In any case it seems to rut that the complaints
of those whose houses have been raided by the Government are quite dispropor- tionate to the injury done. We have 'read in the Daily News, for example, articles by Mr. Erskine Childers in which he com- plains of the bad manners of the probably inexperienced officers who raided his house. He was particularly annoyed at the conduct of one young gentleman who threw cigarette-ash upon the drawing-room floor. This was abominable, no doubt, but if such conduct be abominable what word are we to use to describe the suffering and misery of innumerable innocent families who go to bed every night knowing that masked and armed Sims Feiners may .invade the house at any moment, may terrorize and ill-treat the occupants, and perhaps shoot one or two of them in connexion with some imaginary grievance about the holding of land ?
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