Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04
NOTED GAELIC
SCHOLAR COMING
DR.. DOUGLAS HYDE WILL AR
RIVE FRIDAY
Elaborate Preparations Being maoe
for His Entertainment In This
city--WiII Deliver One
Address
OUTLINE OF HYDE'S PLANS

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! Saturday eVenins-oinner by :
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+ Monday evenlns-Address at the !:
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: Tuesday afternoon-Reception to !:
I DR.. and Mrs. Hyde by the Friday !.
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= dnesday-Departure for San I.
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DR.. Douglas Hyde, president and one
of the founders of the Gaelic league,
affectionately known throughout Ire
land as can Craoibhin Aoibhinn' (pro-
nounced "An Creeveen eeven), which
means "the delightful little branch"
will arrive in Los Angeles next Friday
and will be extensively entertained py
the local Gaelic and Celtic league and
clubs.
DR.. Hyde and his accomplished wife
will be guests of the Hotel Alexandra,
where a suite of apartments has been
engaged for them. Friday evening d
public reception will be rendered III
their honor at the hotel. the entire
mezzanine floor having been set aside
for the occasion. Saturday DIR. ana
Mrs. Hyde will rest and during the day
will be taken on an automobile tour of
the city. In the evening Bishop ConatY
will entertain them at dinner at the
episcopal residence.
Monday evening DR.. Hyde will de
liver an address on the aim and work
Of the Gaelic league at the Mason
opera. house. This will be the only ad-
dress made by him in Los Angeles.
Donates His Services
DIR. Hyde is working without salary
and all funds raised in the various
cities will be devoted to the revival of
the Gaelic language. The balcony of
the Mason opera house will he occupied
by the Celtic club, Ancient Order of
Hiberniaus, knights of Robert En-
NETT, Erin Republican club, OGroWney
branch Gaelic league, Caledonian So
ciety and the Welsh-American club.
Seats on the stage will be reserved for
200 vice presidents and the following
committee on arrangements: Bishop
Conaty, honorary president; Joseph
Scott. president; II. W. OMelveny,
vice president: j. e. Kays, treasurer;
DR.. j. W. Jones, secretary; II. G.
Dillon Malcolm Macleod, Leo j. Ma
guire, John S. McGroarity. T. J. Cum
ningham p. p. O'Brien, Lawrence
Brannlck, r. J. Coyne, Paul j. McCor-
mick and w. Joseph Ford, executive
committee.
The Friday Morning club will give
reception to DIR. and Mrs. Hyde. Tues
at WOn11n'S
house. Wednesday the distinguished
guests will leave for the north.
Douglas Hyde, doctor of laws, presi-
dent of the Gaelic league, poet, play
wright and philosopher, will not come
here with any message of hatred. His
theme is not the wrongs of Ireland,
past or present, but rather call for
effort for development along those lines
in which the Gael eXcels. He is a
promoter in the better sense of the
word. 1t is the message of the Gaelic
league to recognize the fact that Irish
and English are essentially different
so much so that they never can run
parallel.
His Message to Irishmen
DR.. Hyde asks above all that Irish
men should be themselves and not
merely an inferior imitation of Eng
IShmen. lie dIHrInS lndJ IIlSHlilel
leave Ireland because they have ceased
to feel that they have a country. They
will not accept England as their coun-
try and yet in the Ireland that the
Gaelic league found before it there was
nothing to suggest to them anything
but an imitation of England, and the
public mind had become hopelessly con
fused. Irishmen had no standard t.
live by and they emigrated by thu
thousands.
DIR. Hyde contends that it is the edic
of the Gaelic league to wipe out al
blots and to produce a harmonious
working of all classes in Ireland to tn
end of developing the best interests o
the race.
4 remarkable tribute to the tact an
discretion of DR.. Hyde is that Will
himself a Protestant he has the heart,
support of the Catholic hierarchy
clergy and laity Of Ireland and ha
received similar assurances of sup
port from the Catholic priests and peo
pie of America. His mission is entirel
non-political, and to him has been at
tributed the bringing about of a con
dltion whereby Orangemen and Ma
tionalists can clasp hands across tn
bloody Boyne river.