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AN GAOḊAL.
THE SENTIMENTS OF OUR SUBSCRIBERS.
Cal — San Francisco, Capt. John Egan.
Conn — Hartford, C O'Brien, M Finn, per Mr O'
Brien — New Haven, Rev. B W Bray, J C Dono¬
van, Capt. L O'Brien. CoMr. J Reynolds, Thomas
Callaghan, P Murphy, and Major Maher, per the
Major — one of the few who has persevered to suc¬
cess — for there is no room for doubt now of the
Language Movement.
Del — Wilmington, M H McEvilly.
Ind — Notre Dame, Sister Katherine, per John
Howley, Cairo, Ill — Whitefeld, J H McCarthy —
Indianapolis, Rev. Brother Aloysius
Ia — Burlington, P Sheedy — Harper's Ferry ,Rev
M Sheehan.
Kans — Lincoln Centre, Ed Dillon, G Downey,
per Mr Dillon (Mr Dillon has sent very interesting
matter for publication but, like O'Curry's Lectures
was crushed out this issue.
Mass — Easthampton, P Flynn — Lawrence, John
O'Sullivan, per T Griffin.
Me — Portland, John A Egan (Why Portland
Brothers, who have some of the best Irish scholars
in the country, dont you form an Irish class?).
Minn — Waterville, J Murphy, per P O'Leary.
Mo — Pierce City, Rev D Healy, D O'Neill — St
Louis, Mrs. H Cloonan (who wants Fr O'Growneys
Lessons), P Hannon.
Nebr — South Omaha, Ed. Carey.
N Y — Brasher Falls, Cornelius Hallahan, — Co¬
hoes, James Barnes — City, T Erley, Miss M A La¬
vin, per Mr Erley; Miss Susie Eames, per Captain
Norris, Capt Norris ; Thomas Young, The Philo-
Celtic Society (5), per C Manning, Treasurer.
O — Martins Ferry, M Padden, M Kerns, per D
J McCormick, Wheeling. W Va — Youngstown, Rev
John P Brennan.
Pa — Osceola Mill, H McCann — Allentown, F R
McCarthy — Phila., Miss Mary Mahoney, Mrs Thos
McGowan (Mrs McGowan keeps a millinery estab¬
lishment at 220 So. 16th St. successor to Miss Ida
L Frotscher. She can lisp their sweet tongue with
all Gaelic ladies who pay her a visit) — Pittsburg,
Thos. J Madigan — Scranton, P F May, who paid
us a pleasant visit, and chucked a 10-dollal bill in¬
to the Gael's treasury.
R I — Providence, M O'Donoghue, J Fleming, M
J Sullivan, per Mr O'Donoghue.
Tenn — Clarkesville, M J Ginley.
Wash — Spokane, P R Howley, John N Beaton
— Colville, P D Cronin.
W Va — Wheeling, A Lally; D O'Brien, J Mon¬
ahan, and P Howley, per Dillon J McCormick
Wis — Hudson, Miss A E Fahey, per Thomas J
Lamb, Michigan, No Dak.
Canada — L'Ephanie, E Lynch, Esqr.
Ireland:
Cork — Lisquinlan, Timothy Gleeson, Esqr. —
Knockawillig, N School, P Lehane, — City, Model
School, T Cronin, both per Captain Norris, 40 Wa¬
ter Street, N Y City — Knocknagown, D Herlihy,
per Rev D Healy, Pierre City, Mo.
Kerry — Cahirdaniel, J O'Sullivan — Killarney, P
O'Connell — Kilgarvan, Killarney, P Buckley —
Masterguihy, P Sugrue, the above four N School
Teachers, also, per Capt. Norris, 40 Water St N Y
Mayo — Doolough, R McCarrick, per A Lally,
Wheeling, W Va — Ballygarries N School, M May
— Lisatava, M Mylott, Esq., C E, both per P F
May (the builder), Scranton, Pa.
Sligo — Corbally. Martin Howley, Esq., P L. G.
— Culleens, M Sheridan, both per P R Howley,
England — Garston, Thos O'Donovan, per M J
Darcy, Pontiac, Ill — Coventry, R Foley, per Rev
Brother Aloysius, Indianapolis, Ind — St. Hellens,
C Gilligan, per P J Gilligan, Wheeling, W Va.
Gaels, every one of you can claim the credit of
the present satisfactory state of the language
movement, because you kept the patriotic fire a¬
blaze until the surrounding Anglo-saturated sods
were overcome by the torrid intensity of its beat.
We could not do it by ourself, nor could we do it
so well were it not for the extra liberality of some
lay subscribers, and a large number of clericals
who, apart from their regular subsciptions, ex¬
tended to the Gael a liberal hand.
You have in your little journal, Gaels, the por¬
agator of an invincible organization. Follow up
your victory; the enemies of Irish autonomy are
numerous and powerful. Let your actions be "E¬
ternal Vigilance," and the scattering, broadcast,
of your literature; which is the indisputable pass¬
port for your right to your nationhood.
From authentic statistics collected by the home
workers, 6,000 persons in Ireland have learned to
read Irish through Fr O'Growney's Lessons in
the Freeman's Journal. That is a substantial ev¬
dence of the cogency of our contention all along
of the necessity, to success, of the dissemination
of the national literature. Any one with brains
enough to be outside an asylum knows that with¬
out an organ to advertise it no movement, politi¬
col or otherwise, can be successful. Hence, it fol¬
lows, that Irishmen who neglect or refuse to
help in the promotion of Irish literature do not
desire Irish autonomy. — The conclusion is enevi¬
table.
The Irishmen of New York and vicinity can ob¬
tain gratuitous instruction in the language of Ire¬
land by calling at the rooms of the P. C. Society,
263 Bowery, on Thursday evenings from 8 to 10,
and on Sunday afternoons from 8 to 6, o'clock.
