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“A nation which allows her language to go to
ruin, is parting with the best half of her intellectual
independence, and testifies to her willingness to cease
to exist." — ARCHBISHOP TRENCH.
Read what the truths of history have compel¬
led the bigotted Spaulding (profr. of logic, Rugby
University, England) to write. —
“The Green Isle contained, for more centuries
than one, more learning than could have been col¬
lected from the rest of Europe. * * * It is not
thus rash to say that the Irish possess contempo¬
rary histories of their country, written in the lang¬
uage of the people, from the fifth century. No oth¬
er nation of modern Europe is able to make a sim¬
ilar boast." — SPAULDING's ENGLISH LITERATURE,
APPLETON & Co., N Y.
The
Gael.
A monthly Journal devoted to the Cultivation and
Preservation of the Irish Language and the au¬
tonomy of the Irish Nation.
Published at 814 Pacific st., Brooklyn, N. Y.
M. J. LOGAN, - - - Editor and Proprietor
Terms of Subscription — $1 a year to students, 60
cents to the public, in advance ; $1. in arrears.
Terms of Advertising — 20 cents a line, Agate.
Entered at the Brooklyn P. O. as 2nd-class matter
Eleventh Year of Publication.
VOL 9, No. 3. APRIL, 1892
Remember that the First Irish Book is given free
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Possibly the reader has never seen a finer poem in
any language than that on the opposite page. In
it are combined the sentiment of Moore and the
self reliant martial fire of Davis. None of them has
come up to it. The air to it is a fine, stirring march,
and we suggest to the Gaelic Society to have it on
their programme at their coming Feis Ceoil.
Irishmen, circulate your literature. You should
have a Gaelic journal in every town and city; The
Gael is yet your only journal — scatter it broadcast.
On you, Gaels, the burden must rest, for your An¬
glicised brethren have been blinded by their English
education to the danger which surrounds them.
AMERICAN GÆLS.
According to the most reliable authority the pop¬
pulation of the United States to-day is made up of
the following elements, —
Irish. ... ... ... 25,000,000.
Scotch. Welsh, French Spanish, Italian, 12,000,000,
English or so-called Anglo-Saxon, 5,000,000,
German and Scandinavian ... 14,000,000,
Colored and all other nationalities, 9,000,000,
Total, ... ... ... 65,000,000.
The English may bave been given more than has
been their right in this calculation, for their number
in 1790 was 841,800, while the Irish numbered
1,141,920, the entire population of the United States
at the time being 3,500,000.
The natural increase of the 841,800 would amount
to about 3,500,000 to-day; but it is an open secret
that the New England element did not increase in
the natural order. Taking this in connection with the
fact that very few English people immigrated to the
United States since the War of Independence, pref¬
ering Canada and Australia, the five millions accord¬
ed them must be on the outside. Four millions is
nearer the mark.
The above figures are not taken from pro-Irish
writers : they are from the calculations of Blod¬
get. Sevbert Bury (an English baronet), Tucker,
Bromwell Grahame. etc., and accepted by Apple¬
ton's Cyclopӕdia the best authority in the country.
It may be noted that our Territorial accessions since
the War of Independence were peopled by French
and Spaniards.
Why do we call attention to these figures ? Because
this handful of English through cheek, cohesion
and perfact organization and the instrumentality of
a subsidized press are ruling the country. They
have two prosperous dailies in New York city, the
Evening Past and the Times (the latter said to be
controlled by an Irishman, ex-Mayor Grace), and
another in Brooklyn, the Eagle. These papers are
prosperous whether they have subscribers or not ;
and if England laid claim to Long Island all of
them would support her in her demand as they have
done in the Alaskan seal grab.
Had the Irish a national press and supported it as
the English support theirs, the twenty-five millions
of their race in America would be a solid, united
mass to-day. But, what are they? A butt to the
buffers who are fattening on their disorganized and,
therefore, helpless, condition. Irishmen pretending
to leadership disengenuously say, “You would not
want to introduce the Irish Language here.” Ah,
here is where the evil genius dogging the footsteps
of the Irish race has had its source and has its life.
And those making the assertion do so knowing that
they prevaricate. The different states of Germany
preserve and practice their several languages along
