The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-26
THE SCOTS REUNION.
The Speech of Chief s. M. Nc
DOwall.
ATRIBUTETO THE LAND OF BURNS,
s,Salt Lake Scots Do Honor to tine Birthday OF
the Great Caledonian Poet-An En-
ioyable Time.

Salt Lake Scots did honor to the great
poet on Friday, and had most sociasle
and enjoyable time. Following is the full
text of Chief McDowal's speech:
Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends and Eel
low Countrymen AS chief of the Salt
Lake city Caledonia club, it is nv duty as
well as pleasure, on behalf of our club. to
extend to you, one and all, hearty vel
come and invitation to join with US IN our
effort to recognize. and celebrate in Salt
Lake citgin an appropriate Scotch manner
the anniversary of the birth of the gifted
Scottish poet, Robert Burns. Having re
ived q very late notice from the commit
tse ia cslsla re of the arraI gements, that
would he expected to deliver something in
the WAY OF an essay or address to you TO
night On subject selected for me, viz
The Land of Burns,'' / have revised
rather hastily, an address on the same sub
ject, delivered by me in Leadville, Colo.
January %, 1881, and trust it may be as
pleasing andinstructive to you as if wholly
new, and specially prepared for the occa-
sion. The Land of Burns'' strictly
speaking, is the northern part Of Great
Britain. known as Caledonia and Scotland
1t covers an area of but 1865 square miles.
large portion of which is composed of
rough. bleak, inhospitable mountains and
barren moors, unfit for cultivation, and
g
raising Of sheep, and few hardy CATTLE
and as matter Of course but thinly popu-
lated. The greater portion of the male in
habitants of that part of the country, which
is familiarity known as
1.-THE HIGHLANDS
Re shepherds and soldiers The southern
part is known as 1.-THE Lowlands," and
being very fertile and watered by many
streams and rivers, is thickly populated
and contains large number CT populous
cities and towns largely devoted to manu-
features and commerce. Glasgow, the
largest city, with its neighboring towns on
the river Clyde, being very largely inter |
.ested in ship building and the manufactures !
and Industries connected Herewith and |
have a worldwide reputation for the large |
number and excellent quality of iron and |
steel steamships built and launched from
their wards and Jocks for MANY wears past.
The population of Scotland is about 4.OOQ.
600, being nearly twenty times that of |
Utah, and its area is little more than one
third THAT of this territory at the present
time. In respect to bleak. rugged and barren
mountains, portions of Utah and Scotland
are Eery similar. Scotland, however, ex-
tends much further north, and her noun
tains, although greatly and justly cele-
brated for their bold and rugged beauty,
are not near as high as those OF this terri
tory. La fact, the highest peak
''BEN NEvIs,'
noted in history and song, rises but about
4, 4oo feet above tue level of the ocean. and
the place in which we are now assembled,
although far below the hight of our neigh
boring peaks, is about 1900 feet altitude,
or very neary the same high as the top of
Ben Nevis. History proclaims the fact
that the bleak, mountainous, northern
countries have ever produced hardy and ]
hberty-loving races of people, and the 4
brave and hardy sons of the Gland of 4
BURNS" are living allegories of the truth !
On history in that'respect. Like the brave Y
? 4Vlss, the Scots have ever stood up and L
g8avely fought, periling their lives and {
Yer property for their liberty and the !