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    The Issue The Case for Sinn Fein
    The Issue The Case for Sinn Fein
    The Issue The Case for Sinn Fein
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    The Issue The Case for Sinn Fein

    By Lector

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Issue The Case for Sinn Fein - Lector

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      Title: The Issue

      The Case for Sinn Fein

      Author: Lector

      Release Date: July 25, 2011 [EBook #36842]

      Language: English

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      NEW IRELAND PAMPHLETS · NUMBER THREE

      PRICE TWOPENCE

      THE

      ISSUE

      The Case for Sinn Fein

      BY

      LECTOR

      AS PASSED BY CENSOR.

      NEW IRELAND PUBLISHING COMPANY, Limited

      13 FLEET STREET, DUBLIN

      1918

      THE ISSUE

      INDEPENDENCE.

      Does Ireland wish to be free? Do we alone among the ancient Nations of Europe desire to remain slaves? That, and that alone, is the question which every Irish elector has now to answer. Let us put everything else out of our minds as irrelevant claptrap. Let nothing distract us from this single issue of Liberty. We must turn a deaf ear to sentimental whining about what this or that man did, his length of service, his fighting on the floor of the House, and so on. Whatever may have been done in the way of small doles, petty grants, and big talk, the fact is that we are not Free and the issue is, Do we want to be Free?

      Why should we be afraid of Freedom? Would any sane adult voluntarily prefer to be a slave, to be completely in the control and power of another? Men do not willingly walk into jail; why, then, should a whole people? The men who are afraid of national liberty are unworthy even of personal liberty; they are the victims of that slave mentality which English coercion and corruption have striven to create in Ireland. When Mr. John Dillon, grown tremulous and garrulous and feeble, asked for a national convention this autumn to definitely forswear an Irish Republic, he was asking Ireland to commit an act of national apostasy and suicide. Would you definitely forswear your personal freedom? Will Mr. John Dillon hand his cheque-book and property over to some stranger and indenture himself as a serf or an idiot? When he does, but not till then, we shall believe that the Irish Nation is capable of sentencing itself cheerfully to penal servitude for all eternity.

      It was not always thus. I say deliberately, said Mr. John Dillon at Moville in 1904, that I should never have dedicated my life as I have done to this great struggle, if I did not see at the end of it the crowning and consummation of our work—A FREE AND INDEPENDENT IRELAND. It is sad that, fourteen years later, when the end is in sight, Mr. Dillon should be found a recreant and

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