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AN GAOḊAL.
P. G PORTLAND. — In our allusion to President
Arthur in the first number, we did not
eulogize him, we expressed a hope ; we believe, in
nominating Mr. Conklin, he has offered an insult
to the majority of the American people, and we
believe also that they (the American people) have
manhood enough to resent it when the proper time
arrives.
2nd. — We think the Democrats could not do bet-
ter than support Mr. Blaine's candidacy for the
presidency. He has proven himself a true Ame-
rican during his short official career, and that is
the man to support. Had he remained, England
should keep within her proper bounds — a position
in which it would be to the interest of the Irish
people to keep her.
M. O'B. Brooklyn, E. D. Tho' we voted against
Mayor Low, we think his administration of the
office, for so far, excellent.
2nd. We believe Mr. Shroeder would make
good official ; we would like to see him gover-
nor of the state,
J. M., N. Y. — Call to 114 & 116 E. 13th st. or
to 295 Bowery, on any Sunday, at three o'clock,
where competent and affable teachers are always
in readiness to impart instruction in the IRISH lan-
guage.
S. Nearly all those to whom we appealed in the
first number have responded ; not only has Mr.
Walsh of Elmira, responded individually. but he
ordered the paper for friends in Ireland.
F. Carroll, Columbus. Ohio — There are three
translations of Emmet's Speech : one by T. O.
Russell, published by the Irish-American at 10
cents ; one by P. J. O'Daly, of Boston, published
by the Irish World at 15 cents, and one by us
which will appear in the next issues of the Gael
to the exclusion of all other Gaelic matter except
the lessons.
The Brooklyn Philo-Celtic Society elected the
following board of officers for the year, — Mr. D
Gilgannon, prest, ; vice prets., P. Morrissey, and
J. Kyne ; rec. secs., H. C. Finn, and P. Archer;
fin. secs., J. F O’Brien, and M, J. Heaney ; cor,
secs., M. J. Logan, and A. Morgan Deely ; treas,
Miss Nora T. Costello ; librarian, Miss Maggie J.
McGinley; sergeant-at-arms, P. Mahoney.
The Society's reunion and ball comes off on
Thursday evening, April 30, at Uris's Dancing
Academy, 611 Fulton st., opp. Flatbush Av.
Names of the subscribers sent by Mr. P. J.
O'Daly, Boston, Mass., noticed in last issue; —
M. B. O’Donoughue ; J. L. Scanlan ; P. M. Do¬
ran; J. G. Lane ; P. J. Sullivan, J. E. Barrett;
Annie Murray ; M. O’Ruairke ; J. J. Sullivan, and
P. J. O'Daly.
Major Maher of New Haven, Conn., is doing
good work for the GAEL. Among the subscribers
sent by him is Mr. James Reynolds, famed in con-
nection with patriotic enterprises ; also, Capt. O'
Brien, and Mr. T. Callaghan.
The GAEL returns thanks to the editor of the
A. O. H. Record for his kind notice of it in that
highly interesting journal.
A WORD TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS.
The GAODHAL will feel obliged to any of its sub-
scribers who has not received his copy in due time
to notify us of the fact. Mistakes are likely to occur
both by us and the mail officials, and the nonappear-
ance of the journal may create unfavorable impress-
ions as to its stability. On this head we shall here
state that its existence does not depend on any exter-
nal aid or support. We do not publish the GAEL
as a means of making our living. We are engaged
in the Real Estate and Commission business for that
purpose, and any man of ordinary intelligence can
make a respectable living thereby. We publish the
GAEL in the interest of our and our childrens' so-
cial standing. We do not desire to be classed as the
progeny of semibarbarous progenitors, which we
should be if our forefathers had no cultivated liter-
ature The very existence of the GAEL shows that
they had, and while we live in health, it will be pub-
lished if it had not a single subscriber. So, we hope
this explicit declaration will ease our friends' minds.
We have now in our possession the type and plant
necessary to turn out these twelve pages ; we set
the type ourselves, we make up the matter and pre-
pare it for the press, and all this is done after our
regular business hours; so that all we should lose by
the GAEL would be trivial, supposing even that
it had not a single subscriber. But the contrary
is the fact. As already noticed, it has subscribers
from Donegal to Oregon. In this connection we
may here say that we absolve all who signified their
intention to become subscribers, and who have not
aid in their subscriptions, if they have changed
their minds in its regard. We will not wait on
any one for his subscription. It would look too
much like begging the question and, certainly,
the spirit which moves us (nonprofessional in the
publication line) to produce this journal, for its
specific purpose, is not consistent with soliciting
support for it from unwilling contributors. There-
fore those who have been supplied with the paper
and who have no inclination to continue it would
confer a favor by notifying us of it.
Five thousand dollars have been offered to us for
the purpose of enlarging the GAEL and working up
a circulation for it. We declined the offer because
we are able to produce it ourselves, and because
those supplying the money would naturally expect
a share in its control. This latter we would not
yield. We have given it birth and we shall retain its
control, and freely express our sentiments therein
without fear, favor or affection, malice or illwill.
We thank the proposers for their kind intentins;
we shall give them control of its financial, but cer-
tainly not of its literary, matters:
Every dollar that it earns will be devoted to its
circulation. It will be published about the fif-
teenth of every month.
