By the end of 1914 all avowedly Sinn Fein papers had been suppressed, and the two American papers, the _Gaelic American_ and the _Irish World_, had been prohibited in Ireland. The latter had been a supporter of Mr. Redmond's policy but had parted company with him on the question of recruiting in Ireland. The editor of _Sinn Fein_ countered the suppression of his paper by an ingenious device. He began to publish a bi-weekly called _Scissors and Paste_, which contained nothing but extracts from other English, Irish, Colonial and American papers. It was introduced to the reader in the only editorial it contained, entitled "Ourselves": "It is high treason," it ran, "for an Irishman to argue with the sword the right of his small nationality to equal political freedom with Belgium or Servia or Hungary. It is destruction to the property of his printer now when he argues it with the pen. Hence while England is fighting the battle of the Small Nationalities, _Ireland_ is reduced to _Scissors and Paste_. Up to the present the sale and use of these instruments have not been prohibited by the British Government in Ireland." The columns of the _Times_, the _Daily Mail_, and the _Morning Post_ supplied the German Wireless messages: the _New York Times_ was drawn upon for James O'Donnell Bennett's articles protesting against the reports of German atrocities. In addition it printed suitable extracts from _The Reliques of Father Prout_, from Barry's _Songs of Ireland_, Thomas Davis's _Essays_ and Sir Samuel Ferguson: it reprinted Curran's speech in defence of the printer of _The Press_ in 1797. It ransacked the _Daily Mail_ for that journal's vigorous denunciations of the French in 1899: "If they cannot cease their insults their colonies will be taken from them and given to Germany and Italy--we ourselves want nothing more.... France will be rolled in the blood and mud in which her Press daily wallows." The paper ran for a little over a month. Its undoing was an extract from the _Irish Times_, a copy of a notice posted on a Sunday morning in January, 1915, in places near a number of Roman Catholic churches in Wexford: "People of Wexford, take no notice of the police order to destroy your own property and leave your own homes if a German army lands in Ireland. When the Germans come they will come as friends and to put an end to English rule in Ireland. Therefore stay in your homes and assist as far as possible the German troops. Any stores, hay, corn or forage taken by the Germans will be paid for by them." Just before the disappearance of _Scissors and Paste_, the _Irish Worker_, three weeks after its suppression, appeared again in Glasgow, where it was printed by the Socialist Labour Party, and began to circulate once more in Ireland.