The Irish standard., 1907-01-19
New League Of Sim Fem, by Boycott Of Eng.
lish Tongue and Trade, is Working =
Irish Re generation.
Many Organizations and Influences All Work.
ing Toward the One End Of Max
ing Ireland Irish.

make for initiative and seIf-indspsnd>
ence and intensity tho sense Of oon-
srious and constructive nationality.
And the political counterpart to these
movements "Sinn Fein"-pronounccA
shinn fain-"ourselves alone.'' sinR
Fein is the most compact and tho bold-
est expression in the political sphere
of all the forces that are helping on
the national regeneration Of Ireland.
I know perfectly we'll that only sins
plcton would dogmatize or rrophesy
about anything Irish. But I am will.
ing to be Il simpleton for the pleasure
for winning Irish independence the
Sim Fein policy is by far the most
efficient instrument that has yet been
dAvised. easy and. flexible to WELD,
most bafflingly dif1cult to counter, ,oe
to beat down, and that il ireland Wee
to. adopt IT and stand by it.alL efettivs
British rule would disappear from the
country in less than twenty years
The Sim F'cin pol;cy is neither more =
nor less than the Hungarian policy OF
Deak. and that policy may best be de-
scribed as one OF national boycott.
Dcak simply took his stand on the con-
stitution OF 1S4S. The fact that the
Austrians had abolished it and were
governing Hungary as though it haF.-
never existed did not trouble him fc
a moment He declared that the Hum
sarian constitution could only be done
away with by and with the consent of
the Hungarian people. In the absence
of that consent all Austrian laws nnado
for Hungary lnd all Austrian officials :
appointed to enforce them were ille-
gal and could not be recognized. Ne
organized against them a vast rneve-
ment of passive resistance. lie er-
dcred that no taxes should bo paid
unless levied by the authority Of the
Hungarian parliament. He refused t0
send Hungarian representatives to tho
imperial parliament at Vienna. He built
up a legal, educational and adminis-
trative system among the people t!efl-
selves. And the people backed him
up in every way. Aided By two for.
eign wars, they reduced Austrian rule
in Hungary to pacific, but none tile
less impossible, anarchy. In less than
twenty years the struggle was over and
tlo .;o l,rJ ,,,o,,
That is the working III ,del Of the
Sim F'cin policy, and in a pamphlet
i, called The Resurrection Of Hungary"
which has been sold throughout tho
length and breadth Of Ireland, it's au-
thors have skillfully applied it TO the
Irish question. They found their con-
stitutional case OH the remuneration act
OF 1888. BY that act "the said right
claimed by Ireland to be bound only
by laws enacted by his majesty and
the parliament is hereby declared to be
established and ascertained forever alid
shall at no time hereafter be ques-
toned or questionable" That gives
the Sim Feiners all they need. IT
enables them to deny the validity ~
the act Of union. 1.-The members OF the
Irish parliament they say, "had no,
legal power to terminate the existence
of that parliament. They were in law
simply trustees for the time being of a
power proceeding from the people" 40
lapse Of time, no ignorant acquies-i
I cence can render an illegality legal. !.
The act Of 1883 is still the law Of the
land.
With this as their starting point tho
Sim F'einers proceed to lay down thsi?
first principles of action. 1t is simple,
sumcient and shatterins. They hold
that no Irishrnan should sit in the
British parliament. On two grounds.
The first is that the presence OF the
nationalist NJ. P.'s at Westminster is a |
recognition Of the usurped authority
Of a foreign assembly to make laws
to bind the people Of Ireland. Tie