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AN GAOḊAL.
The Gael would urge on those newspapers friend¬
ly to the Gaelic cause, such as The Irish World,
the Democrat, the United Irishman, the Monitor,
the Freeman's Journal, the Tablet, the Scranton
Truth, the Canadian Freeman, the Catholic Leav¬
enworth, the Sun, Contra Costa Cal. Mountain
Democrat, the Florida News, the Star, Hastings,
Canada, the Catholic Knight, Cleveland, the Cat¬
holic Columbian, the A. O. H. New Haven Conn.
the Nebraska Watchman the Evening Post, the
St. John Globe, the Catholic Record, etc., to pub¬
lish a Gaelic department. Somebody in the re¬
spective cities where they are published could be
got to supervise the matter even if not to per¬
fection sufficiently so to bring the matter into
general notice.
The Orange faction who could not elect one half
the members of the Northern province, threaten
to slaughter all before them rather than submit
to a native parliament. There is no doubt but
they would do it if they could. Nearly all these
are alien to the soil, and their threat is a poor
compliment to Irishmen, who, notwithstanding
continued persecution, form nine-tenths of the
population.
The Philo Celtic Society has some Hon. mem¬
bers. Some time ago the society sent bills to those
in arrears, and out of fifteen, only the Hon. W.
H. Murtha responded. Yet some of the others
are in fat political offices, and reached there on
the pretense that they were Irishmen. There are
oceans of Irishmen who have just as much Irish
in them as the northern Orangemen only as a
means to creep into fat offices.
So as to keep up with the date, the pres¬
ent month is put on this Gael instead of April.
We have received a large number of encour¬
aging communications on colonization and will
advert to them in next issue.
A large number of our Gaelic friends through¬
out the country write to us to express their regret
at what they call the failure of the Dublin Gae¬
lic Journal. We regret that we cannot spare time
to write to our friends in return, and we assure
them that our failure to do so does not arise
from neglect or want of appreciation. If we
were to write to all our correspondents, the Gael
would have to stop behind, because it is turned
out by our hands, and that after ordinary busi¬
ness. So that we hope this will be accepted by
our friends in place of a direct reply.
We do not look upon the Gaelic Journal as
dead, it only sleeps, and we have it will soon
awake into renewed life and vigor. We question
if there are many men in America, or outside of
it, who have paid more in time and money to
the Language and Home Rule movement than
we have, yet we don't miss it. Neither the
Gaelic Journal or the Gael can be produced with¬
out money. Who is to supply this money ex¬
cept those who take an interest in the language.
Over $1,000 is due to the Gael to day, we can¬
not say what is due the Journal, because we have
nothing to do with it, but we believe it is similar¬
ly treated. Now, we ask those who are in arrears
to the Journals, how many dollars have they spent
needlessly since the commencement of their ar¬
rearage?
Had the Gael's subscribers paid up promptly it
could now appear in a new green suit and enlarged
to 32 pages. But as there is no fear of the Gael,
we shall confine ourselves to the journal. If every
subscriber of the Journal pays promptly it will live.
Close on a million of dollars were collected for Par¬
nell. Does any one miss what he gave? Not one.
Friends, let there be no regrets at the collapse of
the Journal. It has not collapsed, and substantial
sympathy only is necessary to keep it in vigorous
health.
[Let this truth be impressed on the mind of every
Irishman. — If you desire Gaelic literature or any o¬
ther Irish matter to prosper, you must support it,
nay, you must push it as if its whole success depend¬
ed on you alone. — It will then prosper.
If the spirit which gave birth to Mr.
Baldwin's few lines on another page,
animated any considerable number of
Irishmen, English footpads, whether
lordly or plebeian, would weigh their
words before telling Irishmen that "if
they did not like English law, in their
own country they could emigrate"!!
Can intelligent human nature bear
such rascally blood thirsty insolence?
The signs of the times plainly indi¬
cate the desire of the masses of Eng¬
lishmen to allow Irishmen to govern
themselves; so that the real enemies
of Irish autonomy are but a few lord¬
ly land-robbers. Are the Irish able
for these?
England being the nearest neighbor to Ireland,
and as neighbors should always endeavor to culti¬
vate friendly relations, the Gael would not sanction
a free Ireland to become the stepping stone of any
foreign power to injure her neighbor's interest, and
we believe these to be the sentiments of the ma¬
jority of Irishmen, but England's persistence in
keeping reland in subjection would cause us to
sink her in the depths of the ocean.
A CONTRAST — Rowell's Newspaper Directory for
1886 8 1-2x6 inches, 1800 pages, containing the
names of 14.160 newspapers and periodicals publis¬
hed in the states and territories, lies before us, ac¬
companying which is a directory for 1776, 2x1-2
inches, containing the names of 39 papers published
at that time.
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