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AN GAODHAL.
We hope that those in arrears to
the Gael will pay up and notif us if
they do not desire to continue their
support of the Gaelic movement. In
all decency they should do this as we
have never ceased to send the paper
even to those to whom it was financial¬
ly inconvenient to be up to time.
Now, when a party becomes a sub¬
scriber to a paper the publisher may
cease to send it after the termination
of the subscription; but this is consid¬
ered a discourtesy, to the supscriber
and is not resorted to by publishers.
Then, in courtesy, the publisher conti¬
nues to send the paper and if the sub¬
scriber does not notify him to discon¬
tinue it he is considered as continuing
his subscription, and is legally liable.
Again, a notice by a subscriber to
discontinue is not valid unless accom¬
panied by all arrearages, and the pub¬
lisher may continue to send and sue
for the whole amount; and it makes
no difference through what medium
the subsciption originated, whether di¬
rect or otherwise — That's the Law.
We have received 1£ 5s from the Rev. E. D.
Cleaver, Dolgelly, North Wales, who orders the
Gael to be sent therefor to Messrs. T. Hurley, N.
School Portmagee, Valencia Island. Patrick Gar¬
vey, Kilroe N. School, Headford, co Galway. D.
Duggan, Spidal N. School, co. Galway. M. Man¬
ning, Ferriter N. School co Kerry, and F. Lynch,
Kilmakerin N. School, Cahirciveen, co. Kerry,
all, of course, of Ireland.
Gaels, follow the example of your patriotic coun¬
tryman, Mr. Cleaver, send a few copies of the Gael
to every one of the 45 N Schools, in which the lan¬
guage is being taught, as a premium for diligence
in Gaelic study. That, and not loud talk, is the
way to promote the end of the Gaelic Movement.
The Rev. Mr. Cleaver, has kindly sent us a copy
of a Welsh English and English-Welsh dictionary.
It is five inches in length by three and a half inch¬
es in width containing 748 pages — 310 Welsh-En¬
glish and 432 English Welsh. It is printed in Non-
pariel, and though the page is much smaller it con¬
tains more words than O'Reilly's Dictionary.
Mr. Dever is doing excellent work for the Geal¬
ic movement in Cleveland, O.
Let the friends of the Gaelic movement through
the country endeavor to get the newspapers in
their various locations to notice the Gael, its object
and the movement in general. A country paper
could not print a more interesting fairy tale than a
translation of
Naomh Pádhraic ⁊ na h-aithreacha Nimhe.
and we hope some of our readers will mention it to
them.
We may by and by publish the translations in
parallel columns with the original Gaelic.
We have no encouragement for Father Hand in
relation to his Irish-American historical society pro¬
ject. If a few really patriotic and energetic men
in our large towns and cities took the matter in
hand they could publish and circulate all the books
they want. These should organize their various
localities, and if they could not organize a society
large enough for the desired end, they could, uni¬
tedly, enlarge the Gael and publish such matters
in its columns as would be desired to preserve and
circulate. In our next issue we shall name some
few men (such as Mr. M'Cosker, Mobile) in the diff¬
erent cities, and put them in communication with
each other, with a view to such organization.
THE GAEL is the property of the Gaelic race,
and it is fitting that it should be the instrument
wherewith to preserve and circulate its records.
WHERE DOES IRELAND COME IN?
We asked an Irish-American Republican politi¬
cian, who is a blatant Irish Nationalist, to join the
Boycott League. "Tut, tut," said he "do you
want to drive all the Englishmen in the Republic¬
an party into the Democratic Free Trade party."
We next called on a Democratic Irish-American
politician and asked him also. "Ah, hem," grun¬
ted he, "a Republican scheme to catch Democratic
votes." The query recurs, Where does Ireland
come in?
The Tipperary boycott reads like a fairy tale —
the removal of a town, the town of Tipperary from
off the state of Smith Barry and placing it on the
lands of a friendly neighboring landlord puts in
the shade the Boston boycott of Revolutionary
times. The Tips. are a brave people at home; but
why not boycott England here as well as there?
The Irish at home seem like young foals — full of
life and frolic — but when transferred to these frien¬
dly shores, become "asses."
The Labor demonstrations throughout the world
during the month are wholesome signs of the com¬
ing freedom of man from monarchy and des¬
potism. All that remains for European Labor to
do is, to insist on the same scale of wages as that
which is being paid to American Labor. Then free
trade and protection would be eliminated from Am¬
erican politics.
How can people place reliance on so called his¬
tory when facts which have transpired within the
last fifteen years are distorted through personal en¬
vy? A long article appeared in the New York
Daily News a few weeks ago purporting to give
the history of the organization of the Gaelic move¬
ment in America which does not contain one word
of truth in relation to the foundation of that move¬
ment, and, in confirmation of this assertion, we re¬
fer the reader to the columns of the IRISH WORLD
of 1872.
This is the History of the Irish Language Move¬
ment in America, and it was not prompted or ass¬
isted by the members of any other society —
1872, The agitation to preserve the language com¬
menced by Gael (M. J. Logan) in the Irish
World — The first Irish Class organized.
1874 The Brooklyn Gaelic Class given the name,
Philo-Celtic Society.
