c, so un-Irishlike, so charged with heart, and a
heart for all humanity, even blind and stupid Englishmen, that everybody
was captured, bound with green withes, by his quiet, convincing
eloquence. The audience was melted into a whole, that soon forgot to
applaud, but just listened breathlessly.

It was on this occasion that I heard the name of Henry George mentioned
for the first time. Parnell quoted these words from "Progress and
Poverty":

Man is a land-animal. A land-animal can not live without land. All
that man produces comes from the land; all productive labor, in the
final analysis, consists in working up land, or materials drawn
from land, into such forms as fit them for the satisfaction of human
wants and desires. Man's very body is drawn from the land. Children
of the soil, we come from the land, and to the land we must return.
Take away from man all that belongs to the land, and what have you
but a disembodied spirit? Therefore, he who holds the land on which
and from which another man must live is that man's master; and the
man is his slave. The man who holds the land on which I must live,
can command me to life or to death just as absolutely as though I
were his chattel. Talk about abolishing slavery! We have not
abolished slavery; we have only abolished one rude form of
it--chattel slavery. There is a deeper and more insidious form, a
more cursed form yet before us to abolish, in this industrial
slavery that makes a man a virtual slave, while taunting him and
mocking him in the name of freedom.

We hear only a few speeches in a lifetime, possibly a scant
half-dozen--if you have heard that many you have done well. Wouldn't you
have liked to hear Webster's reply to Hayne, Wendell Phillips at Faneuil
Hall, Lincoln answering Douglas, or Ingersoll at the Soldiers' Reunion
at Indianapolis?

* * * * *

Captain O'Shea was the son of an Irish landlord, living in England on a
goodly allowance. He was a very fair specimen of the absentee. When
obscurity belched him forth in the year Eighteen Hundred Eighty, he was
a class D politician, who had evolved from soldiering through the
ambitious efforts of his wife. He held a petty office in the Colonial
Department, where the work was done by faithful clerks, grown gray in
the service.

He was a man without either morals or ideals. Careful search fails to
reveal a sing