"I advise you not to pay any heed at all
to them," Mr. Fox went on. "They are all of them of the most worthless character and absolutely contrary to the best public opinion." The large majority of Sinn Feiners in the United States, Mr. Fox next said, had never been in Ireland, and in their own country they "had done more to make democratic government a failure and had done less to make it a success than any other class of people." Sinn Fein was strong "only in the States where the Government had been corrupt," for the corruption was due to the domination of the Irish-American whether at Tammany Hall or in Boston or in Philadelphia or in Chicago. Mr. Fox is convinced that all the best people in America are in favour of a closer union of the English-speaking peoples of the world. But he asked of the British people that so long as the anti-British movement continued in America they should "exercise the same patient and kindly forbearance which had been already shown under provocation."
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