The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-16
Irish Free State
 Still Bothered
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is no appeal from the sentence. The visitor in Dublin today will find few mementoes of the time. only a few years abck, when the ''Black and Tans" and the Irish republican army slaughtered hun- dreds in the barricaded streets, when houses were burned and pub lie buildings blown up as Erin sought to free herself from Bit ish rule. O'Connel1 street, risen from the ashes, is now one of the most modern thoroughfares of Europe. Only a few bullet-scat- tered patches on the column of the Nelson monument there serve as reminders of the "terror".
 But out in the lonely rural dis tricts, and even in hidden places among the mountains, there are different, stranger sights to be seen.
 Bands of ragged peasant youths, meeting in out-of-the-way spots, have been watched going through military drills day after day. Civic guard patrols have come across mountain caches where large stores of rifles, machine guns, dynamite, hand grenades and cartridges were found. They were the property of the outlawed Irish republican army.
 The Irish republican army still considers itself a war with Great Britain. It did not break up when the rebellious republic" made its peace with Britain in 1921 and bee came the Irish Free State.
 For time after it lost Ramon Devalero and other pioneer lead CTS, the army languished. Ireland seemed to be prospering under home rule and her people were sick of ,bloodshed.
 But suddenly, about eight months ago. the army leaders dis covered new source of strength. had been drained of her youth by emigration. Thousands of young men annually departed to settle in more prosperous lands, chiefly the United States. Then the depres- sion descended. Ireland, with prices holding steady in her meat and dairy exports, appeared for awhile to be riding it better than any European nation. The youths decided this time to stay at home.
 All at once, without warning, came trouble from every side. Eng land, Ireland's nearest and biggest customer, suffered heavy eco homie blow, and Irish exports fell. The young men who stayed at home found they were not needed there, and the unemployment fig ure rose.
 whether 1t was for lack of some thing to do or whether 1t appealed to their instincts, Irish youths pres ently begain filling the ranks 'of the depleted republican army. Sim ultaneously half a dozen Com munist groups began by springing up. A strong Communist element filtered into the army. Military drills were held illegally, and such police officers as knew about them were warned not to interfere.
 Then came a number of clashes with the civic guard the killing of several officials and court wit nesses and a series of violent incl dents in the North involving the republican army followers with their ancient foes, the Orangemen of Ulster. Trains were bombed, tracks torn up, public houses wrecked and convent stoned.
 PreStdent COSgraVe ana ms IniH- ister of justice frankly admitted their helplessness. In appealing for the safety bill the president de- clared: "A state of affairs exists in his country with which the law is inadequate to deal. The consti- tuition of the Free State is one of the most democratic in the world. Freedom Is given for the adoption of a2y political program, but at tempts have been made to establish a dictatorship by means of violence: We cannot submit to any political chance from persons with guns Tn their hands,"
 Few observers seem to believe communism can succeed in doing any grave damage in Ireland, be- cause of it's peculiarly unfavorabie conditions. But there are few likewise who seem certain that the drastic safety law can suppress the more deeply rooted Irish repubn- can army.
 (Tomorrow: Ramon De Valera, who wants peaceable birth of Irish republic, thinks his chance is com ing.)