THE IRISH PROBLEM.

Northern Advocate, 9 November 1918, Page 4

THE IRISH PROBLEM.

SINN FEIN AND DISSENSION,

The Very Rev. Canon Walsh, P.P., | presiding at a meeting of the Crossabeg and Ballymurn (Wexford) branch of the United Irish League (reports the Cork "Examiner"), said the prospect before the country was a gloomy one, as the criminal lunacy of Sinn Fein was turning all Ireland's friends against her. By insulting and trampling upon the American flag and cheering for the Kaiser, the i unruly Sinn Fein faction was turning the French Republic, the American nation, and the English democracy into bitter 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 to the antics of the miserable faction, whose record so far was one of dissension, disruption and disaster. Sinn Fein was sowing the seeds of animosity not only among the Irish themselves, but between England and Ireland, and blasting the cordial relations which the noble work of the brothers Redmond had brought about. The democracy of England was favourably disposed towards Irishmen, ad was willing to do them justice, but they would never consent to the >heer lunacy of total separation, and until the evil spirit of Sinn Fein was banished from the land Ireland ••ould labour under the yoke of op-■-•>ssion. Resolutions were passed condemning the latest German outrage in murdering' innocent fishermen off the Galway coast; protesting against any nart of the money collected to combat conscription being applied to any other political purpose, as "'nimv tenths of the subscribers 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 n "eeder of Sinn Fein."