The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-03-15
THE ENTELLlGENCER.
WHEELING, MARCH u, 1905.
Something In a Name.

Something In a Name.
The Scottish subjects OF her majesty,
Queen Victoria, are renewing, their agi-
tation of the right to the recognition they
are entitled to under the treaty of union
between England and Scotland, made In
g1I01, when It was agreed In the first arti-
Gle that the two Kingdoms OF England
and Scotland should from that date
and forever after, be united into me
= Kingdom by the name OF Great Britain"
This provision. the Scotsmen say, was
intended TO protect the national honor Of,
4 Scotland, and was regarded by both
sides as the Corner stone of the treaty"
"A petition recently addressed to the
queen, @ copy OF which is before lis,
calls attention to the we'll known his.ori-
cal facts leading up to the adoption of
"a he common name Of the two countries.
which was not to be England. and was
the result of deliberations on the part of
the representatives OF England for more
than a century and half, beginning in
lSi'. # also shows that the observance
OF this article of the treaty has no: been
. followed - the government for maay
years past.
The petition distinctly states that "the
international courtesy and fairness on
the part of the English people and pub
lie men has disappeared and the first
article OF the treaty has been treated by
them with Indifference" The Scotch peo-
pie protest that the general and continu-
ance OF the use OF the terms England"
and English" in an imperial sense IS
an aggression of the national honor OF
Scotland. They regard II as implying
that Scotland is merely a province OF
& England. and not one of the parties 10 a
union OF two kingdoms, each with It's
distinct national character, and united
under a treaty in which 1t was expressly
stipulated that the name England"
Should be dropped in the imperial sense
and that. the united kingdom should al
ways be known as Great Britain.
The petitioners 10 the queen protest
against the unjust and demonstrations
al attempt to Anglicise the united king
DOM" and to make England and Eng
lishmen the sole representatives OF Brit
ish power and OF the British name"
They look to her imperial majesty IL
preserve for them their constitutional
rights as Scotsmen, as defined in the
first article OF the treaty of union. The
petition is supplemented with a long list
OF extracts from speeches from the
throne, FROM treaties and other agree
ments with foreign powers, diplomatic
correspondence, orders from her majes-
~, speeches by public offers and British
statesmen, and even from Inscriptions
on monuments concentrating the
deeds OF British soldiers on the field OF
Z battle, where the Scotch took part, in
which the terms England" and Eng
4 lish, are invariably used exclusively. in
violation of the treaty STIMULATING that
the united kingdom should only be
known Imperially, or officially as Great
Britain" which is the real name Of the
Kingdom. and not England" the latter
merely being party to the union, as is
Scotland.
This is. matter of national pride with
the Scotsmen, and although II may be
regarded by outsiders as a mere techni-
cal point raised by them, national pride
IS something which never should be Of
Tended. The Scotch have been devotedly
attached TO the Kingdom and have al
ways been loyal subjects 10 the British
rulers. They have furnished to the Brit
ish armies some of their bravest and
most patriotic soldiers. and they simply
insist upon the recognition of the terms
Z OF the treaty, as loyal subjects claiming
tileIr national honor Is involved. Il may
s be regarded as q sentimental insistence,
and yet 1t Is the sort OF sentiment that
inspires patriotism, and in view Of the
! Indifference and assumption OF the Eng
llshmen they are doing no more than in
slstIng upon their treaty rights. for
which under the circumstances no one
can blame them.