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"A nation which allows her language to go to ruin, is
parting with the best half of her intellectual independence,
and testifies to her willingness to cease to exist." — ARCH¬
BISHOP TRENCH.
"The Green Isle contained for more centuries than one,
more learning than could have been collected from the rest
of Europe ... It is not thus rash to say that the Irish
possess contemporary histories of their country, written in
the language of the people, from the fifth century. No
other nation of modern Europe is able to make a similar
boast." — SPALDING'S ENGLISH LITERATURE, APPLETON & CO.,
NEW YORK.
Who are the Scotch? A tribe of Irish Scots who crossed
over in the 6h century, overcame the natives, and gave
their name to the country. — J. CORNWELL, PH.D., F. R. S.'s
Scotch History.
The Saxons Ruled in England from the 5th century and
were so rude that they had no written language until the
14th, when the Franco-Normans formulated the English. —
SPALDING.
The
Gael.
A monthly Journal devoted to the Cultivation
and Preservation of the Irish Language and
the autonomy of the Irish Nation.
Published at 814 Pacific st., Brooklyn, N. Y.
M. J. LOGAN, - - - Editor and Proprietor
Terms of Subscription — $1 a year to students, 60
cents to the public, in advance ; $1. in arrears.
Terms of Advertising — 20 cents a line, Agate,
Entered at the Brooklyn P. O. as 2nd-class matter
Twelth Year of Publication.
VOL 9, No. 12. MAY., 1893.
Remember that the First Irish Book is given free
of charge to every new subscriber.
Subscribers will please remember that subscrip¬
tions are due in advance.
What the learned Editor of the Gaelic Journal
says of the Gael. — Recent issues of the Brooklyn
GAEL and the TUAM NEWS contain valuable Gaelic
matter. The GAEL in particular is doing splendid
work. * * I may note that the writers of the
GAEL represent the spoken language of every part
of Ireland. Again. —
"Nothing show the advance made in the study
of Gaelic better than the quality of the popular
Gaelic of the GAEL of Brooklyn. Scores of people
who now write Irish well, and speak it too, have
the little Gael to thank for much of their success.
Mr. Patrick O'Leary, M. P. Ward, the Gabhar
Donn, Mr. P. A. Dougher, and others, fill the pages
of the Gael with attractive Gaelic matter."
The Editor of the Gael would not be human did
he not feel highly flattered at the above recognition
of his efforts by the highest living Gaelic authority,
the learned and Rev. Professor of Celtic of May¬
nooth College.
— A weekly Gaelic paper is published at Sydney,
Cape Breton Island, called the MacTalla, price $1.
a year.
— Professor MacKinnon of Edinburgh has publish¬
ed two Gaelic Reading Books for his classes in the
University.
Irish "Scabs."
SPRINGFIELD, O, May 12, — The second session
of the fifth Scotch-Irish Congress of America con¬
vened at the City Hall this morning, with an in¬
creased attendance of delegates who arrived last e¬
vening, the most distinguished being the Rev. John
Hall. Robert Bonner, of New York, presided. The
annual business meeting was held this afternoon,
Dr. D. C. Kelly, of Nashville, Tenn., addressed
the Congress on "Naval Heroes of the Scotch-
Irish Race. — New York Press.
"Kelly" be —, Filthy bird, behold your race
'Tis hard to have patience with these Irish 'scabs',
and the best way to handle them is to expose their
fraudulent pretenses, and to keen on exposing them
until an indignant public shall hoot them off the
stage. This Scotch-Irishism is simply a cloak for
Orangeism and Apaism. They are one, but under
different names; and such hypocrites as Godkin,
Bonner, and Hall are their leaders. They are not
and cannot be American citzens as their oath is al¬
legiance to England, and they are English. Their
number is not many, but they are aggressive, and
command to-day a considerable share of public pa¬
tronage.
Let not the patriotic Protestant Irishman imag¬
ine that the Gael is bigotted or that it cares a traith¬
nin what religion a man has (r whether he have
any) when he does not use it as a lever against the
interests of Irish Autonomy, and our criticism has
been always leveled at those who so use it. A
man's belief regarding the next world is his own
private personal concern with which it would be the
height of impertinence in us to meddle unless he
use it to the injury of the public or private interests
of others as do those whom we reprobate.
Rowell's Newspaper Directory for 1893, just rec¬
eived, gives the total of all the newspapers and pe¬
riodicals published in the United States as 20,006.
The strength and patriotism of the various nation¬
alities are shown by the number of journals which
they support in their respective languages, as fol¬
lows. —
German, 600
Spanish, 60
Hollandish, 18
Hebrew, 12
Sclavonic, 5
Welsh, 5
Lithuanian, 3
Russian, 3
Arabic, 1
Irish, 1
Scandinavian, 150
French, 50
Italian, 15
Finnish, 10
Portuguese, 5
Indian, 4
Hungarian, 3
Chinese, 2
Armenian, 1
Volapuk, 1
Irishmen (?), How do you like your picture? The
little Gael has saved you from utter extinction, as a
race, in America. As for our Scotch brethren, rel¬
ligious fanaticism emasculated them long ago. May
the Weish prosper in fame and renown! Welshmen
speak English as well as the Irish do, yet, with not
one-twentieth the numerical strength of the latter,
they have Five prosperous journals in these United
States! No wonder that the Irish are the butt and
laughing stock of the world, braying for home-rule
and seeing its vital concomitant — its very life — in
the throes of dissolution without the faintest effort
to save it. Men, you who call yourselves Irishmen,
the above exhibit places you in the most degraded
attitude which the most maligant of our social en¬
emies could devise! Had you the manliness or the
intelligence to support and circulate your literature,
