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New Zealand Tablet, 23 September 1920, Page 21

THE Till AD ON SINN FEIN. ‘‘Sinn Fein? Not much you don’t! My political opinions for print are the political opinions of whatever place I happen to be in. I have heard horrifying things about the leaders of the Sinn Fein movement. I have heard them described as ruffians, as bloodthirsty scoundrels, as insensate murderers, and all sorts of things like that. I have heard them depicted as truly horrible .beasts by bookmakers and barbers and drapers and milkmen and politicians and -other leaders of . the intellectual movement in countries outside Ireland. In Ireland I found that the Sinn Fein leaders seemed to be mostly university professors and idealistic writers and new-Irish poets and schoolmasters and philanthropists and patriot-priests. I don’t think that in any other country of the world at any other time, have bloody and evil-minded murderous villains camouflaged themselves. so perfectly. I .was told tOO , the n ? en prominent in the Sinn Fein movement are all besotted , papists, and I found them disgmsed as Protestants, and Agnostics' and all sorts of other things—-I found them zealously pretending a broad tolerance in matters of religion. The ways of the good God are inscrutable, or such desperate hypocrites as the Irish could never remain alive. “Funny old game life is, isn’t it?” ‘ - -