Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1915-01-21
CHAPTER. I

The Irish Agitater and Anasia.
%AITH, there's NO man .ays
moro and knows less than yer.
sell. I'm thinkin'."
About Ireland. yer river
"And everything else. Nj. o'con,
therf's =, !.
les both. Mr. O;oonnell."
"surs its the good Judge 70 must be
OF Ignorance, Father Cahill.''
And what might that manef"
"Ye live 80 much with It, father"
I'm lookin' at It and listenin' to It
now, Frank O'Connell."
Then It's miracle has happened.
father. TO see and hear oneself at
the same time is indade q miracls."
Don't provoke the man OF Gody
mot for the wurrld.'' replied the 9th.
or meekly, "bein' mesef child OF ga
tan"
"And that's what yc are. And ye'd
have others like yerself. But ye wort
whilo I've tongue in me head and n
sthrong stick In me hand.
O'COnnell looked at him with a mis-
chievous twinkle in his blue-gray eyes:
Yer eloquence seems to made some.
thin to back It up, I'm thinkin'."
Father Cahill breathed hard. He
was splendid type Of the Irish parish
priest Of the old school. Gifted with
vivid power Of eloquence as preach
er and heart as tender as a woman y
toward the poor and thc Nsetched, he
had been for many yea.s idolized by
the whole community of tl,r village Of
NJ. In County Glare. But OF late there
was q growing feeling of discomfort
among the younger generation. They
lacked the respect their elders so will
fngly gave. They asked questions in
stead Of answering them. They be-
gan to throw Themselves. against Fa-
ther Cahill's express wishes and COM
mands. into the fight for homo rule
under the mastery stAtesmanship OF
Charles Stuart Parnell. Already inofe
than one prominent speaker had coma
into the little village and sown DC
seeds of temporal and spiritual unreGl.
Father Cahill opposed these men 10
the utmost of his power. He saw. as
so many farsighted priests did, the
legacy of bloodshed and desolatiOn
that would follow any direct action by
the Irish against the British govern
ment Though the blood Of the patriot
beat In Father Cahilps veins, the well
being of the people who had grown up
with him was near to his heart. He
was their priest and he could not bear
to think OF men he had known as chill.
dren being beaten and MANNED by con-
stabulary and sent to prison afterward
In the fight for self government.
To his horror that day he met Frank
Owen O'Connell. one Of the best
known Of all the younger agitators. In
the main street Of the little village.
O'Connells backsliding had been one
Of Father Cahill's bitterest regrets.
He had closed O'Connell's fathers
eyes in death and had taken care of
the boy as well as he could. But at
the age Of fifteen the youth left the
village that had 80 many wretched
memories Of hardship and struggle and
worked his way to Dublin. 1t was
many years before Father Cahill heard
Of him again. He had developed
meanwhile into one Of the most daring
of all the fervid speakers in the sacred
cause Of Irish liberty.
And Father Cahill was going to hear
from Frank Owen O'Connell again,
though little did he reckon on the i'm
portance that the present young and
comparatively untutored reformer
would achieve.
Wilberforce KingSnorth, wealthy,
lmperious Dnsikhman. left thrss chtl.
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