SINN FEIN AND DISSENSION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1899, 5 November 1918, Page 4

SINN FEIN AND DISSENSION.

The 'Very Rev. Canon Walsh, P.P., presiding at a meeting of the Crossaheg and Ballymurn (Wexford) branch of the United Irish League (reports the Cork Examiner of June 22nd), said the prospect before the country was a gloomy one, as the criminal lunacy of Sum Fein was turning all Ireland's friends against her. By insulting and trampling upon (lie American Hag and cheer-, ing the Kaiser, the unruly Sinn Fein faction was turning the French Republic, the American nation, and the English democracy into hitter enemies of Ireland. Rather than gain independence for Ireland, the republicans were more likely to gain 20 years’ coercion and martial law if any general support were accorded by Irishmen fo the antics of the miserable faction, whose record so far was one of dissension, disruption and disaster, Sinn Fein was sowing (he seeds of animosity not only among the Irish themselves, but between England and Ireland, and blasting the cordial relations which the noble Avork of the brothers Redmond had brought about. The democracy of England was favourably disposed towards Irishmen, and Avas Aviiling to do them justice, but they Avould never consent to the sheer lunacy of total separation, and until thoevil spirit of Einn Fein avus banished from the land Ireland Avould labour under the yoke of oppression. Resolutions were passed condemning the latest German outrage in murdering seven innocent fishermen oft the Galway coast; protesting against any pari of the money colledetl to combat conscription being applied to any other political purpose, as “ninc-tcnlh of the sub-, scribcrs in that parish would not contribute one penny towards the fund if it: were to be employed in subsidising faction and disruption,” and denouncing the Gaelic League, as “the Gaelic League is a feeder of Sinn Fein.”