Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-11-28
DR. HYDE IN HARTFORD
Noted Gaelic Scholar Who is Coming
 to Waterbury,

| " W@s~&1@Sys
 Dr Hyde, the promoter of the Gaelic
 schools in America, was in Hartford
 last evening where he made an ad
 dress to representative audience ant
 explained his business in this country
 He has come to the United States tc
 teach what he has been teaching in
 Ireland for fifteen years-that Irish.
 men shall know themselves. His slo- gan is Irish Independence of intellect. In Celtic this is 'Sinn Fein Amhain. ?
 In English it means Yourselves Alone 2 Dr. Hyde organized the Gaelic league
 ten years ago. He Is a western Irish
 man of thoughtful mind and active body.
 The philosophy of the whole move
 ment in behalf of the intellectual inde-
 pendence of Ireland" he said the other
 night, 'fs to interest Irishmen in some
 thing-anything at all tending to i'm
 prove the mind; to get Erishmen ab-
 sorbed in their own country, to make
 them stay there and to recover those
 who have left. We want, in a word,
 to revitalize the island and the people
 We want Ireland to be what it was
 years ago. a country of character, of
 magnificent people, of promise and of
 grandeur of intellect and industry.
 Up to a few years ago Ireland had forgotten that 1t had history or Iitera-
 ture or music. Irishmen had been
 taught for three generations the his-
 tory of England. Instruction in the
 Irish language was not permitted in the primary schools. The average
 Irishman when he wanted to sing something would chant the English
 Tar-ra-ra-boom-de-ay' or some other English music hall ditty. Today he is singing Believe Me, if All Those En- dearing Young Charms and other of the old Irish ballads. Whenhe wanted to read something he would select a class of literature on par with your Nick Carter or Old Sleuth.' Today he is reading Charles Lever and Samuel Lover.
 This is what we have been encour- aging for the last ten years, and we are succeeding. The Gaelic league now has 100000 members or more. They are the men who are telling Ireland to know itself. And of that 100000 they are aI- most to a man total abstainers from in- toxicating drink, which, you will ap- preciate. means a world to the future of the race.
 T came over to lay before the Irish in America just what we have been do- ing at home. We have worked a Ire mendous revolution in Ireland. It has no political significance yet. It is sim ply an intellectual fight at this stage. What it may lead to can be conjec- tured. Our work is to effect the self centering and self reliance of Ireland.
 We are effecttng great intellectual upheaval. The people are beginning to 1 interest themselves in the country as they never did before. For three gener- ations they have had no country. They were treated by England as the mon grels of civilization. They were taught 1 that they had no race and that they were g little bit of everything, mostly English. But we are teachfng them | better. Today 5000 of the 10000 Irish | schools are teaching the Irish language. The young are being taught to converse n their native tongue When at home I | 'peak it altogether. Thousands of Irishmen are doing the same thing.
 The English government is doing everything possible to suppress the movement It wants a benighted Ire land. Formerly the government all | owed the payment of result fees based upon the results accomplished in i ,ur schools. 4 few years ago these lees. based on the teaching of the Irish anguage. amounted to less than E1.OOO year. Today they amount to f12.OOO year. That amount represented a one hundred and fiftieth part of the money pent upon Irish education Now they lave taken it away from us. Is that fght: The Irish people ought to have hat money, no matter how they want 0 use it, even if they wanted to spend in blowing soap bubbles. England loesn't want Ireland to retain it's Ian 'uage. the oldest vernacular except the 'reek in Europe, or any other heredi- ary characteristic. But we will have hem all. They shall be rejuvenated.
 The movement will help Ireland in- lustrially. Already mills and facto- ies, especially those engaged in the 10th trades. are swelling in prosperity. Rishmen are now able to get work at ome. and in few years more I pre- let that emigration will almost entire ' cease. Today 10000 of our best oung Irish men and women of the larriageable type leave Ireland for Lmerica every year. This drain will cease And I look to see 1any Irish in this country return to heir native soil Our movement must y.d r.-FIf