CAN A SCOTCHMAN LOSE ANYTHING?

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 134, 8 June 1907, Page 6

CAN A SCOTCHMAN LOSE ANYTHING?

" I am," said Mr G. H. Reid, at the Sydney Town Hall, during the celebration oi tlie bi-centenary of flic Union of England and Scotland, " practically asked the question, 'What has Scotland gained by_ the union?' -Trueto one of the peculiarities of my Scottish fellow-countrymen, I answer it by asking another question: ' What has she lost?' '(Applause and laughter.) So far as my knowledge of Scotchmen '■.goes, .'it- is rather, difficult to discover what any Scotchman has lost by any bargain-!"' (Laughter.). Concluding a fine address, he stated that iii 'the course of time the Empire's supremacy would be challenged, but lie thought we- might all hope and believe that the British Empire was dne that iio lapse of time could weaken, and no storm of shock and shell- destroy. (Cheers.)