The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-12-21

not but proceeds AT once TO most pun2ent con
cll>ions. BY tho historians he has pecn called
'hot headed" and h, had need to he red'lot IN
order TO perform all the disCouraging and dis
agreeable tasks allotted to linn hy Providence in
those three hundred years. | may acknowledge
what is und,niable, that the persistent junction
OF the Srotchrish race from iirst 10 last has
been 10 make itself obnoxious and 'lisagrecailr.
We have always been CroNdng somebody out. we
have always been tleading somebody's toes.
without plusng To apologize on express
gratitude when somebody has invariably moved
out ot the way.
When you connect our fine lineage with this
faculty ior being obnoxious and Tor being no
doubt at times well cursed, il would amo, seem
as ii the SCo,ch.rismnan mus, have been rc.crrcd
to in the expression really spoken about another
animal. ''Srcd by George Wilkes, hui damned
by everybody" We stepped on Catholic toes in
Ulster, We stepped on British toes III Colonial
America. we stepped on Aboriginal toes along
the early frontier, stepped on Rebel toes in
Wesl Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, and lat
telly some Of Us were stepping, not too hard, III
Pcnnnsy sylvana. on the toes of the Boss. is IL not
a frightiu record of mischief. msbehayor tnd
bad manners, only to be menl nlioncd in riic pr
va'y of this apartment, by comparison with
which, even the terrible dynamiter OF your bon!c.
wards, or Carrie Nation, seems quite scnteel?
Nevertheless, I am quite sincere in the hope
that Providence may give TO the world fol its
advantage IN the twentieth. ~ in the sevcn'
tcenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a
plentiful supply OF jus. such rude men, nor to
tread on the toes | have named, hut On other
toes in every community which need reminder
rom the pressure ui big honest leet that they
stand where they have no business TO sand, AMI
must move Oui al the NAY. We surely have out
grown the notion, preached 10y m ignorant nin!a'
biiy, that the worlG is big enough for every
body and there j. room for all, There is MOI
s,1l. St,,,t tYl F,s
Turk, no room Tor rlgal, no room Tor China
man, Ia room Tor anarchist, either oi III" ypc
that kills presidents ri the more pestitcl0us
iype that declares boycott, 0r coIrlpt> politics.
We Scolch'I>h have always prac'ictd ana
preached he gospel Tia, tho world Is tno small,
and that somebody must be clowled olt
Every community cont ms certain proportion
oi people who ought to he '.ow'lcd out, an!
certain other propoir on quite frequently >co'cl'
Irish or New lnglIH dC'rrnl, Ia do IN" crowd
ing. The latter can't AFFORD I" Nc polite but
must b. pclsistcnly obnoxious ari diSdgtceahie
anti. their junction is finished. believe some
What IN A gospel Of affection which extends the
good by converting the bad but believe more
IN = gospel .! iutagonsm which extends the
good by eNpelling thu bad, True soodnas- Is nj
ways militant, always hsllnS, OF repF I" h&h''
This modem ciyic waifair calls tor greater r"ui
age, greater intelligence, greater rh'"'I"'''
greater possession o every mental diu nAh'il H'''
ulty than military warfare ever d'lnlhd'H; I''a
ON cycr, rlyc ha:tlcHcld, whether in Ne" No.E.
ur philadelphia OF scranton, we lnu scotch
lrs amen and New EngllriG!cn IN the Iol'r"hl.
| honor scranton, hCcIu>, 4 cIilZSh OF us i'phl
rank ILLS the jury wheel, aud hceais' clergy
man uf hig standing fears not 10 dc'"uhre We
monster wrong oi the day, and heeauS' Others oi
its best pecpie have been bold 70 pun down
nnicipa. wickrdne,, IN 'iSh places.
And / see iu thtse lhingo sure sympcm, C..
blood in your veins, uudeteIiorated IN it, how oi