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AN GAODHAL.
Britannia. There can be no question as to the root
of the word Angle. Besides the word angle is a
dissyllabic — the gentile name, whereas the race-
name is a monosyllabic primitive word.
When we started this journal and entered it at
the Post Office, it was over twelve months before
the officials could spell its name rightly. We en¬
tered it An Gaodhal, and in our receipts for a
long time the name was variously spelled, Angohal,
Angeil, Angeal, Angale, until by repeatedly tel¬
ling them that An was the article (the) and
Gaodhal, the name of the paper, they came to write
it correctly, and it was in this way that the An Gael
of North Britain became Angle — the transposition
of letters in Gaelic being common, as fogus, near,
nios foisge, nearer.
It might be interposed as an objection to Dr.
Mackay's statemant that successive historians did
not mention Angles as a branch of the Celts. In
reply to such objection we would say that modern
historians were generally inimical to the Gaelic
element, and even if they were not, that they fol¬
lowed in the footsteps of their predecessors, with¬
out taking the trouble of examining the true state
of things. No one can say that O'Molloy, Dr. O'¬
Donovan, Prof. Joyce, were not friendly to the I¬
rish language. Yet, by not taking the proper
steps to inform themselves, they died under the im¬
pression that the Gaelic monosyllabic verb was, by
very great odds, more numerous than the other
verbs. Well, the readers of the GAEL know now —
it is no statement, it is a fact which the dictionary
proves — that the other verbs which these profess¬
ors believed to be only insignificant exceptions are
just ten times more numerous than those which
they called the verb. There are new discoveries
every day — so simple that people wonder why they
were not made sooner, But, Providence did not
ordain it. That's all.
The Irish-American parent who takes no pains
to instruct his children on the foregoing matter is
not doing his duty as a parent. Let him instruct
them in the fact that the "Great Anglo-Saxon
Race" is merely a mixture of a few Saxon pirates,
and the fag end of his own element, the An Gaels
of North Britain; that the very name, England.
is a corruption and contraction of Angael-land,
and his children in future ages will be more grate¬
ful to him than if he left them millions of wealth.
Some years ago when the British offered a title
to The O'Connor Don, people were surprised that
he did not accept it. What would be accept? and
from whom? A title from the fag end of his own
tribe!
Our British "friends" want to make it appear
that they govern Irishmen because of their superi¬
or intelligence and civilization. The reverse is the
fact. It is in the power of Irishmen to raze every
city in England with the ground to day, and it is
their superior intelligence and civilization which
make them shrink from the horrors which such
wholesale destruction would inevitably entail — a
humane consideration which never stood in the way
of their British "friends." Let them take care
that they do not strain the humane sentiments of
the Irish Gaels too much.
Now, thanks to Fords' Library, a little light
has been shed on the scene. We do not belittle
our British brethen, we want them to take their
hands of Ireland, and then, notwithstanding form¬
er persecutions, we shall live in friendship and
amity with them.
We are very proud of this little journal and of
the happily chosen title given to it, AN GAODHAL —
AN GAEL, the universal name of our race. Will it
ever come to pass that it will be the universal daily
organ of the race? Of that we have not the shad¬
ow of a doubt, and were there five hundred such
Irishmen as Mr. M. A. Feeney, of Virginia City, it
could be that to day. No one can imagine the ex¬
tent of the service already rendered to the Irish
elament by the publication of AN GAEL, and that
service will increase with its circulation. Hence,
it is the duty of every Irishman to circulate it —
not, if you will, to gratify the laudable pride which
its editor would naturally feel at such in¬
creased circulation, but to advance the social sta¬
tus of himself and his posterity.
The GAEL has readers enough now to make it
a weekly journal in less than six months if they will
it so.
We have found from our experience in canvass¬
ing for the Parnell Fund that two men going to¬
gether to canvass for such purpose will accomplish
more than a dozen working separately. Let, then,
the readers in the various cities and towns, during
their leisure hours, go in two and make a thorough
canvass, and if some feel diffident in canvassing
themselves, let them enlist the cooperation of even
non-readers possessed of a fair “cheek." If this
be done energetically, AN GAEL can be seen week¬
ly on every news stand in the Union, increased in
volume, and with the genuine stamp of the lan¬
guage before the admiring gaze of an exultant Irish-
American populace.
NEWSPAPERS IN 1887.
Geo. P. Rowell & Co., of New York, issued on
Monday May 2nd, the Nineteenth Annual edition
of their standard publication, the "American
Newspaper Directory."
The new volume contains an exhaustive list of
all Class Publications so admirably arranged that
any one of the three thousand papers represented
there can be readily referred to and all important
facts concerning it, together with its circulation,
rating, easily obtained.
The Newspaper Directory will be used princip¬
ally by Publisher, Advertisers and Advertising A¬
gents, but the vast fund of information it contains
makes it valuable to persons of almost every trade
and profession. As a Gazetteer alone it is well
worth the price charged, $5.00, for it fully describes
every town in which a newspaper is issued, and few
people care to know about any place where one is
not.
The number of papers published in the United
States, Territories (including Alaska) and Canada
is put at 15,42c; an increase of 581 in one year.
The growth of newspapers in some of the West¬
ern States would be a matter of wonder, if it were
not that this year is no exception to the rule. In
Kansas the increase is 89, and in Nebraska 64:
while the Keystone State shows a smaller increase of
35 and the Buckeye State of 30. Pennsylvania exhi¬
bits the largest increase in dailies, 17; Kansas in
weeklies, 81: and New York in monthlies, 42.
Seven States show a decrease the most promi¬
nent instances being New Hampshire and Virginia,
six each. The whole volume shows that great
care has been taken to sustain its reputation as the
most comprehensive work of the kind yet publish¬
ed, and to insure accuracy in every detail. Any¬
thing less than a complete compendium of Ameri¬
can newspapers and periodicals would surprise
those who are familiar with the former efforts of
this firm, who are so well known as the oldest,
largest and best known of all the American Adver¬
tising Agencies.
