Life of Col. Jesse Harper of Danville, Ills.; Farm-Boy, Lawyer, Editor, Author, Orator, Scholar And Reformer
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She is dead. The song of her death floated on the air forty centuries agone, as fleeing slaves shouted : "O sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark seas, Jehovah has triumphed. His people are free." At that time one per cent of the people owned all the land, and ninety-nine per cent of the people owned none — were tenants, serfs and slaves. Then Egypt died, and her death-dirge rings yet in the ear of the world. Diod Sie. 1 175 says : "The whole of the land of Egypt is divided up and apportione...d to three classes — (i) to the priests, (2) to the king, (3) to the soldiers — scarcely a hundredth part to the people. The nation likewise dis- tinguished into three other classes or orders — (i) shep- herds, (2) husbandmen and (3) artificers. These take the land of the priest, king and soldier (sword bearer) on rent." There is land monopoly for you; the king, the priest 234 Life of Col. Jesse Harper. and soldier; about one per cent of the population are land- lords, the others their tenants.
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