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Like Jokn the Baptist, he was in his Immediately on his return he associated
day a voice crying in the wilderness, but himself with, the League, and induced
as Jit Maynooth they will stand round the many others 1
join
cpen grave, and when the chanting of the of his colleagues in Maynooth
Canticle of the birth o that same Joba placed the Gaclic Journal at the servic
ident; J. K. will rise lke the sound of many waters, the new oration Lie SS theretore
Qonal Chaplain; De Yienebsy rand Father the Irish hea: properly to be regarded a re of the
Yorke. f that also in Euge founders. Dr. Hyde was el President
By a antimous resolutibu the National led the angel's prophesy, An of the League, and has sik Deen alway:
ecutive entrusted ne arrang efore in the re-elected. athe Euseby D, Cleaver
the funeral Calfionnia tone xe. Sat he ‘may turn the hearts of the children was lected vice-president, in recogniuon
utive Bos on Lot the Gatlic League! a Cal. © their fathers to prepare unto the Lord of his Scncrows help given to the teaching
ly, on a perfect people.” f Irish in the primary schools, on which
mit to “iaintee eon the nest of kins
nd the other necessary papers empower-
wrence Brannick to make ar-
rangements for the dispatch of the re-
mains.
sof money.
HIS LIFE A GREAT EXAMPLE. Ww vio el giler the
Engene O'Growney was born at Bally-
fal lon, a Co., Meath, in 1863, and
Convention of wa: old when ots
i 1 Sist
f the Clerical Bracch ot the
aelic League in San Francisco.
ism that is set down as a leading trait of
al was made to the Irish societies Of
ite Celtic character had no part in Father
pan Francisco and a few individuals, and O'Growney Both in Ireland and in
in two weeks over $2,000 lay to the credit he worked hard for the con-
of “he i sol tidation of the language movement on
he Gaelic League in Ireland wished the lines of th ic League i, to which
al until the students
Maynooth after the long
Recirdingly the a7ih of Sep:
e date of the In
to delay the fener
had returne:
vacation.
mtr
ig O'Growney
The remains wi leave New entered Maynooth ele her re he stud. Ma nooth, wrote a large
ied for six y« 1 his leisure his lessons ever
time in study history the Weekly Freeman, ed e Gaeli
and antiquities. he advantage Journal, aided in carryin, the outside
re h-speaking students, movement, and acted as advisor to every-
and ce: and he commenced systematically to col- one vanted to know anything about
ilie in state that night ‘in the Cathedral, ieet_a. voeu lary, a 0 perfect the Irish language. A Maynooth profes-
\ Marlborough reet. On Sunday, the himself in Irish conversation. sor me that Father O’Growney's
ice for the Dead will said, and after was ordained in 1889 and was ap- batch of fertets received by each Po near-
‘Solenn Mass there will be a public fu- pointed a curate in the parish ae Ballin- ly equal all those received the rest.
eral to the Broadstone Terminus. There. acarrigy, Co. Westm 1890 his: of the wat “To carry on his classes prope
‘he last stage of the long journey will Epputation asa Gack Scholae “had spread erly was forced to prepare special
gun and a few minutes will see Father abroa fe was o-editor and text- book ‘during this same period, and
LGrowney back in the old college he ates ‘of the Gaelic "Journal, which hi these th in scholarship and in
$0 well, and among the students been started by the Gaelic Union a few method, “excelled any previous work of
he, more than any man in Ireland, years Av‘personal friend who the, kind,
taught to be Irishmen knew. him. “intimately, tells the story of _ “His manner was as gentle Bs child’s.
In order to prepare the remains properly his life-work as follow He avoided contention. The greatest
for transportation and to. avoid all aan- “Thi he first “step that brought Father crank, the most hide-bound pedant could
ger ot _isappointment through railroad O'Growney’s name before any section of never ruffle his temper. Yet his character
cided to begin the disin- the public was his taking up, the editor- was and decided, and_his tenacity
ferment ay on and to give au sufficient in- ship of the Gaclic |. Previous to both of Purpose and of effort was. re-
terval between “the projected stops at San this during his vacation ns as a student ji markable. He had what many enthusiasts
Chicago and New York. Ac- Maynooth, he had paid sev isits fatally Kackethe saving grace of humor.
cordingly’ on Wednesday ‘morning. last, to the Aran Islands and other districts, to owing to the great tax whic
September 2, the grave in Calvary Ceme- learn nae as it is spoken, Other stu- his ie imposed on him, his. al ee
tery, Los Angeles, was opened in the pres- dents of Irish up to this time, who had away and he left Ireland in the of
ence of Mr. Law rannick. Father made up their knowledge mainly from recovering his health, or at least prclon
O'Growney was buried in what is known books, had been inclined to look down on_ ing his life in the mild climate of Arizona
as the Priests’ plot, and it was t people, ‘and. to suppose He was accorded a_splen eption ir
enerosity of Bishop Montgomery and the learned from them. New York by the nets and Philo-Celtic
Southern diocese tha s instinet told him that societi hi - life was un-
was indebted for tat charity. ge movement tedly prolonged, but the dread disease
was found perfect nor a resuscitated literature was at all of const nption 's hold, and-his
wed no, signs at possible unless the language of the people death was. only a Matter of tine. He
yestnents_in_ which -day was made the foundation of the never relaxed “bis lab wever, and
abors, hi
-w days before his death he was
Preparing. @ revised, edition of his ‘Sim-
ple Lessons in
work
in Aran he chose Tis Meadhoin (Mid-
je Psland) 96 his place of sty, Tis
and contains 300 inhabitants,
everyone of whom speaks Irish. It. had
previously been vigied by Professors Zim
mer and the well-known
poss and by
O'Mulrenin, who still ‘often
about by t the isla ders But it wa:
O'Growney who established the reputation
Inis Sfeadhoia as.an Trish summer
n his breast and the flesh-
ss fingers still held the beads and the
crucifix that t Ang ela had placed
there when
A pagicent “metallic casket, the best
les could supply, bad been
theresn he "re mi were
gently laid tor their long jou ey “in the
coffin was put a document in Irish, Latin
and pEuslish certifying to the identity o! A
body. ol
services in San Francisco will tal ool.” ‘The house where he usually stay-
lee on the oth and-r1ith, Thursday ee ed—Padin Donne chadha’s—wa:
Gay ck, The under“aking fully christened the, Irish Universi
O'Connor & ‘Co. hi otake they then parish petests Father ‘Michael
vith we
lie WW state atthe
ts Re Beach Hail. “There
‘reverend clergy. w wil Fecite the Office
the Dead, and the ry wl be said
Irish, for the he ke “OF |
y had a rare faculty
test
ze.
s, the power of reaching out ai
himself under the masses, and
hence. his. great succes addition to
all this he had a rare magnetism, which
lose who met him
sonal, bat ‘which was felt ‘even in his
ne rsch ie a Ty re
he fet that te hand of death
him, he ne: st his cheerful mess . “We
often sent a warming that the end might
id
“The first fresir stimulus. toa
ard of honor will keep watch over the ly as though he ing of some or-
iain. tof Att inary event, and he went on to “discuss
Friday, at 9:30, the funeral will ir own mo- the interest of what le: his
start™ for the Ca thedral, and it one fortunes heart in this world, our nati as
pected that all the Irish’ societies will be ge iad touched “the “a 2-an might ‘ho was absolutely heed
in The notice given is very short number of those - less of death or danger. ii efforts never
necessary, “Sut their ‘desire. fe honor the stackened, even when his life hung by a
ereat Irish priest and patriot will over- Irish history. In. thread. He was constantly writing to
vy difficulties. e number had Irish-American ADETS, and the theme was
se Rev. Archbishop Riordan has 000 to less than always the same, his object to stir
¢ Cathedral at the disposal are at all uP interest in tie struggle for th re N National
i he movement on behalf tongs nally the Highland ‘News,
the language had almost been lost sight of Ninvernes had an article or a
. ch it meant when from him. “A it seldom passed that
is some contribution of his did not appear
in the Gaelic Journal. Up to the last he
kept up a constant correspondence with
his comrades in arms on both sides of the
tla
“His death was an irreparable loss t
the Gaelic movement and to Ireland, be.
cause never had she a more devoted, pat-
ingly fortu-
v rhe, merch of the
wwney was marked out a:
cupant seems nothing less than
om: The Rev. MM an ‘Clifford, Goxnty pecial act of Providence: tic so. s life, however, was 8 Tesson
slain A.O.H., will be master “Meanwhile Father O'Growney had in lofty pate jotism: tir
ose. The sermon will be reached taken charge of the Gaelic Jour 1, This = ee and unfaltering hope,. which
P. C. Yorke, State President of periodical had been set afoot by the Gaetic Gono fatto be a model for al Irishmen,
inion in 1882, but tl Gack Union as and partiéularly fe those who we
an active body had gone. out of existence coswor
e
Spelic™ League
it is impossible for Father Yorke
z e
to Ireland at this ti as 30- in the eightien, and its scar ed more in 3 short life of thirty-six yea
w on chiefly by nerous than it is alloted to most of
subsidy by the Rev. “Maxwell it “Close, a achieve. May his soul rest
estant a n Father may his 'y be cherish:
eras grove. O'Growney came into charge in succession the Gaelic tongiie shall last.”
stteeaicage, tne funeral will be carried to Mr, John Fleming, since dead, the
fout much on the same. lines in Gaelic Journal made a fitful appearance at —_—
intervals of three months, more or less, Y
and had, bout 130" paying reader, a nd CRIPPLING IRISH EDUCATION.
another hundred or dowh did mot At cond annual Technical In-
By Father ‘O'Growney's efforts ‘the fournal struction " Gogere ess, held at Belfast on
was once more brought out as a monthly, Wednesday, Sept. 2, Sir James Henderson
and its circulation was run up to about pr esiding. “he ‘uestion of th
1,000. rant formed the lea adding topic o
it this time he commenced cussion. Mr. J._ A. lynn, Chairman
alway County Ce pI
sausiac ction a the nae in whieh the
request of Te
son
s pastor of St. Finn Barr's
Chi and editor of the Review of
Cath ie Pedagoy over again
i Satu day "Senter 18th, the party, on the xtreme simplicity of Father
consisting of Father Fielding, Mr. O'Don- O'Growney’s_ meth: It is Gaelic in
ova1 and Mr, Branick, will sail for Ire- homeeopathatic doses, You learn the fun-
fand, At Queenstown they will be joined damental principles he language, its
by De He ebry, Ww ronunciation, and a vocabulary of sev-
The ir pall- bearers “will then del fiver up etal hundred ordinary words without feel-
their sacted charge to the representatives ing that you have learned anythi hing. Per-
of the home body empowered to receive haps: not fewer than 30,000 individuals amount of public money placed at the dis-
it. hay filed by thes © Jessons into posal of Technical Instru
t this undertaking is now coming e acquaintance with the lan- |; wholly inadequate
a satisfactory nding through the gens guage of their ancestors. ‘The Aechishep discharge of the du ities entry
Irish of California is a of Dublim took the keenest interest in the and that the Chief See
pride. ‘The only conteibution preparation of the lessons, and it is be: elon the mate a “feputation,
outside was the 118 ree ieved that to his suggenions was due the motion, which was second
vived from the Gaelic League of Chicage auloption of the ord’ ice by Simmons (Dublin Trades Counc}, was
thi v. J. i The her O'Growney.
ind sponianiety . rae his publications, and his life, bore athe Equivalent Grant is a sum of £183,
ganizations and individuals was remark- the motto of the ‘Four Masters’—(For the 00 whicl en appropriated for edu-
able. shows what Id Father glory of God and the honor of Erin) cational pucposes in Ireland, but, in spite
O'Growney’s name has on the hearts of — “Father O'Growney’s scholarship ‘was of the protest of the national teachers,
he Je was a young man when recognized by the Royal Irish Academy, confiscated, for the purpose of swelling
died, an, he ich he was elected a member, and he th ” to be given to the andlor
iltian bhorred was also a member of the Society for the as a pons! to be given to the landlords
. tenants at an exhorbitant rice
in
3. Fal ney was absent, I
, in Scotland, but. he had been for
we
intry, ie Irish People have some time previously in constant com- . Krause, the ex-Public Prosecutor
shat Nasionatey means, ai ic ith a few others, who, like of Johannesburg, who was sentence
elves earnestly and serious! . ieved that the whole question the criminal Court in January of
er. languaxe, which ‘ational Tang ¢ required to be last year to t ears’ imprisonment for
is due to Father Oj cree to will, was released from Penton-
ville
THE GAELIC
land
- -men would ‘tall lost; her castles _rifted
by hh
AMERICAN.
WHY. WE ARE
SEPARATISTS
John Mitchel’s Clear and
of Ireland’s
Unanswerable Statement
Case
WRITTEN
HALF A CENTURY AGO
* Englana’s Ruthless Reign of Blood and Treachery
Exposed by a Master Hand
FROM STRONGBOW TO. CLARENDON
., The Only Possible End of Our Long Struggle is | prevent
. National Independence
John Mitchel’ cial Journal” is not
only a most ig book because of
the events it narrates. but it is full o:
sound views on the Irish national ques-
tio}
Be egun on board the British steamer
Shearwater, on which he was taken,
convicted “felon,” on May 17, a
transportation to’ an English penal colony,
and finished at Pier 3, North River, New
n he arrived
=
English
Mutehels ronning comments. on
events as the news reached him in letters
and occasional p:
day reader by
art of the book. And yet how
young men of the Irish race in this coun
try have rea
"although written half a_century ago,
e “Jail Journal”
ry a
raignme policy inore forcible
and convincing tan Irishman ‘has
written, it is the. Naiont ist’
ion of political faith to-da
whee John Mitchel gave it to’ the world
Bea jastification of th and action
Which sent him to a convict ¢
WHY IRELAND DEMANDS
NATIONHOOD.
This statement 0 of Mitchel’ 's reasons for
cing: and inveterate
rebel? ig as follows :—
England has ‘een left in Possession not
u
the wor orl’s ear al
le she will
er.
Success confers every right in this en-
lightened age; wherein, for the first time,
it has come £0 be ad «imitted ‘and ofa ga
romray prokets nyse
disheliever da. ‘that govt, the -colihened
age will only st
Ss
2 i pos
st hostile comment
upo way of telling our story is an
imams interruption; ay, is nothing
an Irish howl.
‘And if Treland be indeed conquered fin-
ally and unredeemably, it would be useless
to importune the busy public (which has
d heart enough, but really no time
to fttend i the grievances of mendicants),
contradiction to the tish
Story.—A touching and "sanctimonious tale
it is!—barbarian Celtic nature for ever
revolting in its senseles 85 ways
against the genius of Bri
generous efforts for the afoligration ot
that. portion ot the Kingdon for
rbulence, *
" suspicion, ieratiden De itish be
g forth its open hani
to relieve those same turbulent. but now
starving) wretches, wl feaven smote
he Jand with Famine—the anxieties, the
cares, the expenses, that an unthrift island
her more prosperous sister,
‘vould not, for all that, desert her in her
extremity, but would ‘ameliorate her to
the last. .
So it rans; and soit might, pass, un-
challenged for ev
g
2
e fas gh congue of Ireland was in-
final and crowning conquest.
But that Nation has been so often ‘dead
an d, and has so often been born
agai 1 al the same man sometimes
bot the rocking of her cradle,
and as chief-mourner following her hearse,
that there
death. Mountjoy gave i
h, “Nothing but carcasses and ashes,”
ough, “In half a century, the cat,
casses are armed men, lies flaming
fire and an Oliver Cromwell has to come
vert smite and to slay again. Ireland
was conquered by Cromivelly literally and
universally. The cause of ‘Ircland— m7
ital
|—wa:
Tegicide’s cannon her ve id
and the inheritance of them given
to Stansers her and bravest in
Bloody graves, o wasting and w
e Western Indies ;—at
she lay a. corps
sed; she is not
grave;—and again
°
Boyne. stream
0 the sea; at the “Break o}
time
mortal enemy is dead past
Another Boom and uneasy
of the Penal
if ment, never
single ‘treaty which i
not to impose pen:
Catholic worship, and having so disarmed
\
the Catholic forces and ende: 4 the war,—
that Govei
has heard ot the terrible Penal Lows; :
be not everybo mows what th
They took charge of every Catholic
fron his ‘Cradle, and ai
e—Catholic children
e Siucsted by Protestant teachers al home;
and it was high! 1 to sent them
2
ic (gxcluded fron’ every
profession, except the medical; ard from’
all oficial stations without exception,
forbidden to
trade. e comin
lies
nure
than thirty-one years; and also dsquali-
fied to inherit the lands of Frotesant rel-
ives
atholic could not, legally possess a
orse af ‘greater value than hve sounds
anu any true Prot restart meeting
ie with a horse 0
ator mount
y turning Petestan,
it for maintennce; 10
be determined by. ‘the Protestant / fourt of
Chan
holic’s eldest son, turnig Pro
estant, reduced his father to a teant for.
life the reversion to the convert
atholie priest could not ‘elebrate
mass, under severe penalties; jut any
priest who recanted was secured stipend
by law.
A FELL SYSTEM OF OPPRESgN.
the prootion of
BE
re was a code for
fro
m_ whence it mg appear,
ve not it been thenly per-
ecutors in the World, Some pepns may
© so far as to say that nCatholic
government ever yet conceived ints heart
50 fall ‘a system-of ‘oppression. dowever,
it may be circt reurmstanee in favtr of the
Protestant code (or may, ot
for. religion, _ altened, Protests only
religion, —
thought what became of Catholic Mls at
only they could get possession of Catholic
oods. Alas, we may_rema
nis c
rough)—but in Ireland i
had universally turned Protestants, it
would have defeated the whole scheme.
Edmund ¢ calls this Penal Code
“a machine of wise and deliberate co
trivance as well fitted for the oppression,
edation
Singular, that originated with the eo.
rious Revolution,” and was in full force
during the reign of William the Deliverer
and the three frst gracious Georges!
swered arpose, The
fo taunt them with
ignorance: and having ‘deprived them o'
and trade, magnani-
mi ously mi ‘mock ere poverty, and call them
tatterdemalions.
uring: ighteenth century the
Catholics disappear from history and pol-
itics. Such sallies of resistance as were
made in those years against the encroach=
ment of _ power, were made
Lucas, Molyneux),
Protestant Nedonatiey
nce of a. Protestant
when the Protes-
and argued for the
Corporation Act and Test
, which Drevented, them from holding
certain State offices, Dean Swift, the ish
patriot, wrote a sarcastic
from the Irish Catholics, pring “that
they might be relieved frot their penal
discredit on the retensions of Dissenters,
by way of reductio ad absurdum—We
will have the wery Catholics, said he,.com=
ight well expect, by the close of
that century, to find Ireland Sttoeethe ©
Anglicised.—the Catholics all’ dead
e ruling classes so coniplte-
clings as well
that England sould
0 fear the uprising of a
flowile Tesh ‘Nation, Tretand. was to
human appearance dead and buried his
ime.
2
FZ
ENGLAND'S
SATIABLE. GREED.
Jain
in truth’ so she might have
e Enfl
fo
pres
ergy”) but a little
ble. The ruling clyks
Protestants, were sfion ta
were to expecif to be
qual footing with} men“
wer de in Englind.” Expt
ts were made, td put a n end to several
of their tr4de, and to cramp an
trict others, Agficulture ‘too, which i
he main concern of every nation, was ac-
curately regulated ih Ireland, with a view
to British interest? One hundred years
ago, Ireland imported much corn from
provide wool
ep. farming. in jo
Tillage and
for the Yorkshire: weavers.
‘ds | So
ypounds Tecan, “one can
gattle-feeding were discouraged; there-
fore the Iris! sh were forbidden t6, export
lack-eattle to England, Sheep then be-
cal inore profitable stoc ky and the
f Barnstaple was opened to receive
their fleeces. after, whet
ihe had full postion OF the wool
n-manufacture, and that of Ireland was
tt
tite tly ruined, it becam
a general
of Agricultural i roi,
farm for alll so
At is their store-
iarm to
Those r laws no longer exist.
They have been repealed from time to
merely becruse En; nglan anted
then no longer. 1e work ‘ves “done;
the British were ia possessi To revive
Fanufactures i in Ireland, there must have
been protective duties imposed on import
ot manufactured articles. from Englan
but there was no free Irish Parliament 0
this, Besides, the time became so non
lightened that the Spirit of the Age
so-fortl
an, interferenc
wise, wil
easy; o noyver it, in the f
rivals now in. possessio:
peasan:
the. ne .
tured odities the; ire = must
come to fhem from abroad, and their raw
agricultural produce must go in payment
for tl tier,
draw from them the
‘uttemost farthing, that they may
in jhat other country ;—an
renpil also, as well as the price of mann-
factires, must be paid in raw produce,
the arrangement is as
Yu can want no more to account for the
stirved skeletons of Ireland—and the
enn forts which brighten “the
mes of England.” ® Nappy
very
Spend it
when
by the eighteenth century in
hardly believe thal the
wont in those
reat ws and miserable is the Tandscanes
ood Bishop Ber erkeley putting these
dismal queries i —"Whether there
be upon earth any Christian or civilized
people so beggarly wretched and destitute
the common [ri ther, never-
theless, there is any other people whose
nts may be more easily supplied from
home,” On writing thus to his friend
jor in, Dublin— istresses of the
e endless. The havoc of
mankind in the counties of Cork, Limere
ick and some adjacent places, have. bes
incredible. Thi
a
pt
swift, with accustomed te-
rocity roi sareasiy while the san ‘va indig=
lishing hi lode:
the fearfu! s dist
the children of th the
t Proposal” to relieve
S by“cooking and eating
oor.
et, before the end of
that same cen-
tury—such vitality is there in the Irish
race, and the Iris blin streets
ai
beheld a wonderful spectacle—the
a sister
t
on the muzzles of the Irish artillery was
engraved the legend “Free Trade
PLANS LAID FOR THE
ring those eighteen years of Irish in-
dependence then, olicy. w:
ifonest John ‘Butt atl non years
a yearly income which he felt
provernents at home, to
ritish services;—the metropolis of
Dublin beautified and, enriched, tothe
heavy loss of industrious Londoners ;—
Isish landlords keeping ‘their town-houses
rents at
F
Irish prosperity,” preparations were made
ig,gonaner Ireland again by the Act of
fully. (lor the ime). di that Teel
nd
manded.. The too credulous people were
taught that it would look suspicious if
they Kept up rament and in
evil hour the. Vi oned m
committed the defence of their island to
her. sister country,
aNest,t0 frighten the gentry of Ire-
and into an Union, an insurrection had
to be provoked. sxpedients by which
this was effected are known well enough ;
but the rebellion of 98, when it did. burst
out, had n d too strong for its
fomenters: oo it needed General Lake
with twenty ‘thousa nd disciplined men,
and complete ‘Datteries of ficld-artillery,
suppress it in the county of Wexford
alone’
The noble owners of noinination bor-
oughs were bribed, at £15,000 per bor-
ough, to self them to the English govern-
nent.
The Catholic Bishops were bribed, by
promises of emancipation (which the En.
glish delayed to fulfil for thirty years),
fo deliver over their flocks into the hands
of the Britis
The country was in abject terror; the
ress was crushed by prosecutions; ‘pub:
lic meetings were dispersed by dragoons.