The Bossier banner., 1892-01-07

| SldVeu lSfatl1teS passed into liberty,
and then the crystal gates of the sea
rolled shut against the Egyptian pur-
suers. 1t was about two o'clock in the
morning when the interlocked axle.
trees of the Egyptian chariots could not
move an inch either way. But the Red
sea unhitched the horses and unhel.
meted the warriors, and left the proud
host wreck on the Arabian sands
But before l forgot it / must put more
emphasis upon the fact that the last
outrage that resulted in the liberation
OF the Hebrews was their being COM
peeled to make bricks without straw.
That was the last straw that broke the
camefs back. God would allow the
despotism against His people to go no
further. Making bricks without straw
That oppression still goes on. De-
mand of your wife appropriate ward
robe and bountiful table without pro-
viding the means necessary. Bricks
without straw. Cities demanding in
the public school faithful and success
1ul instruction without giving the
teachers competent livelihood. Bricks
with straw. United States govern
ment demanding of senators and con-
gressmen at Washington full attend
ance to the interests of the peo-
pie, but on compensation which
may have done we'll enough
when twenty-five cents went as
far asa dollar now, but in these times
not sufficient to preserve. their infiu-
ence and respectability-bricks without
straw. In many parts of the land
churches demanding of pastors vigor-
Gus sermons and sympathetic service on
starvation salary, sanctified Ciceros on
four hundred dollars year-bricks
without straw. This is one reason WHY
there are so many poor bricks. In all
departments, bricks not even, or bricks
that crumble, or bricks that are not
bricks at all. Work adequately paid
for is worth more than work not paid
Tor. More straw and then better bricks.
But in all departments there are
Pharoahs! Sometimes capital a Pha-
roah' and sometimes labor a Pharoah.
When capital prospers, and makes
large percentage on its investment, and
declines to consider the needs of the
operatives, and treats them as so MANY
human machines, their nerves no more
than the bands on the factory wheels
then capital is a Pharoah. On the
other hand, when workmen, not re-
gardlng the anxieties and business
struggles of the firm employing them,
and at time when the firm are doing
their best to meet an important con.
tract and need all the hands busy to
accomplish it, at such time to have
his employees to make strike and put
their employers into extreme perplexity
and severe loss-then labor becomes a
Pharoah of the worst oppression, and
must look out for the judgments of |
God.
Some OF the worst of them are on a |
small scale in households as when a |
man, because his arm is strong and his
7olce loud, dominates his poor wife into
domestic slavery. There are thou
'ands OF such cases where the wife is a
lfe-time serf, her opinion disregarded,
Ter tastes insulted, and her existence a
Vretchedness, though the world NAV
lot know it. It is a Pharaoh that
ITS at the head of that table,
md Pharaoh that tyrannizes that
lome. There is no more abhorrent
'haraoh than r domestic Pharaoh,
mere are thousands of women to whom
eath is passage from Egypt to Canaan,
'ecause they get rid of cruel taskmas-
er What an accursed monster is that
nan who Keeps his wife in dread about
amlly expenses, and must be cautions
oW she introduces an article of millin-
ry, or womanly wardrobe without
umiliating consultation and apology.
'ho is that man acting so? For
TX months-ln order to win that wom-
IS heart, he sent her'every few davs
ouquet wound with white ribbon, and
endearlng couplet, and took her to
oncerts and theaters, and helped her
ito carriages as though she were n ,
and ran across the room to ,
lck up her pocket handkerchief with
lie speed of an antelope, and on the ,
arriage day promised all that the j
tnrgy required, saying Il will" with &
emphasis that excited the admiration ,
all spectators. But how he begrudges I
er two cents for a postage stamp. S
Id wonders why she rides across I
rooklyn bridge when the foot PASSAGE '
'sts nothing. He thinks now she is 7
Vtully plain, and he acts like the .
'vll, while he thunders out: 'Where {
d you get that new hat from? That's :
here my money goes Where's nv 8
Do you call that coffee, g
ldn't tell you to sew on that buttonp c
ant to see your mother, do YOU? You a
e always going to see your mother! i,
hat are you whimpering about? Il
urry up, now, and get nv slim
RS! Where's the newspaper?,, Il
he tone, the look, the impatience Il
the cruelty of a Pharaoh. That is "
nat gives so many women cowed- 1
wn look. Pharaoh! you had better
Se your iron heel off that woman's
ck or God will help you remove your ~
ell She says nothing For the sake =
avoiding a scandal she keeps silent. d
her tears and wrongs have gone =,
% record that you will have to =
et as certainly as Pharaoh had to i;
et hail, and lightning. and dark >;