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This undercurrent of feeling against this bill has been furthered by a group of Faculty members and undergraduates of the University. The Mason Resolution may be construed as an endorsement by the United States Congress of the Sinn Fein effort to create an Irish Republic in the British Empire and it makes imminent a rupture between Great Britain and the United States...
This movement to assist in the defeat of the Mason Bill in Congress is fostered by a group of Faculty members and undergraduates of the University. The Mason Resolution may be construed as an endorsement by the United States Congress of the Sinn Fein effort to create an Irish Republic in the British Empire, and it makes imminent a rupture between Great Britain and the United States...
...quite sure what remedies Macbeth or Hamlet would suggest for our present maladies. With all their excellent qualities, neither of those gentlemen would be suited to express an intelligent opinion on Prohibition, or the Overalls Movement, or Sinn Fein. If such afflictions as these had been added to their lot, we are confident that neither of them would have succeeded in surviving beyond Act Three...
...Prime Minister's scheme hardly goes far enough. Sinn Fein agitators claim-and with a fair degree of reason-that this last bill is only a sham. It is certain enough that under its provisions neither the two divided legislatures, nor the single united one, are entrusted with anything like a sufficient degree of responsibility. Of the total amount of the Irish revenues, Ireland has control of less than one tenth. The police, always such a fertile source of grievance, remains in English hands. These are but two instances of how what might appear at first to be a real...
...already, this new one is clearly forcing itself upon us more and more every day--what shall be our relation with Great Britain? Mr. Hearst could probably answer in a few brief, pointed, not altogether nice remarks. His opinion would be vociferously seconded by many ardent supporters of Sinn Fein.--We ought not to declare war right off, perhaps; but we should certainly make ready for war. And when we do open hostilities against the rest of the English-speaking world--My! What a licking we will give them...