's officers COM
manded that. Not surrounding ma
tons, Pharaoh's threat made them
tremble. Not the gods Ammon and
Osiris or the goddess Isis, for Pharaoh
built tlleir 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 the banks of the Nile, has word
brought her that there is baby afloat
on the river in q 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 q
cradle of papyrus rocking on river
arouses not only admiration but Curl
osity. Who made that boat2: Who
made it watertight with bitumen?- Who
launched it2 Reckless of the croco-
diles who lay basking themselves in the
sun, the lnaidens wade in and snatch
up the child, and first one carries him
and then another carries him, and all
the way up the bank lie runs u gantlet
of caresses, till Thonoris rushes out OF
the bathing. house and says: "Beauti-
full founding, will adopt you as my
own. You shall yet wear the Egyptian
crown and sit onthe Egyptian throne. "
No! Mol Mol He is to be the
emancipation of the Hebrews Tell it
in all the brick kilns. Tell it among
all those who are writhing under the
lash. Tell it among all the castles OF
Memphis and Heliopolis and zoan and
Thebes. Before him sea will part.
On a mountain 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 lie is
dead, God will come down on Nebo and
oIono bnrv 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 oppres-
sion and suppresses his indignation, for
the right time has not come, although
once for minute he let fly, and when
be saw tass. Master put the whip on
the back of a arklnan who was doing
his best, and e. rd the poor fellow cry
and saw the blood squirt, Moses doubled
ap his fist and struck him on the tell