From Scissors and Paste, December 12, 1914. Scissors and Paste was a short-lived newspaper edited by Griffith to evade British censorship laws in Ireland during the First World War. Instead of featuring opinions and editorials that may be considered seditious, the newspaper was predominately made up of extracts and quotations from other newspapers and books.
OURSELVES.
It is high treason 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.