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

n inventor or lOgarlthm, and that SIR
n Charles Napier VINO has been called,
# the acknowledged hero of family of
81 heroes. And who has not felt his
E blood run faster as he read of Luck
u now, with it's little band. Of Britons
4 and their women and children, hud-
Il died together, expecting every NOM
il ent to be overwhelmed by the hordes
& of mutinous Sepoys, when
Il cup spake Scottish maiden,
With her ear upon the ground:
/ 'Dinna We hear it7-dinna We hear it?
~ The pipes of Havclock sound'!'
Then, with what joy they listened,
! while
"Louder, neare>, fierce rs 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
u the Scotch-Trish have shown them
#i selves worthy descendants of their
#fvaliant sres. From the border wars
6$with the French and Indians iii Col
S&Sonial days, to the War with Spain,
&$$ and the pacilication of the Phillip
i&S pines, the Scotch and the Scotch
%S Irish have ever borne an honorable
I$ part 1t was n Scotclman, Il mem
AZ Der of your own society. General Will
liam Moultric. and his handful Of
heroic men, who, by the defeat of the
British fleet under Sir Peter Par
ker, irrevocablv committed the Caro-
linas to the cause of independence,
and it is well known in Charlotte that
the Mecklcnbur@ Declaration of In
dependence were Of Scotch and
Scotch-Irish descent. Tt was Scot
VINO carried the victorious arms of
our country to the Capital Of Mexico,
and to tell oc even the most distin-
guished of the Scotch and Scotch
Irish who participated on both sides
in our Civil War would make any adj
dress far too long for an occasion
such as this.
Tn their native land Inc 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-
vclopcd. Ship building has thrived
in Scotland since the time Of The
Bruce, and. i'll the present day, the
highest development of Scotch in
dnstrv is found in The shipyards on
the Clyde, and the Scotch-TriSh ship
yards ut Belfast. From these yards
have come great part Of the mer-
chant and war fleets Of Britain and,
in the Iusitania, they have their
browning achievement In America.
the Scotch and the Scotch-Trish have
had a wider field for the development It
of industrial leadership. All the
world knows what Andrew Carne-
gie 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 tclcbhonc. is a
man of Scotch ancestry.
Not even the bricfcst review Of
Scotch achievement would be COM
plctc without some reference to the
financial genius Of the race which
produced William Paterson, the
founder 0f the Bank of England.
The banking system Of Scotland has
: maintaincd an cnviable reputation
FORK (soundnesS, AID is pointed to to-
day Wy some of the advocates of
banking and currency reform as thc
model 'Won which Inc system Of this
counirygShould he based. and | have
no doubk tlMt the high reputation Of
the bsnEs Of charleston is due, il
no small measure, 10 influences in
their management attributable to
the men of Scotch ancestry who
have from time to time been mem
bcrs Of this society. The fiscal sys-
n I