fane and sacred
histories agreeing. One will beautifully explain the other; nor can
anybody understand Irish history unless they get the key from sacred
history. To take this key later writers have been unwilling, and,
therefore, they have been unable to solve the problem embodied in this
race and nation. No people on the face of the earth have been less
understood and more misrepresented. The real allophyllians of
Ireland--that is, the first native settlers--are unknown. The present
inhabitants are not autochthonal, no more than we are the first settlers
of this country. On one point all old historians are agreed--namely,
that Ireland has been settled by two distinct colonies of people; and
from these two colonies came the present Irish race. These two colonies
were distinct in features, manners, customs, enterprise, and religion,
and after all these centuries have passed away, these differences are
discernable in some degree, especially so in enterprise and religion.
And though, of course, in these latter years, they have become
considerably mixed, yet an appeal on either of these points will mark out
the Danite from the Phoenician. From the loud boasting of the Phoenician
Irishman in Ireland, when speaking of America, you would think that he
would pluck out his eyes and give them for a gift if need be. Well, a
few years ago, Chicago was bitterly scourged with a fire. The need and
distress thus caused appealed to the nations of the earth for help. The
response was grand and glorious. Even hateful old John Bull did well.
But what did Ireland do? Take two of her leading cities as an example;
one in the North, the other in the South. Belfast in the North, of the
Tribe of Dan; Dublin in the South, of the Phoenicians. Belfast sent
36,000 dols.; Dublin, 2,000 dols. Why this difference? We answer,
Forsooth, the people of Belfast are Danites; they of Dublin are
Phoenicians.

The Phoenicians, or Philistines, were the ancient Canaanites. They took
early possession of Ireland. On this point the old as well as the new
historians generally agree. But there was another early settlement in
the North of Ireland whom the historians called _Tuath de Danan_, which
simply means the folks of the Tribe of Dan. They introduced into the
Irish language hundreds of Hebrew words, with many customs and legends of
the Hebrews. They were very distinct in their enterprise and religion
from the other settlers. About the year 5