The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-23
In To-day's Mail Patrick Sarsfield Club And Clan-Na Gael

| of 1922 and 1923. when friends and brothers and church turned against them. held true to the Republic of Ireland. To those men, former members of the Irish Republican Army" remain the task to carry on the course of Ireland in this city of Waterbury. To do 1t successfully, they ask the cooperation of all Irish men and women. who believe In the right of Ireland to govern itself. Will they get 1t?
 As in it's early days the Clan-No- Gael included in its ranks men who had achieved distinction in Ire later, so today 1t holds in its ranks men who have achieved distinction in Ireland in our own time.
 Mir Luddy in a letter g year ago to the press (when he so resented the Irish question being used as political football in this state) said The had heard not of any discon- tent from those who were foremost in the movement for an Irish Re- publie". Where has he been for the past ten years? Did he expect the youth of Ireland would accept the Free State" as 0 compromise? Did he expect the people of Ire land would remain reconciled to British rule? If he did, his knowledge of the Irish race, and its history is very limited.
 In his speech recommending the Treaty to the dail on December 1s, 1921, Collins said: Tn my opinion 1t gives us not freedom, not the ultimate freedom that all na- tions desire and develop to. but the freedom to achieve it." For the past ten years his successor, Mir Cosgrove, that hirling of British interests in Ireland, has gone a step further, he has told us through press and radio, that under the Free State" Ireland has complete freedom, but today Irish men and women have awakened to the fact that 1t Is neither freedom nor the means to achieve freedom. but the means by which they are led into the British Empire", and the shackles of slavery more securely fastened on them.
 Today Republican Ireland has again awakened, and Cosgrove and his ministers resort to the old Brit ish trick if coercion. Imprisonment and murders will again be the methods used to try and crush the republican spirit.
 Once again we hear the cry, for eign gold Is financing the republi- can movement in Ireland. but this is ssss sn q 0ld sr In ths ssys 0s Queen 1t was French Fold. stiii later in our own time it was German gold, and today it is Russian geld But the only gold that is behind the republican movement is "Irish" gold, and the gold of Irish imi- grants the world over. and their
 Today the "Irish Hisrsrchy'' cry ''communism," the same "Hierar- chy''. who in 1899 and 1893 re- sorted to wholesRls excommunica- tion of the Catholic youth of fre- land because they would not recog- nize British rule in Ireland.
 Here is what the Irish Hierarchy said in Q manifesto of June 24, 1919. Ireland is a distinct and ancient nation. and 1t Is vain to hope that things will SO we'll for Ireland. or for England. until Ire- lands rights are duly recognized. She is fully entitled to govern ment that will be the free choice of all her people. Her right is to be mistress of her own destiny" But that was in 1919. What was right and true in 1919 ia right in 19a2; Ireland Is entitled to be mis- tress of her own destiny. and all obstacles placed in the road to complete freedom, either by eleri- cal, or lay supporters of British in- terests in Ireland will not avail against q reEenerate4 Irieh people In securing their goal, which is the establishment of the republic pro- claimed in 1916 the inWfuIl severn meuk of tho cotfnkfy.
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