The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-26

fore 7 sit down, I ought not TO omit TO
notice. and that is the providential es-
cape Of Her Majesty from the FIRE
which took place recently at Sandring-
ham. which might have ended more
disastrously than il did. Fortuna tely
no serious harm came TO the good
Queen or to others in her suite, and for
this we can tender our hearty felicita-
tions.
Long life and happiness TO their
Majesties, and a thousand warm alohas
for good and brave old Scotland.
til OR [. 5.
"The Land We Live In coupled with
the name Of wallace r. Harrington.
was given all the honors-
Mr.. Harrington said in part:
1T is a foregone conclusion that the
land We live in must be among the best
on earth, or else there would not be so
many Scotchmen here tonight. You
never saw a Scotchman that didn't
know a good thing. And he goes after
ii and gets there all the same whatever
may be IN the way.
Il do not know whether it was ex-
pected Of me to confine myself TO Ha-
vail as the land We live in, or 70 travel
over the whole country. cannot
think it was intended all for. Hawaii.
Hawaii is bounded on the north by
Hamakua, and they are all Scotehmen
there; and on the west by Bishop
Bank and the Alexander Young Hotel,
where you viii find more Scotchmen.
From the hell of Kilauea to the Homo
lulu Iron Works. there are scotchmen
everywhere.
"But you cannot expect to own the
whole country in the same proportion
We have had a line Of presidents. but
they were largely Scotch-Irish
GaughTer.)
The speaker here told political sto-
~ of a political meeting in Hamakua.
where Donald and Hector and Dougald
this and that were nominated for po-
sitions. At last some one proposed
John Smith and was asked in surprise
why,
Because the Yankees ought to have
nation.
Mr.. Harrington went on to speak of
the greater land we live in as a pretty
broad pace. Many Seotchmen came
to it, who did not divide their loyalty.
they found this country just a little
better. Once we licked the greatest
nation on earth and they thanked US
for it. In our industries we have the
greatest corporations on earth, and
when they busted" they made the
greatest explosion on earth-and then
the Scotchman, Carnegie, comes in and
scoops the whole till. Oaughter.) We
have different sorts of men, both the
greatest and the meanest. We own
George Washington also Russell Sage
We have the prettiest women, and some
of them are Scotch. We have the man
on our books who never told a lie, and
he thought we were responsible for the
expression that all lawyers are liars
On the north We have Canada, shin
ing with reflected light. There are
vast countries on the south, where the
pIow had broken but little soil. NO,
sir answering a remark. but the
of revolution" In boast
ing OF our great industrial advance
ment, we must acknowledge the good
fortune Of having sprung from a noble
race applause, and Now you're
talking.") It was true some Of the
people that came were of revolutionary
tendencies. No, he did not include the
Irish, for he was Irish himself. Nor
the Germans, for, though it was said
not many of them took part in our late
war. it was not said for publication.
(Laughter.)
We have a navy, as well as the Brit
ish of which they had been singing,
and some of them thought it so strong
that they were holding il back. Some
indeed thought il strong enough to lick
the earth. and If We tried We would
have a whole lot Of Scotchmen behind
u.s. CA cough amidst laughter.) Let
them cough. They are thinking
Of Tan1many Hall and Home
Rule Legislature, but those are
only small parts of the American ma
ton. It is the industries of our coun-
try and the men behind them which
count.
The speaker thought he could not
better conclude than with this quota
ton:
Man through all ages of revolving time,
Exchanging man, in every varying
cline,
Deems his own land Of every land the
pride,
Beloved by Heaven Ger all the world
beside;
His home the spot of earth supremacy
blest,
A dearer. sweeter spot than all the rest.
THREE BARS.
The Bar" with which w. L. Stan
Iey's name was connected, aroused ap-
plause that was evidently for the re-
sponder.
Judge Stanley began with an apt
quotation from Burns. It was with
shame he confessed he was not a mem
Der OF the Scottish Thistle Club, for
he was of partly Scotch parentage. He
knew he was taken for an Irishman,
pure and simple. Admitting the first
part. he hoped he was also pure and
simple" OF the three bars he knew
about-that behind which liquids were
dispensed, the bar of public opinion
and the bar to which he belonged-he
presumed it was the aforementioned
that had just been toasted Burns had
no higher opinion of that learned pro-
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