SCOTLAND’S TRAGEDY

Evening Star, Issue 19722, 24 November 1927, Page 5

SCOTLAND’S TRAGEDY

INFLUX OF LOW-GRADE IRISH NATIONALITY BEING SWAMPED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. , LONd'on, November 22. Dean Inge’s expression of grave apprehension regarding tho unrestricted influx of low-grade Irish into Scotland has occasioned lively interest in the possibility of Scotland becoming merely a. colony of tho Irish Free State. The Rev. Duncan Cameron, of Glasgow, a formdr moderator, rejoices that “ such an anfchorativo voice as Dean Inge’s has sounded a warning of the tragedy to tho Scottish race.” Mr Cameron says that tho crisis has definitely arrived—ls Scotland to bo 'Scottish' or is it to he an Irish Colony ? All the sigps at present point to Scotland ceasing to bo Scotland 50 years hence, and its nationality and culture will bo entirely swamped. He quotes remarkable figures for 10 years ended in 1921, in which the Irish in Scotland increased by 82,335; the Scottish increase in the same period being 39,049. REPLY TO DEAN INGE. “SHOULD LEAVE IRISH ALONE.” DUBLIN, November 23. , (Received November 24, at 8.45 a.m.) Mr John Nugent, secretary of the Order of Hibernians, retorting to Dean luge’s remarks, declared that tho lowgrade Irish from Liverpool and Glasgow were the exact type British officers were glad to have near them in the war time. Dean Inge should cultivate a-friendship of his simian cousins and leave the Irish alone.”—Sydney ‘Sun’ Cable. (Dean Inge, lecturing to the Science Guild of Birth Control, said that it was plain that there was no room for large families, the citizens must act in accordance with their duty to children and the country, but they must recognise the risk of inferior immigrants filling up over-prudent Englishmen’s places. “ That has happened in tho United States,” he said, “and we cannot view without apprehension the unrestricted influx of low-grade Irish in Liverpool, Glasgow, and the west _of Scotland. The miserable British physique is uuparalled in Europe, and the French and the Germans are superior to the British as a whole, though the upper-class Englishman is still a fine animal. The cultivation of bodily perfection should bo more widely encouraged.”]