Mr Andrew Carnegie on Home Rule for Scotland.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 348, 6 March 1889, Page 4

Mr Andrew Carnegie on Home Rule for Scotland.

Mk Andrew Cajinkoij:, writing to the 'New York Tribune, 1 says: — While it is certain that tho people of Scotland are in favour of Scottish Home Hule to an extent which surprises me, and which ha 3 surprised most Americans and Englishmen who have resided in Scotland recently, and among tho former none more than Mr Blaino, still ie is not less true that if the demand to have the local affairs ot Scotland managed in Edinburgh could possibly weaken the union between Scotland and England, there would not be found any party in its favour. Itis, indeed, a strange thing for Americans to see in the management of its own local affairs by each individual State a menace to the union of the parts which, whon united, constitute the nation. The advocates of Home Rule for Scotland, and for Ireland and for Wales, are men who believe that if each of these countries had the rights of an American State, the empire would be strengthened therby. They hold that this republic has proved that the freest government of the parts produces the strongest government- of the whole. It is therefore as consolidates and strengthened of the British Empire, an 1 not as its disintegrators and destroyers, that the advocates of a system of Home Rule for each division stand boldly forth. Let me assure you that the Scottish Homo Rule movementforebodes.no attack upon the unity of the British Empire. The Empire is not to be dismembered by it. On the contrary, ib will, 1 believe, l>e greatly strengthened.