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AN GAODHAL
we would deny to any one the in¬
alienable right to choose whatever
church he pleased but because Irish
Catholics who renounce their fore¬
fathers' religion become the deadly
enemies to Irish autonomy, Hence,
when we take up any of the Cath¬
olic directories and see that in the
United States there are less than
10,000,000 Catholics, of all nations
we ask ourself, "what has become
of the 15,000,000 of Irish and Irish
descent in the country, and we find
the answer to be : To escape the
the terms "Ignorant Irish" applied
exclusively to the Catholic Irish by
the enemies of their race and reli¬
gion, they join the protestant sects
or become infidel; otherwise there
would have been 12,000,000 Irish
Catholics in the United States to
day.
A vigorous prosecution in every
town and city of the Union of the
programme of the Gaelic League
of America can stay the defection,
The Gael was very indignant at
the time that Cardinals Gibbons
and Logue joined the English Car¬
dinal Vaughan in recommending
an alliance between this country
and England. But, on reconsider¬
ing the matter, the fact struck us
that wherever the British flag flies
now, the Catholic missionaries are
in full sway, and that it was the
duty of the servants of the Church
to extend the British power. Of
course, since the passage of the Ca¬
tholic Emancipation act of 1829,
Catholics can practise their religion
in all parts of the British Empire,
though materially, they are more
cruelly governed in Ireland to-day
than the Cubans have been. Fifteen
million dollars a year over their pro
rata of the government tax have
been wrung from the poor helpless,
starving people !
Send 60 cents for the Gael, for a year.
Since the death of the patriotic
founder of the New York Sun, the
careful reader cannot fail to notice
the visible deterioration of the pa¬
per, in tone and make up. Had the
grand old man who made his belo¬
ved Sun the best newspaper in the
world an idea that it would be to¬
day advocating an alliance with
the inveterate enemy of his coun¬
try, he would turn in his grave!
The Catholic Connecticut has ceas¬
ed to exist, and the Catholic Trans¬
cript has sprung from its ashes. We
are sorry for the exit of the Catholic
Connecticut, for it always breached a
real Irish sentiment. We cannot say
how we shall like the Transcript; but
this we do say emphatically — that we
did not like to see it copy, without one
word of comment, a letter written to
Mr Stead by Cardinal Vaughan recom¬
mending an alliance of all the English-
speaking peoples: Pope or Cardinal,
the Englishman is for England all the
time!
ÉIRE
Gídh buaidhte, treith ; buaidheóchaidh tú,
Gídh teilgthe síos ; éireóchaidh tú.
An Gabhar Donn
Ní'l neach fa neamh gan gruaim ná crádh
D'a theastughadh-sa gach uair a's tráth;
Tóg suas do cheann tá Dia 'n a rígh,
'S riaghlóchaidh sé — Tóg suas do chroídhe
An Gabhar Donn.
"Tig an t-saoirse féin ó láimhdheis Dé."
Nach binn an dán a chluinim!
Nar sheinn an bárd go glórmhar, glé
Budh mhaith liom féin do sheinnim?
Chómh binn leis abhrán mór na saoirse —
Go mbéidh tú saor mar bhídhis, a thír-se !
An Gabhar Donn
The Brooklyn Philo-Celtic Society
has taken its annual vacation ; it will
resume its literary exercises early Sep¬
tember.
