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AN GAOḊAL.
must have a Celtic rather than a Saxon popula¬
tion; and
Whereas, The accident of the American Repub¬
lic having adopted the language of the enemy, in¬
stead of choosing the language of either of the na¬
tions that assisted her in the Revolution, has caus¬
ed this nation to be regarded as Anglo Saxon;
therefore
Resolved, That we recognize the supreme im¬
portance of the preservation and cultivation of our
own ancient, refined and most poetic and musical
tongue, whose intrinsic excellence caused the scho¬
lars of other lands to devote their lives to the study
of Irish and the translation of its wonderful histo¬
ric, poetic, and literary treasures :
Resolved, That we deem it the duty of every Hi¬
bernian to encourage the efforts of those newspa¬
pers that publish Gaelic matter and prove to the
world that there is an Irish language, and that it
lives and thrives in spite of the power of our ene¬
mies and the criminal neglect of our own people;
Resolved, That as Gaelic is taught in the uni¬
vesities of London, Edinburgh, and other cities
of Europe, it is reasonable that a chair should be
established for the purpose of teaching it in The
Catholic University of America, at Washington,
D. C.
The lowa Hibernians have paid in
their pro rata of the cost of establish¬
ing a Celtic chair in the Catholic Uni¬
versity. One thing yet remains to be
done: It would not cost over a cent a
member to have THE GAEL sent to eve¬
ry Division of the Order. This should
be done, and the Gael preserved along
with the other records.
Mr. James O'Shaughnessy, St Joseph
was chairman of the Committee on Re¬
solutions at Moberly, — A good Gael.
As the Hibernians have taken the Gaelic move¬
ment under their wings we would suggest to them
to have, at least, one copy of the GAEL sent to ev¬
ery Division of the Order in America to be preser¬
ved with their other records. That would not a¬
mount to a cent a year to each member, and yet it
would enable the GAEL to appear as a weekly in
the near future. We hope Gaels who are members
of the Order through the states will bring this
suggestion before their respective divisions
(Concluded from page 198)
Then truth will show unshaken.
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Thy gift hide not through foolish fear,
But bravely go and use it;
Do work, rust not, by goal to win,
Fino a way, my boy, or make it.
Chorus. —
Oh the plucky boy deserves applause,
The slothful wont obtain it;
The working boy will have good luck,
If he labors right to gain it.
The Catholic Sentinel, Kansas City, Mo., a new
venture in Catholic journalism, promises a useful,
prosperous career, — THE GAEL wishes it to it.
THE "VIPER."
We received the following choice
morsel, which bears the Chicago post
mark of the 5th, on the 6th of the
month. It is written in pencil on sin¬
gle sheets of thin, white paper such as
are used in newspaper offices by copy
writers. It seems to us that we have
seen the hand-writing before; it is jer¬
ky, as if done by an aged, nervous per¬
son; not easily read; the small d's have,
invariably, the shape of the Gaelic d.
That it was written by a person in the
habit of writing for newspapers, there
is not the shadow of a doubt; for the
peculiar formation of the period point,
and the large space left on the left-hand
margin of the paper for corrections,
betray the professional hand. Because
of the asinine slurs aimed at "Mick" he
possibly thought that it would not ap¬
pear in print and that he could still con¬
tinue to strut about in the garb of Irish
Nationalism. He was much mistaken.
"Mick" is too well used to British abuse
to be prevented from exposing the in¬
wardness of frauds by such considera¬
tion. Here is the production. —
July 2
Mick
Having read your verbose contribution in to-day's
"Citzen" let me give you a word of advice It is
this — don't let envy and jealousy eat you up. Dont
give the people be impression that you belong to
that class of cranks whose overflow of bile has ru¬
ined their digestion and who are pacing the world
for no other apparent purpose than to snarl at men
they cannot hope to emulate. Every one who read
your lucubration between the lines feels that your
malicious letter was aimed at T O'Neill Russell —
a gentleman who has done more for the cause of
Ireland and its patriotism and language than a
whole ship-load of craw thumpers like you and
and your dirty little sheet. Go and count your
beads you old fool, or wring up pater and aves or
help the mitered viper of the See of Dublin to be¬
tray Ireland and the Irish cause. Faugh a Bal¬
lagh! Get to that limbo where unappreciated
cranks are spitting in each other's faces while St
Peter and the Archangel are singing masses in vain
for their degraded souls
The world is too busy to pay any attention to
your grievances Mick, and the Irish people have
something to do besides losing their time studying
a dead language only spoken by a few miserable
spalpeens on the coast of Connaught.
I lost a good deal of my time with you Mick and
learned the Gaelic taught in your paper to my cost.
Thaddeus McNulty
[This is not the first time that forgery has been
sorted to by these moral defenders. — Ed. G.]
