The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-30

 can Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic, the Bridgeport branch of the new organization formed by President De Valera for the urgent work of placing the cause of the Irish Republic before the American public is growing rapidly in membership. Many more access sions to the membership rolls are ex- pected next Sunday.
 There has been much interest To- ca1Iy in the scope of the new organ ization. The man best a;[i qua;1ned to to Valera himself. In his latest state ment, MT. De Valera gives the fol- l lowing as the objectives of the new l organization:
 tives. I was chosen for 8 number of reasons to be Ireland's special rep. | resentative to this country to ask or country formal recognition of the fact that the Irish people, exercising their ina1ienable right, had set up an inde- pendent republic, which was entitled l to recognition by the peoples of the earth. I was chosen for the mission 1 for the reasons I gave at the time: first, because this was the first nation ! to which we were appealing. neeo not dwell on why you were chosen frst-you were the nation that was most powerful and most closely linked l to Ireland so the chief representative of Ireland was sent.
 l Il came here thoroughly uIloSI- standing thep osition in which Amer Il ican citizens of Irish blood would find themselves. Next to Ireland, for the same reasons, I love America;
 but my duties are to Ireland recog- nize quite well that your duties are first to America, as mine are to Ire
 land and if ever there were a clash between Americas interest and Ire
 lands interests your duty would be with America
 50 clearly did I realize this that
 from the moment I came here there is scarcely a word Of mine that has not been addressed to all races.
 have made to special appeal to- those of Irish blood except from the point l of view that they knew the question
 better and had the natural sentl-
 mental interest in it, but 1 would never dare to insult you by making any appeal to you to do anything
 which was not perfectly consistent
 with your American citizenship.
 'I believe that any nation that
 would turn it's back upon justice,
 helping the strong against the weak,
 is doing that which vii! ultimately
 destroy it's own nation. l have simply
 appealed on the ground that our
 appealed on the ground of gratitude.
 You were helped in the Revolution
 by the Irish. have never appealed
 on that ground nave come heree z
 to say that the refusal to recognize the elected government of the Repub-
 lie of Ireland is an injustice done to
 Ireland by America Every Alnerl-
 can has a right to raise his voice in favor of this cause simply on the
 ground of justice. You, by refusing
 to recognize the government of the
 Irish Republic, are siding with Eng
 lands might against 1reland's right.
 You are giving England moral sup
 port to send her soldiers into Ireland
 and trample upon the Irish people
 stAt Chicago I was appealing to
 who American people, to l tspeak, I went there in order that : the delegates to that convention :, might hear that there was nation r beyond the seas which was appeal z ing to America on the basis of justice | | ana on the principles of American . ism for which the Americans tough the war We o, had a 11gh5 hgfnra to ,,ay, g, If I were trying to drive bargain
 with your political paynasters. yol
 might think I went about 1t in al
 officious manner +o han aho hothihg tsyn5 tt r about My hopes being absolutely y in the people; I went at 1t in an oper II ' manner.
 !: "If I did wrong the Irish peopl, K are my masters and to them I vii - have to answer. There is nothing :, new to me in this difference that hai O arisen. The contest we had in Ire '- party had done great work for Ire - ponent of theirs because held tha
 because great work had been don Ic in the past should not be used t K prevent action at the present. Al el ways the word split was raised jus
 as here to prevent action bein le taken. a During the past eight or nin l. months, though, saw public opinio it rising in our favor, still l saw ther y was always something wrong
 this new organization I believe tha K you could get in one state as man or as there were in the old organizato E. in the whole country. Instead of ne
 gstiving each others work by dissen
 sions inside the one organization, yo