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AN GAOḊAL.
poraries get THE SUN of the above
date and copy the whole article ?
Oh, no. Had the Sun a paragraph
on the brutality of the drunken
Jimmy O’Brien, Clonmel, towards
his wife, it would have been in all
the Irish American papers.
Of course, the little Gael is noth¬
ing because no influence surrounds
it that can veer its course contrary
to genuine lrish interests: — Ire¬
land to-day, is not the starting
point of studious, far-seeing Irish¬
men.
Gaelic friends naturally complain that the Gael
does not appear on time every month as it did
when it was first published sixteen years ago. We
done the work of the Gael then, as we do now,
but it was then only eight pages — half the size of
what it is now — and we were then sixteen years
younger. After some time we doubled its size,
thinking that its enlargement would be the means
of increasing its income, so that we could employ
outside help on it. But that did not materialize.
So that to meet the importunities of our Gaelic
friends and to relieve our own mental and mate¬
rial strain, our only recourse is, to reduce it to its
original size — 8 pages, the work of which we our¬
selves can perform, and have it appear on time
every month. Over five hundred of the Gael's
subscribers (out of 1,400), professional men, doc¬
tors, lawyers, and well-to-do Irishmen, are now
in arrears to the Gael — some from five to seven
years.
Now, as we believe in personal liberty, we con¬
cede to these people the right of refusing to pat¬
ronize the Gael when their pleasure dictate it, but
not before they discharge their indebtedness to it,
and notify us of the fact as the law (or common
courtesy) requires.
We hope some of our readers who are handy with
the pencil will send us a sketch of the Irish wolf-
dog for the purpose of having it photoed and block¬
ed and substituted for the common house dog that
is now, and has been for some time, placed on the
Gael’s frontispiece to keep watch over the Irish
Language. The drawing should not be larger than
the cut now used. The Dog should be recumbent
surrounded on the right and hind part by a few
stray blades of sedge, ribgrass or fern, and in that
watchful attitude in which one sees it when intent
on a certain object. — In this case, the object of his
solicitude being the Teanga Ghaedhilge, lying be¬
ween him and the Harp.
Irishmen — You have to keep a watch over your
language — your Nationality — until England's sup¬
remacy has declined. Then you will see those W.
Britons, who are the only barrier to our aspirations,
forsake her as rats do a drowning ship — Then we
shall be FREE — not till then — and the signs of
the TIMES point to the near accomplishment of
that desirable end. — M. J. L. ]
"TRY"
When a young man in the pursuit of literary re¬
search 43 years ago, one of our studies was that of
phonography. In the pursuit of that study, we
met a character which we can never forget. — a lit¬
tle Dwarf named “Try.” Now, one of the most
predominant characteristics of Try's was, to TRY to
help out of their difficulties all those who were less
favored than himself.
We are in a difficulty now. — It is this. We
would like to place THE GAEL in the hands of every
Irishman in America but our financial means would
not afford it. With each issue of the paper we print
about Five Hundred extra copies and send them as
Samples all over the country. It is here that each
person who may get one of these Sample Copies
can help us out of our difficulty by handing that
copy (when read) to a neighbor, and that neighbor
to another, and so on, until the paper gets worn. —
Thus, instead of Five Hundred extra readers, ten
times five hundred would be made aware of the ex¬
istence of modern Gaelic literature and, each person
acting as requested, would be a counterpart of Pit¬
man's philantropic little Dwarf "Try."
The noted baudy-house raider, Rev (?) Park¬
hurst, compares Boss Croker to an ape or a gor¬
ila. Though apes and gorilas are pretty lively
yet we have no record of Boss Croxer as having
played frogleap with naked Nature.
Since the Seeley episode in New York, the
Mugwump press has somewhat abated its scurri¬
lous attacks on the the Sheehans and Murphies;
and since the forgery of election returns by the
"Better element” in Brooklyn, probably the
“Tammany Thugs” will get a little rest, also. —
Moral. Don't shout with a lascerated throat, or
you burst a blood-vessel.
The Irish Standard, Minneapolis
has entered on its 14th year It is
an excellently conducted weekly,
and the H. O. of Hibernians' organ
in Minnesota.
The Nation of San Franciso had
a spendid mortuary article on the
late Dr. O’Toole.
