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 deavour to educate the young Nationalist mind. Finally, however, he was deemed too outspoken, and he left the editor's chair with regret.

"If one had taken the precaution to have a father who had accumulated sufficient wealth," he wrote once, "to allow his sons the caviare of candour, nothing would be more entertaining than starting a paper."

In 1906 an opportunity was offered to him of entering Parliament. It was his chance, but it was a fighting chance. After the most strenuous of fights, he was returned as Parliamentary representative for East Tyrone. His majority was only sixteen, and it may be fairly said that only he could have won and held that seat in the Nationalist interest.

In the autumn of 1906 he went with Mr. Hazleton to America on a Home Rule Mission. His oratorical gifts were much appreciated there, and his six months' tour of the States was a fine experience, if a physically trying one. He liked America, with her love of freedom and her genial, hospitable ways, and always hoped again to "cross the pond."

I remember a few sayings which he brought back from America which he regarded as typical of American humour—such as "I don't know where I am going, but I am on my way," and "We trust in God; all others pay cash."

In 1908 he translated M. Dubois' Contemporary