The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-01

| last night at the Mercantile Club n mem
Der of the society remarked that it wa:
the first time that many of those present
had sat down to the Lords Supper
The tables We're decorated witlsfowers
of Scotland. The bagpipes played the mu
sic of Scotland. the speakers told the sto.
ries OF Scotland. vaunted the proves OF
her sons and praised the beauty of her
| daughters. The walters served Scotch
| hasgis and Scotch whisky. and the guests
attempted Scotch dialect
Alexander Robertson. the gigantic bag
| piper. played between courses. When the
Scotch hassis was served he played Cock
| of the North and marched three times
round the banquet hall. followed by TWEEN
| ty walters. each bearing before him an
| immense platter containing The hassis.
| Doctor ". a. McCandless was toast
master in the absence of d. Crawford,
| president of the society.
On the right of the POSTMASTER sat Lord
Lyvcden, and on his left Doctor Lunn of
London. Solos by W. NJ. Porteous
Charles Alfred Rhoades. Signor Campo
hello and James D. Grant We're rendered
between the toasts.
DOCTOR LUNN'S REMARKS
sponded to the toast America" said that
he had beer called upon to respond to a
great many toasts. but he had not been
asked as an Englishman without a drop
of Scotch blood in his veins to address a
St. Andrews Day banquet in America on
the subject of America
He said that he was glad to know that
King Edward had already manifested his
n 1,v limo ia no
st. Louis Exposition n great number of
the late Queens This mothers most valua
pie jewels. Furthermore. he was glad to
learn that the King was about TO send as
his personal representative the Prince and
Princess of Wales.
If all the word were enveloped by food,
America left could raise everything from
an iceberg 10 a banana, he said
1.-THE great hope of the world is in an
Anglo-Saxon alliance. l care not how
close that union may be- You may annex
long as we may be brought together
Smith p. Gait responded to the toast
Scotland In part, he said:
To me has been assigned the subject Scot
And do you intend 10 tarry Tomorrow and
tomorrow morrow night, and SO on; for week; while
whisky and more haddes We will take the
1t Is true scotland is a little peninsula. polk
ing her frost.bitten nose at John, o. Groat's
tempt to recite her history. with it's glorious
varied scenery Of crass and crests mirrored
in the lovely lakes that are nestled at their
Its lonely tarns and solitary glens. barren
corries and wooded s.raths,'' where desolate
of Ayr and Renfrew. where nature revels in
her bounteous haryests. or to sketch her poets
embalmed her fame. or 10 l.erely mention the
names Of the mighty host of her, sons of tower
tNhn ndn rrnHa t-Artr rlTrnfa
sion and every service at home and abroad-to
attempt any one OF these, subjects in the
to initiate the lrishinan who cut OF his pigs
tail and carried it to Dublin sample of
Ts sT 3; IT, oeropphns
fled. and to-day he stands by his God as he
his own. as his ancestor of a thousand years
ago stood with his back to the cliff and with
: hi and his own and conquered or died .'
God bless old Scotland. God bless her sons,
who love her SO much.
SCoTLAND'S HERITAGE.
William DEAFNESS responded to the toast |
''Our Heritage" He said in part:
One can fancy to himself the amazement of |
the unrestricted visitor to the Worlds Fair |
when he frs. arrives r in sight Of the Burns
associated.
the cottage is the sco.sinan's heritage, or how |
the heritage is symbolized by it.
as his native land is concerned is most gem
orally reckoned to be purely sentimental. He |
sreat men and IS pleased with the S' literature
which has sg%psed reading even when only
his qualification and may be called. so far. a
port. 1t means that Scotsmen acknowledse that |
The greatness OF which they are prone to boast
the s sweet rather han ahe IN
oiticn-is in picty rather than in parade Of
and that the man whom seai seth deiiShas 10
lonor,her IDEAL man Is the one who can plow
owly companions Of his iabors. can expires s his his
|enderest sentiments as he lamen,s the suffer
nss ann ne'piesshess o. creatures that his
would crush with the heel.
It means that the household is esteemed by
strength OF the, nation The cottage is the
rome of p pure, sincere and ardent afTeet1n.
4 wholesome. vigorous love songs. and to me
unchanged with that domestic affection ~ that
Increases and intensiiies what It describes ard
s heritage that few Kings have been able to
,oast
The cottage symbolizes the heritage which
Consciousness Of the equality Of ali men before
he law. for the cottages of Scotland made con-
hey recognized in the usterance 6f Burns W that
which their fathers had fought for hundred
|
The cottage humbled the palace and the castle
nto rims when the sacred rights of man were !
INVADED.
The cottage is Our heritage. as It symbolizes |
,ur possession OF wealth OF poetic sentiment |
which found voice in the laments Of Ossian; in |
he wild sagas of the Morse invaders and set
lers: in the Druid nature worship which vet |
rave its color to Scottish character: in the |
Hebrew. God-inspired strains which emanat ell
rom Iona and It's sanity hand these sinking |
nto the strata of Scottish life and character,
merged peilucid and perennial spring at
he cottage in Ayr.
The cottage is our heritage to maintain and
o apply. The Scotsman has nothing to unlearn
when he comes here. He has teen taught for
90 years that in the most sacred of government
oElpacts there is absolute parity of power. and
he cottage. 50 late as 1913. stood for absolute
lefiance of the civil power when rights. that
many in our land to-day would pronounce in
ignificant. were assailed.
Our heritage in the cottage commits ris to
License OF these sacred rights and is a mute
witness of the land which covenanted itself
With God to maintain untouched his sovereign-
y alone and mans individual responsibility.
FOR OTHER SOCIETIES.
On behalf of sister societies William
Marion Reedy responded for Knights of
It. Patrick. of which he is president. and
!. N. Judscn' on the part of the New
England Society.
Mr. Ready showed MANY Dointc nf com. |