SINN FEIN BLUNDERS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3437, 17 March 1920, Page 5

SINN FEIN BLUNDERS.

COLONEL LYNCH ON A REAL

IRISH SE'I"I‘LEI\«II<3N'I‘.

Colonel Arthur Lynch, former member of P:).l‘lia:1ll.CIll and of Boer War fame, addressed :1 meeting of Irish Republican s-yrnpathisers in New York. He denounced -the Sinn Fein movement as futile and harmful to Ireland, and prophesied that Ireland would eventually be independent, but added: “Your physical force is inadequate at present. If all Ireland were Sinn Fein and were armed, it would even then be impossible to win by force. England controls the seas, and her navy could bombard Irish ports from out of sight of land. Don ’t, delude yourself by becoming intoxicated through your emotions. I fought the Irish cause agaiiist England during the Boer War, when the odds were vastly more favourable than they are now. and 1 lost. Sinn Fein cannot win by'its present methods. A carefully thought-out plan is neeeSsal'y. while the Sinn Feiners have no plan except violence and rebellion. In the ;~:eco.nd place no solution of lhe Irish problem can be good which is not fair to Ulster. Too much of the reli~ gious «‘=lma:<:iit lms been lirought into the Irish question. Take that Hill, and we lmxe gone far towards solving the ‘;)rol_)lml1. VVO <.lis:p:ll'age our u:-mse l>_\' E,ii;_;otry and religions f:rn.ati«-ism. llow many of the Sinn Fein leatlers mxe Protestants?"