The Irish standard., 1917-01-06
An N. P. IN REVOLT
Admits That the Party Is a Joke and
Deceived Country in Partition
Proposals.
DevIin, Tired Charlie Chaplin, Who
Wants to Repose in a Sham Par
lament With Redmond.

EuWafd McHuSn, M. r.. ana until
lately loyal and pledge bound men,
ber of the four hundred pound patriots,
writes as follows in the independent:
In the course of tlree-column ap-
probation of itself which the Freeman
publishes in Saturdays issue, it again
exhibits it's malice towards those many
Irishmen who instantly denounced the
now notorious proposals of last sum-
mer. Boosting of it's prowess in the
cause of unity, this journal, the or
gan OF faction which has destroyed
unity, refers to the "baser kind of
Nationalists." In this polite descrip-
ton suppose the chief factionist or
gans In Irish politics includes every
constitutionalist Nationalist who like
myself, refuses to accept as his first
article of faith that everything must
be believed which the editor of the
Freeman proposes to our belief, and
is to copy the headlines set by the
Pashas of the Party into resolutions
of unabated confidence.
1t is high time that the series of
libelous falsehoods which are being
disseminated with reference to the
'baser kind of Nationalists," should
be exposed. The falsehoods to which
I shall presently give categorical
denial are being actively disseminated
by those moral agriculturists who,
mindful of the fact that faith without
good works is unavailing, are laying
in store of unabated confidence reso.
lutions to their credit against the time
when Johnny comes marching home
again with Il sham Parliament in his
pocket.
In stating the views stated in the
next paragraph. use the first person
singular merely for the sake of brev-
ity. The things state believe to be
true of the vast majority of those Ma
tionalists who denounced the pro-
posals.
Need of Vigilance.
| am not a proGerman. l am not
Sim Feiner; | have no connection
nor have | ever had a connection with
any Sim Fein movement and, in fact.
know nothing whatever about Sim
Feinism. do not cherish these I'm
sane" ideals. My political faith is
and always has been, Home Rule to be
achieved by methods of constitutional
agitation. have had no communica-
tion whatever with either Mr.. Healy
or Mr.. O'Brien. have not the pleas
ure of acquaintance with either of
these gentlemen, and am sure that
neither of them has ever heard OF me.
The letters to the Irish Independent,
which you have been kind enough to
publish, have been published over my
bMli name, and were sent upon my
own initiative to the Office in the ordi-
nary way.
am glad to notice that in this
mornings issue you give deserved
prominence to a letter signed RED
Hand" in which he warns the people
of this country against the possibility
of an attempt to force upon it in the
name of a settlement the product of
some new political intrigue. Last sum-
mer's experience imposes upon US the
absolute necessity of vigilance. There
then arose. it would seem, things
which. in the contemplation of pOliti
clans, were Imperial necessities of the
most cogent character. There was the
necessity of saving Sir Edward Car
sons face for the nation. There was
the necessity of providing some situ-
alton in which Mr.. Lloyd-George. who
is an accomplished wizard, might ride
upon the broomstick of an added pop.
ularity into the most exalted office
in the State. after having filled every
other office which the Coalition Gov
ernment could give him. These neces-
stiles apparently still exist II the dag.
nosis of Red Hand" is right. But
there was another Imperial necessity
Of even greater importance. namely,
the necessity of providing that our
tired M. P.'s might find a merited re-
pose in a sham Parliament in which
they were to enter not as the result
Of an election by the electorate but
by means of a kind of hop.step.and.
leap from Westminster.
A "sham Parliament"
It was perfectly obvious to any one
having the smallest acquaintance with
The politics Of the suspensory period
hat the purpose and effect Of the sham