THE SCOTTISH SOCIETY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 223, 14 June 1919, Page 8

THE SCOTTISH SOCIETY

No true Scot will be insensible tu the appeal that is made by Mr. Alexander Campbell, Chief'of the Wellington Scottish Society, , for a united effort to preserve the sentiment and tradition of the Scottish race and impress their inspiration on the rising generation. The appeal is made on such grounds as instantly commend themselves. Thero is no thought of drawing Scottish people- together as an exclusive faction intent on promoting narrow self-interest. Hern as in other lands he has helped to populate and upon which he has sot his mark the Scot can well afford and is well content to merge his political identity with , that 'of his fellow-country, men. But loyalty to 'a new. land is very, far from demanding that love of the old land.in which the Scottish people grew to greatness should die away and be forgotten. The Scottish race developed through centuries in conditions under which a feebler stock .would have sunk into oblivion, but which only tempered it like steel. To look back on such a record is to derive new strength for the struggles that lie ahead, and in a young democracy there is everything to be gained by keeping it well to the fore, The gifted sons of Scotland have".enshrined her story and spirit in literature and song that are a golden heritage not only to their own kinsmen, but to the world. On all grounds the organised effort that is to be made locally to popularise Scottish literature, song, and story is worthy of the heartiest support. There is no better corrective for what is cheap and shallow in modeirn life than to give due , thought and place to what is enduring in the, traditions of. a bygone' day, and the traditions of Scotland are worth preserving and keeping in evergreen memory.