The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-10-04
TO SCOTS OVERSEAS.

When Europe is drenched in blood
to assert the rights of small nations,
and to secure their peoples protec-
ton trom.the menace of autocratic
Prussian m%ilitarism, Scotland has
surely a right to be heard touching
her needs.
Her sons have freely shed their
blood in all parts of the world where
right joined issue with the wrong.
While thus they fought and bled
and died that others should be free,
they bore with wondrous patience the
grievous wrongs so long endured in
their own bonnie land.
Long, long have Scotsmen waited
for the time when simple justice, if
not gratitude, would bring from An
glo-Saxon rule some recognition of
their nations help in Britian's march
to greatness.
Yet years flowed by and decades
have to centuries stretched out, while
Scotland's straths and glens to aliens
sports are given Ger. Her people from
their homes were swept to find new
refuge I'VE seas.
And still the Homeland bleeds.
Deserted straths and villages now
where deer and hare, with grouse an
half their former size, fringe moor
pheasants sacred to the magnates'
sport, with streams we'll stocked with
salmon and fine Scottish trout but
mock the half starved cottars' gaze.
He dare not touch these creatures for
his own homeland, for English law to
German Counts and foreign magnates
have them long assigned.
If food they lack, the Highland lads
and lasses to the aliens homes must
go to black their bdots or carry roun
their we'll filled game-bags, and take
for that base service such pittance as
the lords allow.
YES, THIS IS SCOTLAND NOW!
The Highland League founded over
a. century ago on the strath of Kill
donan, Sutherland, is known to Scots
the world over as the great fighting
organization of the North whose
members were ever prepared to suffer
personal inconvenience, or sor perse-
cution that the peoples right might
be maintained. In recent years the
League has slumbered somewhat, lull-
ed to repose by the specious promises
of English politicians; but the disil-
lusionment has come. Scotland is
Uttered with broken promises of pro-
fessed friends, and her people are
awakening to the situation. The old
HIGHLAND LAND LEAGUE has
sprung to life again, and raising the
slogan, "AUTONOMY for SCOT
LAND!" is attracting thousands to
it's ranks. Strong divisions have been
formed not only in highland towns,
and villages, but in the great cities
of Edinburgh, Glasgow and London.
The DEMOCRACY of Scotland re-
allies that if the country is to be
saved from ruin: it must again assume
control of it's own affairs.
The Scottish Parliament must be
re-opened.
Other large organizations are TAX
ing a hand in the campaign and men
and women are giving freely time and
talents to the cause.
Scots abroad who would like to have
a share in this movement for the land
of their birth, are invited to cooperate
with their means.
Funds are essential for the cam
paign, and the bulk of the folks at
home are so poor. It will need a big
effort to lift Scotland out of the con-
dition she has been allowed to get in
to; but if every Scot puts his back
into the thing it will soon be done.
The killed lads of the North are
away with the lead towards the grand
objective. The philabeg swings for
ward, the pipes are skirling, the hea-
theirs ablaze! the slogan resounds,
"WHOSE FOR SCOTLAND YETI"
"WHO FOLLOWS?"
THE HIGHLAND LAND LEAGUE
The offices of the Highland Land
League Central Council are at the
Bruce News Service Offices, 161a
Strand, London. The honorary escre-
tary being G. J. Bruce, ESQ.,, and the
President of the Council, Angus Mac
Donald, ESQ.,, Bankers r Llodys
Bank, Ltd, Strand, London.
Motto: "Air son Dachaidh agus
Duthcha"-(For Home and Country
Anyone of Scottish birth or Of
Scottish descent interested in the
"Call" may obtain further informa-
ton by making inquiry of Flora
Cameron Burr, Bottineau, North Da-
kota. Adv.
DISTRICT COURT.
District Court convened at the
Court House, Monday at 500 o'clock
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