The sun., 1905-11-27
HYDE'S APPEAL FOR GAELIC.
HELP 10 DEANGLTCIZE IRELAND,
HE ASKS FRESHMEN HERE.
Meeting In Carnegie Hail Cheers the Utter
ances Of tlle Right Arm Of the League
Which 10 Trying TO Make Irishnen
Spenk Their Original Language

whether It was u man or county, cheercd
ns heartily for the support Of the Protestant
Bishop OF Derry as they did Tor tho ap-
proval OF the Cardinal Bishop Of Armagh
The audience surely was with Dr. Douglas
in his crusade for the eanglization" OF
Ireland.
Supreme Court Justice Martin j. keogh
was the chairman OF the meeting and many
prominsnt Irishmen were on the stage
Justice Ksogh introduced W. Bourke Cock
ran; who spoke In praise Of the Irish Ian
puaee and literature, Unnecessary Ian
puages, he said, always died, and the fact
that Gaelic had lived through years OF
difficulty showed that it was necessary for
human development. The English peasant
has but 500 words In his vocabulary, while
the Irish peasant has from 1000 to Sooo'
Justice Victor J. Dowling OF the Supreme
Court offered resolutions expressing sym
pathy with the work Of the Gaelic League,
urging cooperation with Its purposes and
Endorsing the claim of the league that the
Irish people should have controlling yolGe
The meeting passed the resolutions with
Justice Keogh introduced Dr.. Hyde as
the brain and soul Of the Gaelic move
ment; "a patriot and scholar. .,.,.
DR. Hyde is an earnest and interstinR
taIker, with a great deal of force in his Ian
e1iaee and gestures. He startled the au-
dience by starting TO speak in Gaelic it
was evident that several hundred of his
hearers understood him, for there was fire.
ulent applause and an occasional com
ment In Gaelic from the gallery. He spoke
in Irish for five minutes, then pretended
surprise at the astonished looks OF some
Q of the vice-presidents, and began in Eng
hsh. He sald In part;
en- not exaggeratIne when l say that
-,
race In America az the most valuable asset
that the Irish Ireland movement at home
could possibly have and knowing as | 90
that practically every man. woman ana
child u ireland has near relative or per-
hapsAalf o dozen near relatives in the States,
know tho Immense reflex influence that you
can. II you only wish II. exert upon Ireland,
and say again that would sooner for the
sake of Irish ireland have your sympathy
and moral support than ha We 100000 poured
into the treasury OF the Gaelic League to-
morrow, 90,
am hspe Tonight to explain TO you the lie
and death struggle upon which We are en-
cared, | see 1t said here by the more sym
pathetic OF the papers that Ireland Ia engaged
upon the last grand battle of the race for the
preservation Of its language. Oh, gentle
men, gentlemen. IL is more than that, ten
times, one hundred times more than that
we are engaged upon the last grand battle OF
the Irish race for the preservation oil It's own
identity.
We have ~ow opened the eyes of the entire
nation to the awful chasn that lay before
them into witch they were about to step
blindfolded, the yawning gulf OF angHcAa-
ton, which, believe me, Is only another name
for national extinction.
And when once you in America understand
that--and 1 shall have failed in my mission
tonight il | do not make you understand
I know Tint Will iOiu in saw
inp 10 the devourlug demon OF an glici2ation
In Ireland which with It's foul and glnttonons
laws has swallowed up one after another
everything that was hereditary, natural. IN
stinctive ancient intellectual. and noble IN
our race, our language. our music. our songs,
our industries. our dances ana our pastIIheS'
know, | say that you will plant your feet
firmly and will cry with us, Back demon,
back. not one other mouthful shall ron swal-
low of the heritage of the Irish nation.
Now. the movement upon which we are
engaged tonight il not the movement OF rev
faddists--it has long passed ont OF that
stage Papers in Ireland whose policy is on
other matters radically opposed to one
another are now at last al on" IN recognizing
the necessity Of OVr movement. The Dublin
c1dcr for instance, and the Dublin fuHed
Jrishmdr, which do not see eve TO eye on
other things, cordially agree about tho ne
Csssity of our work. thdrCh!nau, lkc the
Archbishop Of puhliu and the Cardinal
Archbisbop of Armagh Iapp.usc are al one
with ia upan il
rycn tho organ of the Iuier,nlr Orange
men whp have socCdcl froNl'thr on iul body.
saws II is movement no Protestant need br
ashamed of. The Protestant bishop Of Derry
lprplauFcl at II church Conference called
liz, attention Of the Protestant Nurth To our
movement iu tho most sympathetic tones.
One Of our l,-t festivals was that held at
1orme Bridge upon the Fan, the home OF
urriimprat H. faction huhtS b,tNrrm PTUtcN-
,auts and Catholics. The lCaGrr of the Irish
Parliamentary party himorif has spoken of its
inheritance in the most emphatic terms
On many "cca solS and his p~ n children are
learning Irsh
So that vou see W. have now a great mass
of publio opinion IN ireland UeEGnd lis. And
van also see hat ,vc are 10 Clique. No faction,
n, partv. but tn"t Wr embrace some Of all
parties and all factions aai that Offending
nobody except the anti-!rishWan, We stand
firm upon the pure. Unmorahle bedrock OF
Irish nationality. lr une word, we mean to
de-Anylirlr Ireland.
| honor and respect most sincerely what
Is good in the great English race. yield to
me- man in my apprcu alton Of their perse-
ycrance their business faculty. their praOti-
Cnl qualities. Hey nav" '"ioi'|e" many
th.,v ,pllt4J into pNt.tpUYp -