The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-11-12

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Expense 1881
Clear produce...... 8O83
4O5
Amount cleared by the farmer........ 3153
Or. as my authority declares, 10
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 do you
think of that? You who groan under
heavy taxes of America? 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
we'll, who will punish them WE'LL" But
70 percent Of government tax in
Egypt is mercy as compared to what
the Hebrew slaves suffered there in
Bible times. They got nothing but
food hardly fit for a dog, and their
clothing was Of one rag, and their roof
burning sky by day and the stars of
heaven by night. Jacobs descendants
rapidly multiplied After while
Egypt took a turn at famine land
those descendants of Jacob, the Israel
ties, cameto a great storehouse which
Joseph had provided, and paid in
money for corn. But after while 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 them
selves as slaves.
Then began
SLAVERY IN EGYPT.
The government owned all the He
brews. Where was help to come
from? Not the throne, Pharaoh sat
upon that. Not the army, Pharaoh's
officers commanded that. Not sur
rounding 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 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 to her that there is baby
afoat 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 at
tention, but an infant in a
cradle of papyrus rocking on
river arouses not only ad-
miration but curiosity. Who made
| that boat? Who made it water tight
with bitumen? Who launched it?
Reckless OF the crocodilies who lay
basking themselves in the sun, the
maidens wade in and snatch up the
child, and first one carries him,
then another carries him, and
all the way up the bank :: e runs a
gauntlet OF caresses, till I'honoris
PUSHES out Of the bathing hot and
says: Beautiful founding, will
adopt you as my own. You hall
yet wear the Egyptian crown and sit
on the Egyptian throne. No! No!
No! He is to be the emancipation of
the Hebrews.
To the Egyptians the Nile was a
deity, It's waters were then as now
natural beverage of all the earth.
We have no such love for the Hud-
son, and Germans have no such love
| for the Rhine. and Russians have no
such love for the Volga, as the
Egyptians have love for the Nile But
one day when Pharaoh comes down
this river, Moses takes a stick and
they turn into the gore OF a slaughter
house. and through the sluices and
fsh-ponds the incarnadined LIQUID
backs up into the land and the
malodor whelms everything from
mud novels to thronerroom Then
came the frogs with horrible croak all
over everything. Then this people,
clearly almost to fastidiousness,
were infested with insects that belong
to the filthy and unkempt, and the
air buzzed and buzzed with flies, and
then the distemper started COWS to
believing, and horses to neighing, and
camels to groaning as they rolled
over and expired. And then boils,
one of which will put a man in wretch
edness, came in clusters from the top
of the head to the sole of the foot.
And then the clouds dropped hail and
| lightning. And then the locusts came
Inc swarms OF them, worse then the
grasshoppers ever were in Kansas,
and then darkness dropped for three
days SO that the people could not
see their hands before their face, great
surges of midnight covering them.
And last OF all, on the night of the
18th of April, about eighteen hundred
years before Christ H'
| THE DESTROYING ANGEL E#..a
sweeps past; and hear it all night
long, the flap! flap! flap! Of his awful
wings until Egypt rolled on, great
hearse, the eldest child dead in every
Egyptian home. The eldest son Of
Pharaoh expired that night in the
palace and along the streets OF Mem
phis and Heliopolis and all up and
down the Nile there was a funeral
| wall that would have rent the fold of
the unnatural darkness if 1T had not
been impenetrable.
The Israelitish homes, however,
| were untouched. But these homes
were full of preparation, for now is
your chance, 0 We wronged Hebrews!
Snatch up what pieces OF food you
can and to the desert! It's simoons
are better than the bondage you have
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