New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-01
CARNEGIE LAUDS SCOTS.
ST. ANDREW,S DINNER.
President WiLs0n Pleads for Free
dom of Opinion.

OF opinion more strongly individual fibre in our
American men. Woodrow Wilson. president Of
princeton University. electrified his hearers at the
st. Andrews Society dinner last night. There was
entirely too much Difference given to the voice Of
the majority here. he said. and this great brazen
clamor drowned the weaker individual note of pro-
test This in theory was wrong. in view of this
country's origin and history. Then he touched on
the Panama Canal remarking the disturbance
which individual Interpretation of international
politics had caused.
It the 147th annual dinner of the ST. An
drew's Society and the skirling Of pipes and the
steam Of haggis marked the occasion. The atmos-
phere was redolent of the land of the heather
there were Scottish songs and stories, there were
Scottish banners draped the walls with the cross
of st. Andrew beside them, there was the rams
head snuffbox in due prominence. there were
few kits and paids. with their proper accompani-
ment of dirk and philabeg, and-uost Of all-there
nestled in the buttonhole of each guest sprig OF
the right Scottish heather.
The large dining hall at Delmonico's was crowd
ed. There were some five hundred guests, most OF
them Scottish of Scottish descent William
Butler Duncan. who recently celebrated his golden
wedding. presided. At his table sat the Rev Dr.
David G. Wylie, chaplain of ST. Andrews Society;
Ralph NJ Stuart WOrtley. for the British Schools
and Universities Club; Robert c. Ogden, for the
Pennsylvania Society; General Thomas L. James.
for the ST. David's Society; Robert H Turtle, for
the St Georges Society; the Rev. DR.. George Alex
ander, chaplain of St Andrews Society; JOB r.
Hedges Morris X Jesup, fer the Chamber of Com
merce; President Woodrow Wilson of Princeton
University; Sir Percy Sanderson. British Consul
General at New-York; Bishop Potter Andrew Car
negie. Thomas Barclay, the Rev. DR.. George e.
Lorimer; Edmund c. Stedman. for the New-Ens-
land Society George T. Wilson for the Pilgrims
Society; Stuyvesant Fish. for the St. Nicholas So
ciety; Frederic J. De Peyster for the Colonial Wars
Society; Theodore NJ Banta. for the Holland So
ciety; DR.. George D. Stewart. for the Canadian
Society and George Austin Morrison 1r.. secretary
Of St. Andrews Society.
After the haggis had been brought in BY a pro-
cession of walters, headed by the piper. James
Macdonald, playing Justify. and the guests had
enjoyed their Scottish (and American) dinner. the
president spoke
Then Mr. Duncan. after giving toasts 20 the
President and the King, which were drunk stand
ing. called for the Laird o Pitrencrief that Star
spangled scotchman, Andrew Carnegie who was
allowed 10 speak after much enthusiastic applause
He said in part:
In hundreds of cities the toast is being given
TO which your president asks me to respond. For
hundreds Of years Thousand voices have declaimed
on on, St AhdreW s night thr9ugnout the world upon
TINS lnexhausttbe theme If all OF eulogy that mas
bTary big enough to contain the huge tones would
be large order. and yet the half has not been
country? Her sons feel and know it be deserved.
STILL Let US try to explain. What makes the Scot
so Scotch? First; there is climate probably the
man; then the physical characteristics of the land;
evolves the Celtic magic that ire5 the blood ana
gives to men men the do-or-dIe resolve: the extreme
contributed by compelling the strenuous life the
struggle against adverse circumstances which
strengthens the slnews, physical and intellectual
dom during the centuries Of struggle for national
IIndePendence and for civil and religious liberty
suffering, herocally endured Through all Of these
stimulating but fiery tests the Scot has passed in
Gentlemen. tonight chain of St Andrews
societies encrcing the globe are in touch with u.s.
our countrymen and their friends in torrid in
in the Highlands their thoughts upon the Heather
hills, their feet upon their native heath; the whin
the broom. bog myrtle and hawthorn seeming the
air, al! net to drink health to Scotland yet
that the beat of England's wardrurn encircIes the
globe Scotland sends round the ball a noble
and goodwill on earth, the music OF humanity
which, let US hope. IS soon 10 supersede the war
ike drum, and realize the prayer OF the greatest
Of all songsters,
That man tq man the world o,sz
D.. Wilson RESPONDED to the toast THE Land
We Live in" Not" he said, that we love Scot
land less but that We love America more Dr..
Wilson took care to explain that while his
mother Of the purest Scottish strain, his
father came from the North of ireland, relieving
him of too tender conscience. He added:
America is land Of confusing variety. We meet
a new klEd OF american every day so that the
american type There is a sort Of unlicensed vigor
We don't always ind it here in the East We ars
highly conventional here: we wear the same kind
the same polite phrases but we are constantly IN
easy because there is place called Kansas We
hardly know what 10 do II some Of those breezy
Westerners come in and upset our schemes OF
We don't know what will happen because Of the
surgfnS independence of thought in these United
ing TO our constitution but what we'H be when
we have departed from the plan of creation no one
permission 70 infiCt our ideas anybody else
You see, the uneasiness it has caused some people
because some other people have recently put their
gionaI law If we were not too big 70 be Guas
toned on that opinion we might be put through
cur PAGES. 1t may. though, even come to a repe-
asperated the little fellow who finally said TO him:
If YOU don't stop your nonsense III get a step
II is wonderful how easily we wear our theories
in this country. In theory. this nation is demo-
cratic, but we don't always live up 10 theory 1t
is amazing TO what pitch the following out of a
theory will lead. Dr. Hodge, Of Princeton, for in
never be truly democratic until it had a negro
The voice OF the majority and the accomplished
fact are accepted in this country. They re-
compshed fact is that which is right is applied 10
our history. which is not 10 be reviewed and re-
naffrfo+iC we nut a pressure on men which makes
il difficult TO express personal opinion. We
should cultivate q hardness of Individual fibre
which would enable US TO stand against the crowd
majority there is in following their opinions
Telling how the Celt had been driven from coun-
try to country by the Saxon, until this spirit was
theoretically planted il his music and literature the
Rev DR.. George c. Lorimer spoke on The IN
taught Poets of Scotland
Job E Hedges, in discussing the Scotch-Ameri-
can citizen. said that he did not be ortho-
dox in that company. for he had been born TO
wealth-only his grandsire. whose character he re-
spected, but whose Judgment ne desplsed hap
pened TO make serious error in calculation. Mr..
Hedges, speaking of poetry and commercial sense.
looking meaningly at Mr. Carnegie the while, de-
clared:
only guessed bonds instead OF common stock. I'd
have been Scotch all the time I'd done that