Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-09-03
THEGAMBLERSIN GRAIN.
DR.. TALMAoE PoURs SOME HOT
SHOT AT THEM.
The Present Prosperity Might Re
spoiled by the Speculators--Tbc
United States Is Otherwise Like
the Egypt of Old.

| BROOKLYN, n. Y, Aug. 80, ls9i.-Tht
cabled reports of meagre harvests il
| Europe, and the memory of the vast
! crops of ripening grain which DIR. Tai
mage saw during his recent tour in
| the West, have combined to turn his
thoughts back to that patriarchal time
when all the world sent to Egypt &c
buy corn and to suggest a gospel les
son. His text is Genesis 1873. "Ye
shall not see my face, except your
brother be with you.
| This summer, having crossed eigh-
teen of the United States, North,
| South, East and West, have to report
| the mightiest harvests that this coun,
try, or any other country, ever reaped.
! If the grain gamblers do not somehow
wreck these harvests, we are about to
enter upon the grandest scene OF
prosperity that America has
ever witnessed. But while this is
so in our own country, on the other
side of the Atlantic there are nations
threatened with famine, and the most
dismal cry that is ever heard will fear
be uttcred-the cry for bread. l pray
God that the contrast between our
prosp ,rity and their want may not be
as sharp as in the lands referred to by
my text. There was nothing to eat.
Plenty of corn in Egypt, but
ghastly famine in Canaan. The cattle
moaning in the stall. Men, women
and children awfully white with
hunger. Not the failing of one crop
for one summer, but the failing of all
the crops for seven years. A nation
dying for lack of that which is so com
mon on your table, and SO little ap-
preciated; the product of harvest field,
and grist-mill, and oven; the price
of sweat, and anxiety, and struggle,
-brcadl Jacob the father, has the
last report from the flour-bin, and he
finds that everything is out; and he says
to his sons: Boys, hook up the wag-
ons and start for Egypt, and get us
there was a great corn crib in Egypt
The people of Egypt have been largely
taxed in all ages, at the present time
paying between seventy and eighty
per cent of their products to the gov
eminent. No wonder in that time
they had a large corn-crib, and it was
full. To that crib they came from the
regions around about--those who were
lull Spilt paying lOl ttItl III
money. when the money was exhausted,
paying for the corn in sheep and cattle
and horses and camelS; and when they
were exhausted, then selling their own
bodies and their families into slavery
The morning for starting ont on the
crusade has arrived. ia oh gets his
family up very early. But before the
elder sons start they say something
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from head to foot, and burst into tears
The fact was. that these elder sons had
once before been in Egypt to get corn
and they had been treated somewhat
roughly. the lord of the corn-crib sup
/ plying them with corn, but saying at
/ the close OF the interview: Now. You
need not come back mere for any more
. rorn unless you bring something better
/ than mOnev-even your Younger broth
! sr Ben iamin." All BeniamIn-a name
| suggestive of all tenderness The
! gother had died at the birth of that
| son spirit coming and another spirit
! going and the very thought of parting
with benjamin must have been heart
break. The keeper of this corn crib,
nevertheless, says to these older sons:
There is no need of your coming here
my more for corn unless YOU bring
Ben iamin, your father darling" Now
Jacob and his family very much needed
bread; but what struggle it
would be to give up this son.
The Orientals are very demon >trative in
their grief, and hear the Outwailing
IF the father as these older sons Keep
relterating in his ears the announce
nent of the Egyptian lord, "Ye shall
not see my fac unless your brother
De with you" Why did you tell them
you had n brother?" said the old
man. complaining and Gliding them.
why, father" they said, he asked
is all about our family, and
we had no idea he would make any
such demand upon us as he has made
NO use of asking me, said the father,
II can not, ] will not, give up Benja-
min The fact was that the old man
lad lost children; and when there has
been bereavement in household. and
child taken, it makes the other chill
dren IN the household more precious.
So the day for departure WAS ad
iourned, and adjourned, and adj
iourn d. Still the horrors OF
the famine increased, and louder
moanet the cattle, and wider
open cracked the earth, anG
more pallid became the checks,
until Jacob, in despair, cried out to hi,
sons, Take benjamin and be off. The
older sons tried to cheer up theil
father. They said: ave have strong
arms and stout heart, and no harm
will come to BENJAMIN. Well see thai
he gets back again" "Farewell' sale
the young men to the father, in tone
of assumed good cheer. "F-a-r-c
we'll" said the old man; for tina
word has more quavers in it when pro
nounced by the aged than by the
young.
Well, the bread party-the breaC
embassy up in front of the
corn-crib of Egypt. These corn-crib.
are filed with wheat, and barley, anC
corn in the huSk, for those who have
travelled in Canaan and Egypt know
that there is corn there corresponding
with our indian maize. lfuzza. tn,
journey Is ended The lord of tn,
corn-crib, who is a so the Prime Min
lister, comes down to these arrived
travellers, and says: "Dine with IN
to-day. How IS your father? is thi
benjamin, the younger brother who's
presence | demanded?' The traveller
are introduced into the palace. The
are worn and bedusted of the way: an
servants come in with a basin of water i
one hand and towel in the other, an
kneel down before these newly-arrive
; travellers, washing off the dust of tn
way. The butchers, and poultcrers
and caterers of the Prime Minister, pre-
pare the repast. The guest5 seate
: in small groups, two or three at
table. the food on a trav; all tn
luXuries from imperial gardens, an
orchards, and aquariums, and aviarie
are brought there. and ar
filling chalice and platter. Now is tn
: time for this Prime Minister. if h
has a grudge against BENJAMIN, t,
| show it. Will he kill him, now tina
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