that function can be performed much more effectively by representatives living and meeting in Ireland itself. Sinn Fein thus scores two points against the Parliamentarian policy, that it is a betrayal of Ireland's case, and that it is totally ineffective. But it is not content with that. It scores yet another point. Not alone is the Parliamentarian policy totally ineffective, but it is hurtful to the Nation. It has turned the imagination of the people away from Ireland towards parliamentary happenings in a foreign Parliament: it has kept their minds on the one phase of activity, the oratorical phase, while language, traditions, and industries vanished from the land, while at every national artery English civilisation entered: it has gradually whittled down the national demand, as the Party gradually became less Irish and more English, until it was ready to accept any shameful settlement as a just settlement: it has been a force, unconscious perhaps but powerful, towards making London the capital of Ireland: under its sway in Ireland the population of Ireland has steadily decreased and the taxation of Ireland has as steadily increased. That is the Sinn Fein case against the policy of Parliamentarianism, and it is an overwhelming case. The Sinn Fein policy, on the other hand, reverses the policy of Parliamentarianism, and relies upon focussing the attention and the strength of the Irish people upon action within Ireland. As a first step towards the resurrection of Ireland it would deny the authority of the English Parliament to legislate for Ireland, and it would refuse to send any representatives whatever to that Parliament. It would assemble in Dublin a National Assembly, elected by the people, to act as a _de facto_ Parliament, which should take within its purview all Ireland and plan for the conservation and development of national resources. The Sinn Fein policy would (a) Deny the legality of the Act of Union and refuse to send representatives to the English Parliament, thereby cutting the ground at once from under the Union. (b) Establish Irish as the national language of Ireland; teaching through Irish only in the Irish-speaking districts, and bilingually in the non-Irish-speaking districts. (c) Remodel the Irish educational chaos, and frame a system based upon Irish culture, and as national as the educational systems of other countries are. (d) Establish an Irish mercantile marine. (e) Establish Irish courts of arbitration, to supersede the Law Courts. (f) Improve transit facilities, cut down internal rates, and overhaul and extend the canal system. (g) Establish in foreign countries Irish representatives specially trained who would act in the same capacity as consuls. (h) Direct the strength of the Irish people generally as that of one man in any given direction