26
AN GAOḊAL
of New York,
Rt. Rev. Mgr. Conaty, Rector C. U
Rev. Rich. Henebry, Ph. D., Prof.
Gaelic C University,
Rev. P. J. Cunniffe, C. SS. R.,
Rev. Prof. E. O'Growney, M.R.IA
Rt. Rev. John J. Hogan, Kan. City
Richard Cavangh, Esq. Wash, DC
John D. Crimmins, Esq N. York,
W. Dillon, Esq. Ed New World,
Hon. John F. Finerty, Ed Citizen,
Patrick Ford, Esq, Ed. I. World,
Victor Herbert, Esq.
Walter Lecky, Esq.
Hon. John C. Linehan, Concord,
Hon. W. McAdoo, ex Asst S Navy
Wm J. Onahan, Esq, Chicago,
Maurice J. Power, Esq. New York,
Joseph Smith, Esq, Lowell, Mass,
Hon. Jas. S. Coleman, New York,
Hon. Jos. F. Daly, New York,
Hon. Thos. Dunn English, Newark
Hon, Jas. Fitzgarald, New York,
Hon. Thos. J. Gargan, Boston,
Dr. Thos. Hunter. N. Y. N. College
John G. Lee, Esq., New York,
P. J. Meehan, Esq. Ed. I. American
Thos. Hamilton Murray, Sec-Genrl
American-Irish Hist. Soc,
John J. O'Shea, Ed Phil. C S etc,
Prof. F. N Robinson. Harvard Uni¬
versity
Robt. Ellis Thompson, Prest. Cen¬
tral High School, Phila
J. J. C. Clarke, Ed. “Criterion. N.
York.
Now we would remind our Irish-
American friends (under ordinary
conditions it would be tantamount
to an insult to intelligence to sug¬
gest it) that the progress, health
and life of any laudable movement
is to advertise it. This can be done
to the Gaelic League of America
at very little expense to the indivi¬
dual by a combined effort of all.
It has been truly said that the
thousands upon thousands of Cath¬
olic Churches which the Irish have
built throughout the world have
been constructed with the pennies
of the poor. Next to the salvation
of his soul, the most important aff¬
air of civilized man is, the care of
his children No Irishman cares for
his children until he has clothed
them with a coat of mail as a def¬
ense against the assaults of their
enemies. The assaults in this ins¬
tance are the slanders of their op¬
pressors, seeking to justify them in
that oppression by representing
the Irish as ignorant and intracta¬
ble.
The League will show the world
that when England got control in
Ireland it was known to Christen¬
dom as the Island of Saints and
Scholars. The truth of this histo¬
rical fact has compelled bigoted,
anti-Irish writers to acknowledge
it. If Erin became ignorant since
England took control there, who
then, is responsible for the change?
Why, England! The exposition of
this nefarious conduct by the gov¬
erning classes of Great Britain is
what the Gael suggested in its last
issue when it said that the dead
walls of America should be placar¬
ded with it.
Some timid souls ask the nonsen¬
sical question: Do you intend to in
troduce the Irish Language in Am¬
erica. No; we intend to urge and
help our people to preserve it in
Ireland and therewith our Nation¬
al identity, and as a proof of our
ancient civilization and enlighten¬
ment, and as a protest to the au¬
dacious presumption of those who
claim the present twenty-five mill¬
ions of our kindred as Anglo-Sax¬
on.
Let all Irishmen who spurn to
be called Anglo-Saxon circulate the
Gael.
