ters themselves will probably be long connected
with the labours and name of their annotator, Dr
Donovan, so also I would not have any of you
forget what is due to the publisher of the first
complete edition of the Annals when you ope it,
aa I hope every student of this national Universi¬
ty will often and axiously do, to apply yourselves
to study the great events of your country's histo¬
ry in the time-honored records collected by the
O'Clery's.
(To be Continued)
THE SENTIMENTS of our SUBSCRIBERS
Cal — Merced, B Grogan — Placerville, Rev. B
McFeely,
Del — Wilmington, M McEvilly, Patrick R Mul¬
rooney.
Kan — Armourdale, W Higgins, per P McEniry,
Kan. City, Mo — Lakin, M A Weber.
Mass — Blackstone, Rev. James A Hurley.
Minn — St Paul, M Conroy.
Mo — Kan. City, Counselor T W Fraher, E Cun¬
ningham, per P McEniry — Pierce City, D O'Neill.
Mont — Butte City, P S Harrington, P Cumbra,
per Mr Harrington.
N H — Keene, P Duffy — Nashua, P F Niland.
N J — Jersey City, T Lyons.
N Y — Averill Park, M Cusack — Brooklyn, Mrs.
Aug. Ford (who earnestly wishes long life to the
"spirited little paper"); Mrs Rina F Svensson, a¬
nother true Irish woman — Greenfield, P A Dougher
(Mr Dougher sends twelve copies of each issue to
friends in Ireland where, he says, it does an in¬
mensity of service, and hopes other Gaels will send
it to theirs).
Pa — Pittsburgh, Miss Mary C Howley, per P R
Howley, Spokane, Wash.
Vt — Bellows Falls, John P Harnett — Gouldsville
Ed. Ryan.
Wash — Spokane, P R Howley.
W Va — Wheeling, Rev. Fr. McGilligot, Mary
Ellen Burke, Myles Burke, all per A Lally,
Wis — Town of Union, Maurice Moore (a good I¬
rish scholar.
Canada — Quebec, Rev. M Oates, C. SS. R.
Ireland, —
Clare — Kilmihil, Miss S Hogan, per James Co¬
gan, Esq., Dublin.
Dublin, James Cogan, John Hogan, Con Quinn,
Esqrs. per Mr Cogan.
Galway, Stonetown, L Comer, N T, per T
Lyons, Jersey City, N J — Kinvarra, Wm Dunne,
per P Hanbury New York.
Mayo — Bally Garries, M May, N T; M Mylott,
C E, both per P F May, Scranton, Pa.
Sligo — Corbally, M Howley, Esqr — Culleens, M.
Sheridan, per P R Howley, Spokane, Wash.
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Fitzgerald, Esqr — Manchester, Rev. R. Henebery.
Gaels, we appeal to you, both new and old sub¬
sribers, to try to get at least one or two other sub¬
scribers, and we do so because of the probably little
exertion necessary to accomplish it and its import¬
ance to the Gaelic cause; and friends, you do not
discharge your duty as Irishmen to that cause by a
mere perfunctory subscription to the Gael — a cause
which lies at the foundation of the future prospects
of your race.
POLITICS.
We are not, strictly speaking, a politician as we
belong to no political party. The reason we don't
is, if we knew an unworthy man to be on the tick¬
et we would not vote for him for all the parties in
creation. Hence, we keep aloof from parties; but
as the Gael is devoted to Irish autonomy as well
as to the language we criticise both in matters of
interest to Irishmen. Harrison, who cried holy
horrors at the "spoils' hunters," beat the Republi¬
can party by forcing his nomination through the
officeholders — he having run 42,000 votes behind
his vote of '88 in this State alone, and Cleveland
did not get that vote for he did not poll within one
hundred thousand of half the vote of the State.
And Cleveland, who louder still decries the spoils
men, is appointing to fat places all who took an
active part in securing his nomination. This class
of men act as if they were beyond the reach of the
common people though they themselves be tak¬
en from the slums but yesterday.
The ordinary voter will cry "The pa-arty" the
same as if he had a voice in the direction of public
affairs no more than the man in the moon once he
casts his ballot for a fraudulent politician
Three-fourths of the votes which elected Presid¬
ent Cleveland were cast by the Irish-American ele¬
ment. — Is it the will of that large, indispensable to
his success, number of citizens that there is not
one man in his Cabinet in Sympathy with them?
Before the election Mr Cleveland's political press
had it advertised all over that he and his wife at¬
ended a church entertainment in St. Peters, this
city — the crowded centre of an exclusively Irish
population. What did he do that for? Was that
an honorable thing to do in view of his present ac¬
tions? Does it not look like the act of the confid¬
ence man? The Irish-American element is nearly
one-half of the white population of the United
States; they vote the Democratic ticket almost en
mass, and yet they — the countrymen of Blaine,
are not worthy of even one seat out of eight in the
administrative offices of the country!
Some Catholic journals do not admit that the Irish
element is so strong in the United States as represen¬
ted, and this because of the great disparity between
it and the Catholic census. Gentlemen, look in any
directory and you will be convinced, if you do not
want to. It would be more to the point to cease
whimpering and take the bull by the horns. — You
are laughed at by thoughtful men of other nations.
The Gael is very interesting this month ; it is full
of new and varied matter. But what is beyond and
above all — it is Irish ! Don’t forget on any occa¬
sion to point to the extracts on the sub-title page ;
we have been told that they cause the greatest pos¬
sible annoyance to the parties socially opposed to us,
but they have no back door — keep them to them by
circulating them.
