SCOTLAND WITHOUT ANY SCOTS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 30 November 1912, Page 9

SCOTLAND WITHOUT ANY SCOTS

Canadian magnetism is doing for Scotland what American magnetism has done for Ireland; it is depopulating it, and prophetic Scotsmen are dreading the advent of a "Scotland without any Scots.'' A Glasgow manufacturer tells the London Standard that so heavy is the emigration to the dominions, and especially to Canada, of the finest of Scottish town workers that "there will soon be no Scottish industrial population at all in Scotland. Within the last decade all the best native hands whom my firm employed have packed up and left; The whole- idea of the modern enterprising Scottish workman is to transfer himself to Canada. Ouce settled, they use their clannish feeling to get their relatives or even their mends over. The more prosperous the workman any manufacturer in Scotland employs now, the more certain he feels or losing him at the moment of his full utility and prosperity. They do not wish to get on the land in Canada but to try their luck in industry there. Ihere will probably be many serious labor troubles in Scotland in'the. near future, largely due to the fact that so few of the laborers remain Scotsmen."