The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-26

one has said, his was Rot a case OF
q DAD man succeeding. bu. of a good
: man failing" The American poet
Whittier. Who was deeply religious
man. bears this testimony to Burns as
: teacher:
With clearer eyes 7 saw the worth
Of life among the lowlv.
The Bible at the Cortar's hearth
Has made my own more holy
He paraphrased some of the Psalms
and wrote several prayers. and his
Epistle TO Young FRIEND might
pass as metrical version OF a chapter
from Solomon.
INFINITE VARIETY OF GENIUS.
There is little time to consider the
infinite variety of his genius along
other lines: his pawky songs like
hlstie and I'll come 10 ye my lad. .
Duncan Gray" whistle over the
lave oct, The deirs ava wi the ex-
clSeman, Sic a wife as Willie had
ana that peculiarly Scottish gem The
weary pund o tow; or his social and
domestic poems. like THE Cottar's Sat
urday Night Halloween. - The Tva
Dogs and the Address to a Haggfs.''
His Tam o Shanter'' is simply the
bubbling over of the spirit of fun which
he possessed in so great a measure
and his wife relates that. on the dav
he composed it, while he was recitinc.
l. to himself he was so overcome with
the vision of Tam's befuddled adven-
ture that she found him rolling on the
grass in fit of uncomfortable laugh
ter.
And yet how solemn and mournfui he
could become! His MAN was made
to mourn is a rival to Gray's "EIesy"
and surpasses it for sheer melancholy
while some of his dirges and tragic
fragments exhibit the very serious side
of his nature. He wrote Masonic
songs for his brethren of the craft, he
wrote political skits, he wrote epitaphs
for his friends and epitaphs for his
enemies land they weren't at all the
same kind of epitaphs), he wrote the
finest drinking song we have, Willie
brewed a peck o. maui" he gave the
world a parting song in AUD Lang
Syne,' and he wrote the grandest war
hymn and National Anthem that has
ever been penned. He whose blood
does not run faster, whose heart does
not beat quicker, whose head is not
held little higher and who does not
have to keep swallowing lump in his
throat when Scots wha hae" is sung
is no Scotsman is not patriotic and is |
not man to be trusted
As I have already said it is impos- !
sible, in the course of a speech like
this, to do more than merely indicate
some of the traits in our beloved Bard
which have endeared him to every true
Scot and which will keep his memory
green While our grey Scottish hills en-
dure. But. indeed, there is little pros
pect of Burns being forgotten. Every
year, hundreds, aye thousands of
speeches on Burns are delivered in all
parts of the world on this memorable
twenty-f1fth of January which, nearly
a hundred and fifty years ago, ushered
into life this King of Scottish song on
whose empire of hearts the sun has
never set. And it never will set so
long as Scotsmen wander from their
shores carrying with
them, as they always do, that love of
country, that proud remembrance of
their nations noble history-and I
know of none that has a nobIer-that
kindly feeling to all brother Scots, that
hatred of oppression and wrong, and
that glorious love of liberty and indie
pendence which is our national birth
right.
OTHER SPEAKERS.
The remarks of Frank F. Thompson,
q. S. District Attorney r. w. Breck-
ons and P E. Tosh were greeted with
lnstinted applause. The concert
broke up at a late hour, all present
voting it the most successful celebra-
ion ever held. The program was as
'ollows: II
FIRST PART.
hartman remarks. 7
...........Ch Chief JAS. l.. Cockburn
)verture-'' Bonnie Scotland '...... 6
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Orchestra
song There Was a Lad Was Born I
in Kyle. .....D w. Anderson
Toast-The Immortal Memory of
Robert Burns. Robert Anderson
1--WE II a be prood o. Robin
song Macgregor s Gathering .... 7
..........l .........H Hugo HerZer
'oast-The President of the United /
States. Attorney Gen. f. c. Peters
recitation ...A........ Bruce Hartman
song Sans TOT L S. Dillingham; Il
'oast-The King and Queen
God Save the King
,ong-'' Scotland -. James F. Fenwick Il
SECOND PART.
'oast-The Land We Live In.......
..........Fr Frank f. Thompson /
= Then here s han my trusty frien'.' n
'lari0net solo. .........J. II. Stockton q
ong-'' The Star % Robbie Burns p
.................C Chris jenkins
'oast-The Land O Burns. l.. P. f. Tosh
80 Scotia! my dear, my native soil!'
ong-'' Burns and Scotland YETI.
.................. Edward Munro
Prince of Good Fellows"
Orchestra
u. S. District Atty. r. w. Breckons
ong.. Captain Scott