Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-06-17

Occasion" series. New ana enlarS
ed. Il. b. Treat & Co, New York
$500 net.
The Bulletin Bookmau Is always
pleased to recommend book OF this
sort. In his day there were more OF
them. They came as textbooks and up
on them Young America could feed his
patriotic zeal; but since 1t has become
the fashion to condemn the old.fashion'
cd observance of the Fourth, and to
profess more or less indifference to the
Revolutionary heroes and the Flag,
the old standbys have disappeared, and
few new ones are with us to take
their places, But this book Is not
book of juvenile perorations by any
means. 1t contains scholarly lectures
delivered by well known men to large
and intelligent audiences.
"portraying pen pictures Of the Vir.
rinia colonists, the Pilgrims, the Hol-
landers, the Puritans, the Quakers, the
Scotch, and the Huguenots, with chap.
ters on the influence of the discoveries
of christopher Columbus, and the work
of George Washington as factor In
American history
The. persons and the principles which
led to the power and influence OF the
American nation are considered, and
an appeal is made to the citizen OF this
great country for the purest and best
citizenship he is capable Of.
There is enough eulogy to stir the
blood, but not enough to make the book
useless bit of brag.
mo people who fail to take pride
| in the deeds of their ancestors Will
ever do anything In which their pos
terity can take pride" Is as true today
as when the great historian said 1t, and
| think that Americans are particular
| ly fortunate in having an ancestry as
noble and worthy as any since Adam
damaged his.
The b. d. is pleased to come across
a chapter entitled: THE Scotch" be.
cause IL says Just what he has wanted
to say a great many times, and what
he would have said had he not been
too lazy to put 1t down. The Scotch
| in America are not given to boastlng,
at least in a public way. They think
we'll Of themselves, no doubt, as self
respecting men should; but they don't
claim in bursts of lurid oratory that
they fought all our battles for us, or
that all the Presidents from George
Washington down (up), had Scotch
blood in his veins.
In speaking of the "Scotch.lrish'
the author says: -,
| THE name Is a misnomer. 1t would
| lead us to believe that the Scotch OF
the colony OF Ulster intermarried with
the Irish, and that this people, there
fore, is a people of mixed blood. But
this Is not the case. The name Scotch.
Irish, which had its origin in purely
l geographical reasons, Is ethnologically
| Incorrect. The Ulster to this day are
Scotch through and through and out
and out There Is no intermarriage;
there Is no union of the Scotch and the
Irish races. The name Scotch-lrish IL
not used in the Emerald isle, and In the
interest of historical correctness l ar
que that II should not be used any
where. In the Tmerald isle, by Irish
and Scotch alike, these people are
called Ulstermen, and that Is theii
name
So the pure Scotch from Ulster who
left home because of bad treatmen
there, who came to Boston and Worces
ter, who went to Maine and Vermont
the 10000 of them that settled aloni
the Charles River-do you suppos'
they had no influence and voice In shap
ing the country they acknowledged a
sieir own! II was Scotchman witt
said: "Breathes there a man with sou
so dead'-and the rest. DO you sup
pose these Scotchmen didn't fight TO
liberty too: these quiet, steady-goins
self.mastered Scotch. Yes sir, they did
They held to progressive Protestant
ism, as well, schools, and a Sabbatl
which Boston hasn't got over yet.
None Of your hoodlums, hilariou
Sundays, and frenzied Wakes.
Henry Knox, one Of these Scotch, be
came the first Secretary Of War.
, Washington knew the value of
live Scotchmen.
the Green ountain Boys In who's
y trails the b. b. as a boy has often wal
, dered, were Scotch.
:, This hardy race went South int
Pennsylvania; they filed Kentuck
and Tennessee and Alabama. "The
took possession of the Missippi Va
J. ley" And they became SO strong 1
q our own Empire State Of New Yor
that even our first governor, Governo
q IlDitOn, was u sClOH VI tHdt race
:, Take peep into your history or Ell
cyclopaedia and read over the name
of great Americans, Those that are NJ
English will be Scotch. A few al
Dutch and French. But while tn
good, solid traits have persisted. Il
Scotch colonists were Americans fir
IT OF all and did not seek to perpetual
" red hair, dialects and SO on.
0. They have not sought to usurp all Il
ID police Offices or run the Senate. As
@. have said before, numerically and {
masse, the English were the founde
! Of our Republic; but morally and
:. many essential respects, the Scott
;" leavened the country.
Their physical characteristics a
perhaps less apparent In American
, than those of less important races,
trace of dark blood goes farther al
shows more than long straight nos
But the Scotch have the traits al
particularly the habits of life viii
count IN communities, and what tn
~. ,ya,a aud what thoy did mara IN