" Then he continued: The worker is unfairly treated. Whether it is
bolshevistic or not, Sinn Fein hopes to bring about a government in which
there will be juster conditions for the laboring classes.
CAUSE AND REMEDY OF SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
The empire does not consider the cause of revolt.[1] But the republic is
interested not only in the cause but also in the remedy.
Relief, the republic has said, must come through Sinn Fein--ourselves.
Neither the Sinn Fein leaders nor the people believe in the power of the
Irish vote in the British House of Commons. At the last general elections
the Sinn Fein party pledged that if its members were elected they would not
go to the British parliament, but would remain at home to form the Irish
parliament, the governing body of the Irish republic. Dodgers explaining
why Sinn Fein had decided to forego the House of Commons were widely
distributed. These read: "What good has parliamentarianism been? For
thirty-three years England has been considering Home Rule while Irish
members pleaded for it. But in three weeks the English parliament passed a
conscriptive act for Ireland, though the Irish party was solid against it."
On this platform, Sinn Fein won seventy-three out of 105 seats.
If Sinn Fein is to relieve the social conditions in Ireland, it must, say
Sinn Feiners, find out the cause.
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