Show Ireland Must Seek to Relieve II Economic Pressure Pressure-De Valera I By EAMON DE VALERA Irish Republican Leader Former President of the Sinn Fein Written for tor the tho United Press ht 1929 by United Press DUBLIN DUDlIN March 16 United Press St Patricks Patrick's day a the 1929 centenary cen- cen tenar year of em SUg suggests tion-suggests ests even en more than the usual train the vicissitudes vicissitudes lOt ot the long struggle or of our people for for political pol and religious liberty In the century since tIle the last or all but the tho last ot the hE penal laws were Ireland Irelan l has made notable n advances vances Many strongholds strongholds strong strong- holds ot of foreign domination have fallen Callen The professions proCessions have e ceased to be preserved for an ascendancy class higher her education has be been n made a available blo to the People land after a Jon long and struggle le has 1111 b the tho cultivators by been won back admin admin- has ben been wrested from foreign for for- I el eign n hams Irishmen are alco no longer I outCasts In their own land These are They show Rho what ha t ta a nation even after a century of oppression and can outlawry aC- aC But there have been losses losse also gla grave 0 A hundred ears cars ao the tho thou thought ht of oC partition or of Ireland into two states would have ben been regarded with hOrror Today Toda I is a ream reality Our people are wIth the cost of oC maintaining maintain maintain- in ing two governments and compelled com com- to p pay tribute to toa a third Every Important administrative is duplicated ted Four hundred thousand thousand thou thou- sand descendants of emancipated cl Catholics Catholic ot of 1829 1821 are under a rule rul as ruthless as that of the old as- as c A new pale hedges around the burial place of St St. Patrick and around the see from which hE 1 the church in In Ireland Ireland-a pale which I the majority of oC IrIshmen may crOss only on Internal trade Is by b the customs barrier IAn artificial of oC In interests has been creft created t d tc which In many man respects makes It Impossible impossible Im- Im possible t for r the t of oC one one part of Ireland to adopt for th the of without injury to the people of oC theother the other ther part The Irish lan language generally gen gen- spoken In tIll country a century cen- cen lUI tury ago I it now thE common speech only onh in a few Cew isolated areas on en the tle seaboard In 1829 Ireland had pen pen- ale in 1841 she had over Toda Today her population is les less than and the drain o of Immigration tion remains unchecked Irelands victories therefore have hate been won at a cost Nevertheless Nev- Nev the are definite victories not not fitful gains of oC a wa warl rl ht t- t and tIe they are an earnestness or of the nations nation's to rp regain aln on sovereignty over oWr all Its terri terri- tory But If we fall fail to cheek check 1 the decline of oC our hom tion all sacrifices anti all the fl- fl of years will have been In vain hl ro fo relieve the economic pressure that each ach year car compoly lone of oC of Trl Irish h men and l loon women wom- wom en n to se seek 1 their lI livelihood In In r. r nl ign n lands Is is our most pressing duty It the earnest efforts of Irishmen at home and the cords tl E si and s support of oC our r race cf abroad in 10 achieve ve it H Apathy would bo be fatal tatal The work and suf- suf of centuries hc earned for or a great destiny Let us us resolve re- re solve tOday with courage and devotion o devo- tion to ward oft off the remaining menace men men- final vie vie- Ictor ace and open the way to for tor |