"SINN FEIN."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 14 August 1907, Page 3

"SINN FEIN."

SIB T. ESMOXDE RENOUNCES HIS CONVERSION. ADHERES TO THE NATIONAL TARTY. Received 13th, 0.58 p.m. London, August 13. Sir T. Esmond?, addressing the North Wexford executive of the Irish League, explained his reasons for resigning. lie j spoke despairingly of Home Rule in V.a hands of English parties, and recmn- | mended Die uniting of nil creeds and ( classes in Ireland. After four hours' de-1 liberation, Sir T. Esmonde withdrew his Iresignation, renounced Sinn Fein, and! 'continues a member of the Parliamentary party.

(.Sir T. Kmiioiulc recently announced his resignation from tin- House of Commons, despairing of Tlie attainment of Home Rule l>y the present legislative means, anil intintate<l his adherence to the Sinn Kein movement. The Sinn Fein, "Ourselves Alone," movement enjoys the sympathy ami eoneurrenee of manv eminent personages, who heliove, no doubt with the most profound symrerily. that salvation for Ireland lies only in sh iking oft" the eomieetion, socially, ir :.i!ly and intelleelually, with the sister nation, tiie hope being that these severances will lie followed at no great distance by the sundering of the political bonds. The withdrawal of all the Nationalist niemiters of Parliament from Westminster is earnestly advocated by way of a preliminary, while the Irish people are urged to do without [everything iu the shape of the neeustsaries, and luxuries of life that come

I from English ports. The Dublin Weekly Freeman deals with the subject on the 2*Jth of June in an article of quite remarliable vigor and perspicacity, advocating a new "forward" movement on

the old, well-tried, and, all things considered, profitable lines. Turning to the Sinn Fein idea, our Dublin contemporary* says: "It is no new one. But the counsel, as fur as regards Parliamentary action, is a counsel of despair; and before accepting it the Irish people will ask themselves whether their Parliamentary representatives are really so impotent, whether Parliamentary action during the past eight-and-thirty years has lieen so barren, that as a weapon for the advancement of the National claim Parliamentary action should be abandoned." As an cdueuative agency Sinn Fein may be welcomed, but the Freeman's Journal thinks that the political battle must be fought out at Westminster. "Devolution," concludes the article in the Journal, "is not the ■last word to be spoken on the Irish national question: nor is there any reason to-day for despairing of methods which even even in the days of abandonment twelve years ago contained the promise and potency of local government and peasant ownership. Is the conquest of the Castle really as big a job as the conquest of the establishment, landlordism, and the grand juries!")