The Connecticut labor press., 1919-07-12
By FRANK P. WALSH.

We have had a crowded 10 days of it, Ex-Governor Dunne, MT. M. J. Ryan, and l. and 1 rather think we had all come to the conclusion that the possi- bilities of emotion had been exhausted. And then one evening near the end of our visit, our train, en route for Gal way, pulled out of Athlone just as the long Irish twilight merged into dark ness Suddenly we noticed bonfire at little distance from the train, then another, and yet others. Then we no- ticed that all along the way every house seemed to have a light in one window. Then we noticed that where the train crossed a road there were torches, sometimes two or three sometimes a dozen. At the stations, there were crowds with torChes-and always the light shining i'll the window. And so 1t continued across the breadth of Con- naught until, well after midnight, we came to Galway town ,where great num- bers met us. We have all of us tried to grasp the meaning of that silent vel come and to understand what was ill the hearts of the Connaught people when they lighted the fires on the hill sides as we Americans bearing mess age of hope passed by. Surely it could only have been meant to convey to us that the sacred fire was still burning in the hearts of tEe people after all these thousand years of darkness to assure us that aspirations inextinguishable were ready to burst into flame.
 I think we had, at an earlier moment some premonition of the feeling to be awakened in us by the lights i'll the windows i'll Connaught. It was at the meeting of the Dali Eireann specially called to receive us have had good deal of experience of elected legislative bodies in my time and 1 am bound to say I have never been in presence of a body whose membership impressed me more highly. In personality. capacity for leadership, sublimated patriotism e1oquence prudence, and application to the business in hand the Irish body has nothing to suffer from the comparison. And the proceedings of the Assembly, except during that part which was de- voted to our reception, were conducted in the Irish language. It will probably take us some time yet to realize the tull significance of this astonishing feat But something of that significance was re- vealed in the course of the week that followed for I noticed that everywhere we went we were presented i'll Irish, and that the people seemed to under stand We used to come upon groups of small children who saluted us III Irish We saw for ourselves that the children from cultured families were being sent to Donegal where they would hear nothing but Irish.
 We met in Dublin delightful racon- teur who explained to us how intoler- able conditions had become. If you walk unsteadily in the streets you are arrested for being drunk; if you walk upright and steadily, you are arrested for drilling" I must say l am not sur prised at the mystifcation of the author ities which this comment revealed. In Cork we were followed by long pro- cession, probably 5000 men-all, 70 far as could be seen, just plain civilians forming part of an ordinary street crowd, Suddenly one of, my colleagues in the carriage with me said, "Listen," and I listened. The street crowd were walking absolutely in step, the clack, clack, c1ack, in perfect marching time resounding from the pavement. Not a man of the 5000 could have been ar rested for anything but drilling. And this is going on everywhere. The Irish nation is undergoing voluntary military discipline.
 In such circumstances it becomes a