We are bound to say that the callousness with which
the Irish Nationalist press and the Nationalist members sought to divert attention from the " killing " of the officers by exagger- ating and distorting the affray at Croke Park seems to us almost as horrible as the murders themselves. We are not surprised that the Spanish-American leader of Sinn Fein, who is living comfortably in America on the subscriptions of his dupes, should publicly declare that the murders of the officers were justifiable. But those credulous people who talk of " moderate " Nationalist opinion as a real force in Ireland should be disabused by the attitude of the Freeman's Journal, which referred to the foul murders as" shootings" and had not a word to say in deprecation of the crime, and by Mr. Devlin's pitiful exhibition in the House. The Labour Party showed a truer sense of what was fitting by postponing its " raise:on " to Ireland and denouncing the murder gang in plain terms.
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