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AN GAODHAL.
NA GAODHAIL BÁITHTE.
Diarmuid O'Duinabháin Rosa, Fear
Eagair an t-aon Pháipéir Éirionnach
Eobhrach Nuadh, Éire-mhór.
A Shaoi dhíl, ghrádhmhar:
Feiceamuid go bh-fuil na Gearma¬
naigh & na Sasanaigh ar aon aigne anns
an tír so. Bliadhain a's mi na Samhna
so chuaidh thart anns an m-baile beag so
do chuir h-aon mhac máthar acu a m-bill¬
od do Ghróbher Clíbhland. Do bhí na h-
Éireannaighe i n-éirighe láimh roimh so ach
tá siad báithte, & bhaith siad gan chúis
cuid chródha 'na measg. Is daingean do
ghreamaigh Béarla Shasanaigh ann sclabh¬
uigheacht in ar g-croidhe, & d'a bhárr sin
is féidir le bainríoghan Shasanaigh a fal¬
laing do chasa le na cúig-ceud milliún
dollair san tír seo thímchioll Ghaodhail-
& na h-oifigidhe beaga; beagán do chath¬
adh chugainn ach na h-árd oifigidh i Mhas¬
ington, sin rud eile. Ní'l ann Carl
Schurs le deunadh ach an focal do
sgríobh 'sna páipéir Gearmanaibh & béidh
na Heisínidhe go léir air a thaobh Ní
mar sin atá na Gaodhail ach 'tarraint
mar so & mar rúd na seola tosuidh no
deirigh amach chum an n-gaoith farsaing,
& d'a bhrigh sin báithfear sinn ann. Seo
muir Bhéarla, nach an losgadh croidhe é
le rádh gur traebh gan teanga sinn.
Tá ar Raparigh Righeacht Éireann Dir¬
mid Ua Duineabháin Rossa, úghdar aon
pháipéar, & M. J. Ua Lócháin, úghdar an
t-aon pháipeur Gaodhilge sa tír so, ag
iarra ríf an anma chuir anns na h-Éi¬
reannaighibh chum a d tarruing air ar d¬
teanga chiúin, chaomh féin, ach faraoir is
deacair an fhaobhairt sin do chur ionta
Leis so móthuimis ó árd Seanóir
scoil Pharagon, ag glaodhach air mhnáibh &
fearaibh uaisleacht Gaodhailge, páipéir
Rossa, & Lócháin.
Do bheith chugam láim, deunta 'n t-ocht¬
mhadh lá fichead Samhna, míle ocht gceud
trí & nócha.
Muiris Ua Donnigh.
It seems our friend Downey thinks much of his
Paragon School.
THE MAYOR'S APPOINTEES — POOR
Prospects for the City.
It is a well established fact that the general pub¬
lic view with suspicion those members of the com¬
munity who never tire of defaming their neighbors,
because the very traits of character which they de¬
lineate of others are (by experience) assumed to be
the reflection of their own; as, for instance, no one
ever heard a bawd speak well of a decent woman.
This then, being the general estimate of such a
class of persons, an appointment made by Mayor
Schierin to the head of a very important depart¬
ment of the City Government, forces the matter vi¬
vidly on our mind In an interview reported in the
Eagle of Feb. 26, '92, the appointee referred to is
reported to have said (in his chagrin at the paucity
of the attendance at his anti snapper meeting of the
night previous in the Criterion Theatre). —
“If these members of the community are satisfi¬
ed to have Messrs. Croker, Sheehan, Hill, Murphy.
etc.; in charge of the White House, the United
States treasurry, of the navy and other large depart¬
ments of the government, rather than speak and act
now, their silence and lassitude are explained."
Now as this defamatory whine is leveled at the
Irish element, we, as a member thereof, directly lay
at his door, on the strength of the general public
acceptation, the very traits which he, to all intents
and purpose, predicated of them. The Messrs Ward,
Field, Keeney, Vail, et al, the bank wreckers, his
political associates, would, in his estimation, be
the fit parties to take charge of the United States
Treasury', etc. Not only is states prison starring in
face the leader of the political gang of blacklegs to
which this person belongs but it is a patent fact that
he was a principal party in defrauding the City out
of $240,000 in the reservoir job alone. These censors
remind one of the footpad who shouts 'murder, po¬
lice' ! when he has his knee on the throat of his vic¬
tim while he rifles his pocket. These footpads used
John Y McKane as a scapegoat when he ceased to
advance their purposes, but he will have the pleas¬
ure to see the chief bugler of the gang break stone
in Sing Sing when he reaches there — Surely, though
the 'mills of heaven grind slow they grind exceeding
fine'.
We much regret that the Republicans permitted
themselves to be grappled by that unsavory gang;
but unfortunately some of its leaders have not yet
wholly emerged from the filthy Iair of mugwumpia.
It is said that the children of darkness are more wi¬
ly than the children of light — the circumvented Re¬
publicans prove the adage. The darklanterners saw
the coming storm (it was their creature) and got the
gommed Republicans to shelter them, using their
fine kid gloves in its construction! The Republic¬
ans of Brooklyn will have to throw this fossil that
is continually leading to disaster aside.
Mugwumpism is a curse. It halts at nothing, be
it ever so desperate, to attain its end. On election
morning its organ issued an extra (prepared the day
before) saying that the McKanes were murdering the
people at Coney Island so as to influence the voters
here. It now threatens the Board of Aldermen with
extinction if it does not do so and so. These are as
grave offences against the election laws as McKane's
