CLOVEN HOOF AND FEET OF CLAY.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4577, 1 May 1922, Page 2

CLOVEN HOOF AND FEET OF CLAY.

There is ono,great advantage to the world in general and the Irish peoplo in particular at home and abroad in the open rupture and the exchange of loft-handed compliments in the session of Parliament which has just reopened in Dublin. That advantage is the enlightenment of the peoplo, and the exposure of the cloven hoof of the enemy in £he midst. It is for tho common good that the feet of clay of worthless (idols should be exposed to tho public gaze. Thus, Premier Collins is doing better work for the commonweal of Ireland than he wots of when he discloses the feecret hostilities of De Valera and Erskine Childers. The latter was undoubtedly a spy in the pay of England during the war period, just as certainly as he is a renegade Englishman to-day, turning and biting both hancls that fed him and gave him his opportunities to make or break himself in life. It is also to be remarked how strange it is that Irishmen are so contradictory. They profess the greatost hatred of all foreigners—yet during the war tho South erntirs went hand in hand with Germany to » help destroy England; they make an idol of a Spaniard (Do Valera) as'their misleader, and they give one of their most prominent places in thnir rebel executive to a very clover and intriguing Englishman (Childers). The more hearted the exposures Premier Collins is able and willing to make regarding tho two-facedncss of De Valera and Childers, the more quickly will the Dail Eireahn be purgod of its evil influences, and the more quickly will Ireland get hack to the serious business of Home Itule and good goyernnientr