The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-29
THE SINN FEINERS
Who They Are and What
 They Stand For.

The Sim Fein, the Irish revoIu- tionary society, at the door of which the uprising in Dublin has been laid, is of comparatively recent origin. It was not until 1907 that this latest outgrowth of the Young Ireland movement of 1S48 became of enough consequence to attract to itself any considerate notice, either in or out Of Ireland. Late in that same year a branch of the society was organized in New York, then, as now, second only to Dublin itself as storm center of Irish agitation.
 The name Sim Fefn is purely Gaelic, pronounced Shin Fain, and is the Gel tic equivalent for Ourselves, Alone, ' more sententiously expressive of the sentiment of Ireland for the Irish, with everything English left out. And, i'm deed, this is the handspring of the so- ciety its guiding principle and the basic idea on which it was founded and on which it has attained whatever momentum it has attained.
 A short time after it's organization the Sim Fein was described as an out break against orthodox natiOnaliSm, as represented by Redmond and Dillon, similar to that movement in the rev. oIutionary period of 1@4S against the home rule agitation conducted by Dan iel O'COnneII. S IT. 18&S the repealers were condemned Icy a faction as be- ing too conservative in me- hods and lacking in constructive ability, and out of this radical opposition sprang the Young Ireland party.
 Unlike the Sim Fein, whose lead CTS and organizers were men of ob- scurity and not distinguished in the councils of the nationalist party, from whose pacific methods they revolted, the moving spirits of the Young Ire- land party included some of the bright est minds of Ireland poets, histor- ians, writers and men of action as well. Among the leaders were such men of culture as Charles Gavan Duffy and William Smith O'Brien and men of more militant mood, like John Mitchell, grandfather of the present mayor of New York; Thomas Francis Meagher, afterward leader of the famous Irish brigade in the Civil War, and Thom- as Darcy McGee.
 Owes Origin to Protest.
 The Sim Fein owes it's origin to a protest among the intractable spirits in the nationalist party against home rule agitation as unduly deliberate and impracticable. Its organizers counted for their strength with the rising generation of Irish on their self-reHance, and from the very in ceptiOn of the movement was more openly seditious and disloyaI From the beginning of the movement and ever since the British government watched the. society, fearing it's in citements to insurrection and organ ized resistance to law. just as the Young Ireland movement eventually developed under the leadership of John Mitchell. How well founded were their fears the present rioting in Dub lin proves only too well.
 The origin of the Sim Fein is defin- itely traced to the influence and in- spiration of a series of articles by Ar thur Griffith on ttThe Ressurrection of Hungary which were subsequently reprinted and widely circulated in pop uIar pamphlet forTn throughout Ire land. MT. Grifhrh's articles drew a close parallel between the political condition of Ireland and Hungary, and the conclusion was strongly emphasiz- ed that Deak's movement for home rule in Hungary carried passive resist ance to the extremely of disloyaIty in the withdrawal of the par.lam entary delegation from Vienna. The paraI- Tel drawn in the articles pointed to the 'advisability of a similar movement by the Irish members ct W estnliDster.
 The entire argument ct the Griffith pamphlets was an unctluixccai mega ton of 1aI that O'Connen. Isaac Butt, Charles Stewart Ps4"neII, Redmond and Dillon attempted at Westminster. It was ,in fact a n1odus vivendi held