The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-12-10


heroeS. And who has not felt his
blood run faster as he read of Luck
now, with its little band Of BrtonS
and their women and children, hud-
died together. expecting every mom-
ent to be overwhelmed by the hordes
of mutinonS SepoyS. when
cup spake a Scottish maiden,
With her ear upon the ground:
sDinaa ye hear it?-dinna ye hear 1t?
: The pipes of Havelock sound ~"
Then. with what joy they listened,
while
"Louder. nearer. fierce as vengeance,
Sharp and thrill as swords at strife.
Came the wild MacGregor's clan-call,
Singing all the air to life.'
In our own land, the Scotch and
the Scotch-Irish have shown them
selves worthy descendants Of their
valiant sires. From the border wars
with the French and Indians IN Col
onial days. to the War with Spain,
and the pacifcstion of the Phillip
pines. the Scotch and the Scotch
Irish have ever borne an honorable
part. It was a Scotchman, mem
ber of your own society. General Will
liam Moultrie. and his handful of
heroic men. who. by the defeat Of the
British fleet under Sir Peter Par
ker. irrevocably ccmnitted the Caro-
linas to the cause Of independence,
and it is we'll known in Charlotte that
large proportion of the signers OF
the Mecklenburg Declaration of In
dependenc5 were Of Scotch and
Seotch-Irish descent. It was Scot
who carried TIE victorious arms Of
our country to the Capital Of Mexico,
and to tell of even the most dlstin-
guished of the Scotch and Scotch
Irish who participated on both sides
in our Civil War would make any ad-
dress far too long for an occasion
such as this.
In their native land the Scots
have carried the industries based on
their natural resources to the highest
degree of perfection. Scotch woolen
goods are unsurpassed by those Of
any other country, and the Scotch
and the Scotch-Irish in Ireland have
set the standard of the world in the
manufacture of linens. The iron and
steel industry of Scotland. founded
at an early date. has been highly de-
veloped. Ship building has thrived
in Scotland since the time Of The
Bruce, and, in the present day, the
highest development Of Scotch IN
dustrv is found in the shipyards on
the Clyde, AID the Scotch-Irish ship
wards at Belfast. From these yards
have come a great part Of the mer-
chant and war fleets Of Britain, and,
in the Lusitania, they have their
crowning achievement. In America,
the Scotch and the Scotch-Irish nave
had a wider field for the development
of industrial leadership. All the
world knows what Andrew Carne-
: gle and his associates, largely Scotch
men and men 6f Scotch descent,
achieved in the building up of the
iron and steel industry about Pitts
burg. and Alexander Graham Bell,
the inventor of the telebhone, is a
man Of Scotch ancestry.
Not even the briefest review Of
Scotch achievement would be COM
plete without some reference to the
financial genius Of the race which
produced William Paterson, the
founder of the Bank Of England.
The banking system of Scotland has
naintained an enviable reputation
for, soundness, and is pointed: to to-
day by some of the advocates Of
banking and currency reform as the
model upon which the system of this
country should be based, and l have
no doubt that the high reputation Of
the banks cf 9Oharleston is due, in
no small measure, to influences IN
their management attributable to
the men of Scotch ancestry who
have. from time to time been mem
~ bers Of this society. The fiscal sys-
tenn Of our government was devised
bv maa Of Scotch descent ALEX
ander Hamilton it stands to-