VON SCHWEINHUND RECEIVES THE ORDER OF THE BOOT

New Zealand Tablet, 8 April 1920, Page 26

VON SCHWEINHUND RECEIVES THE ORDER OF THE BOOT

Last week we devoted a little space to the latest exhibition of duplicity and Hunnishness of Muckpherson. Even England could not stand his awful exposure in the House of Commons; even England could not stomach a publicly exposed prevaricator.. Hence we were not astonished to read on Saturday evening a quiet little cablegram to the effect that Muck had been kicked out of office to be replaced by another nonentity. We weep not over his departure. He will be duly promoted—as were the Ulster pro-Germans. But we reflect on all he did,jind we say that if any man wants proof that the Sinn Feiners do not shoot from behind hedges, proof abounds in the fact that even the Scottish savage went from Ireland alive. No Sinn Feiner would waste powder on him or on any of the gang associated with him. So, then, exit von Schweinhund. His future concerns not us, but his masters. Mr. George has always suitable work for such tools. We notice that poor Mr. George has been whining through the cables over his fool Home Rule Bill. Has he forgotten his little war for the right of self-deter-mination ? The Irish people have not. And that is the answer to all his Welsh rhetoric. Sinn Fein has greased a flagstaff in Queenstown. Lloyd George might as well try to climb it as to delude again the people he betrayed.