SCOTCHMEN SLANDERED.
Mr Speight: I hope the Scotch gentlemen in the House will pardon me for saying that there seems to be a disposition on the part of every Scotchman I have spoken to on this subject to say, "We must have a bottle license," T/hat the reason is Ido not know. I have been told that which I believe to be a foul calumny— a libel upon the Scotchmen in the country. I have been told that it arises from this fact: that no Scotchman ever shouts or treats any other man, and he desires to purchase his liquor in such a form that he can take it away in a bottle and help himself. If -this is a libel lam not the author of it j it was told to me by a Scotchman. Dean Swift said that if you put an Irishman on a spit before a fire you could always get a fellowcountryman for five shillings to stand and tarn the spit ; and so, I think, Scotchmen sometimes say things of one another that they would knock another man down for saying. I hope it is not irue that they like to stick to their bottle single-handed ; it seems a selfish kind of drinking. For my part, I think it would be better to give up the bottle altogether, and show their native Scotch cense by abstaining.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 156, 2 July 1881, Page 4
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231SCOTCHMEN SLANDERED. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 156, 2 July 1881, Page 4
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