The "Literary Digest" February 7 gives an interesting account of the Sinn Fein efforts to raise G.$10,000,000 worth of bonds in America, "the first loan of the elected Government of the Republic of Ireland." Already four-fifths of New York's quota of $3,000,000 has been raised and other cities are said to be doing well. The Catholic "Monitor" of San Francisco assures its readers that the money is not to buy arms and ammunition. The "Indiana Catholic and Record'? affirms that the money will go' to fostering Irish industries, financing the resettlement of untenanted lands, afforestation ete. American subscribers might be surprised 7 learn that if this really were all Sinn Feiners wanted morley fo, England would be only too thankful to give them ten times ten millions, and not talk about repayment, Meanwhile there are plenty of papers to denounce the insolence of the. whole business. The "Street," a New York financial paper, says that "we cannot expect England to endure this continual plotting in America for bloodshed in Ireland," and after describing
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