The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-28
VICTORY CAMPAIGN WEARS HALE WAY MARK
FOUNDER OF THE
 UNITED FRESHMEN
Clan.Na.G Gael and l. R. A. Club Observed Annivef.
 sary of Wolf Tone
DIED FOR IRELAND

The anniversary of Wolf Tone. was observed last Friday evening at the Clan-Na Gael and 1. R. A. club. Irish and American songs were the features. of the evening, and the club officers gave a few short talks on the political situa- ton in Ireland. Refreshments were served to all those present.
 The following Is part of the ad- dress delivered by the chairman "Achara.v No words of mine could do Justice to the memory of him who was one of Ireland's greatest patriots. Educated at Trinity Col iege, Dublin, after which he stud jed law in London, he might have held one of the highest civic offices in the gift in the British Grown. if he had only taken the side Of England against his country. But Theobald Wolf Tone's love for his native country and his strong ha- tired for English rule. made him cast his lot with the United Irishmen an organization founded by him and Samuel Nelson of Belfast. The principles that actuated the United Irish Men, are clearly expressed by Tone himself in his memoirs: ITO subvert the tyranny of our exc crable government, to break the con nection with England. the never failing source of all our political evils, to assert the Independence Of my country-these were my ob. jects. To unite the whole people or Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions and to substi- tute tffe common name of Irish man in the place of denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissen- ter-these were my means. Organ- izers sent out through Ireland 10 enroll the youth into the ranks or the United Irishmen met with every success, and Ireland again prepared to strike a blow for free- dom.
 The series of disasters which led to the defeat of the United Irish Men in 1798 and the arrest and death of Wolf Tone In a British prison, is well known to all of us.
 Though Tone failed to achieve his objective, nevertheless he laic the foundation from which all t!sde movements having for their objec. tive the freedom of Ireland, should be built upon.
 Patrick Pearse the greatest Irish man of our day said: Wolf, Tone was the greatest of all who died for Ireland. He was the groatcst of Irish nationalists.
 Tones principles are to-day the principles of the Irish Republican army, and Tones methods are thelr methods. For the past ten years Irish organizations and politicians in this country and city told us Ireland was free and Cffcted as proof of their statements the prog ence in Dublin of sham parlia- ment, under the secret control of British imperialists, that passed car rion acts, paid agents to persecute and harry republicans, so as to hold the country for England." as the yoemen did in Tones time.
 But my friends, republican Ire land has remained true to the teaching of Wolf Tone. The mask has been torn off and exposed to the people in their true light, by renegade Irish men of William Cosgrave's type. To-day Cosgrave's place is taken by a man who places his country above the British King and who has stripped the British imperialists of their coats of mail and placed them in their rightfull places. "
 But my friends, let us rennem- Der the fight is not started. Let us remember that only force of arms or the threat of arms in the past secured any concession for the Irish people, and remembering, we will continue our support to the Irish Republican army on whom the brunt of the coming battle will rest, and who will in the fu- ture as well as in the past support army leaders whose objective is to break the British connection. and establish the Irish Republic pro- claimed in 1918 and ratified by the Irish people in 1919 as the gov ernment of the thirty-two counties of Ireland"