HARRY LAUDER’S VIEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 47, 17 June 1914, Page 4

HARRY LAUDER’S VIEWS.

Does it spoil a Scotchman to emigrate ? Harry Lauder does not think so. At a Burns’ anniversary dinner in Sydne; last week the proposer of the toast of “Our Guests” said Harry Lauder was a man whom prosperity hadn’t spoiled, but it had spoiled a number of Scotchmen to the extent that they wanted to do away with the kilt in Australia. In responding, “Harry” declared that when he looked upon so many cleancut, honest, soncie faces as lie saw before him he felt glad that he was a Scotsman. No matter where a Scotsman planked his foot, he left a mark, whether it be wee, or big, long or broad, and he hoped that when he left Australia that he would have come up to the expectations of the colonial Scot. “There are many present here to-night,” he went on, “who left their country when they were young. They do not know much about the beauties and the sentiment of our beautiful country, and when they speak about it, it is, I understand, sometimes with a feeling of reproach. The other day I met an old Scotch lady, who had been a long time in Australia. ‘Why don’t you stay in Sydney? she asked me. ‘lt does not rain here as often as it does in Greenock.’ (Laughter). ‘No,’ I replied, ‘it does not rain here so often as it does in Greenock, but when it does, it rains' as much in five minutes as it does in Greenock in a week. (Laughter). However; everybody. rightly thinks his own home is the best place, and he would not be worth his salt if he didn’t think so. (Cheers). I admire the spirit that sticks up for its own.”