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Response of W. W. Finley, President Southern Railway 'Company, to Toast at Annual Banquet of the St. Andrew's Society of the City of Charleston, S. C., November 30, 1907. Mr. Toastmaster and Members of the St. Andrew's Society: The toast to which I am to respond, "The Day We 'Celebate: Scotland in Art, Arms, and Industry," is one which invites historical allusions. This is a field which I enter with some trepidation in the presence of my friend Major Hemphill, who has so severely criticised my recent refer ence to the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. The Major may be courageous enough to stand up be fore a Charlotte audience and deny that there ever was any Mecklenburg Declaration, but, if he should do so, I imagine that he would be convinced that Lord Cornwallis made no mis take when he called that town "The Hornet's Nest." There, I am in danger again, for, possibly, it is not' admitted in Charleston that Lord Cornwallis thus characterized Char lotte. However this may be, I pro pose to demonstrate to Major Hemp hill, and to the people of 'Charleston, that my historical statements can be relied upon by declaring that Andrew Jackson was a native of South Caro lina. I know that my good friend Mr. Caldwell, of the 'Charlotte Ob server, contends that Andrew Jack son was born at Waxhaw, which the United Postal, Guide says is a post office in Union county, North Caro lina. But, was he born at the exact spot on the map now known as Wax hawI In an early sketch of the life of Andrew Jackson, I read that he "was born in the Waxhaw settle ment in Lancaster county, South Car olina." "The Waxhaw Settlement" is a very broad, indefinite term, which was doubtless applied to sever al square miles of territory. Lancas ter county, however is definite, and seems to leave no reason to doubt that the hero of New Orleans was born in that part of the Waxhaw set tlement on the ,South Carolina side of the line. Until I get further evi dence, therefore, I shall stand by this early sketch and insist that Andrew Jackson was a native of South car olina. Now, the authenticity of the *3eeklenburg Declaration having be -;' established for North Carolina and 'Andrew Jackson having been given to* South Carolina, I shall expect the Charleston News and Courier and the Charlotte Observer to vie with each other in singing my praises as a his * torian, and I shall not fear that eith er wiRl criticize any statements I i?Lay make this evening. You are proud of the history of 4the St. 'Andrew's Society of the City of Charlest-on and well you may be. It~is not only the oldest organization of the kind in Charleston, but it is one of the oldest in the United Sta tes. Its list of members is a roll of honor, on which are found the names of men who have been prominent in the history of 'Charleston and of our country since colonial days. The list embraces; representatives of every elan and family in Scotland-of fa milies t:hat trace their lineage 'back to the times on 'Duncan and Macbeth, and even to still earlier days. Before the Revolution, colonial governors, offi~ ers of the British Army and of the Royal Navy, and representatives of the noble families of Scotland were proud to be numbered among the members of this society. Surviving the stormy times of the Revolution, the high character of your member ship h.as not deteriorated, and the St. Andrew's Society has ever been foremost in the field of its special -work of assisting the needy and dis -tressed, and relieving the wants of the widow and orphan. It was George Stephenson, a Scot chman, who built the first practica ble locomotive engine and made pos sible the great railway systems of the world. The people of Charleston were among the earliest in the Unit ed States to appreciate the import ance of railways. The construction of the railway from Charl.eston to Hamberg, which was undertaken in 1827, was the first result, and when this line was put in operation through out its entire length of one hundred and thirty-six miles, on Oct. 1, 1833, it enjoyed the distinction of being the longest continuous railway in the world. Eoneouraged by the success of this line, the people of Charleston .conceived the larger scheme of build ing a great railway niorthwesterly through the states of South Carolina a.nd North Carolina, passing down the valley of the French Broad river and across the mountains into Ten. nessee, thence via Knoxville to Lex inerton. Ky.. and thiec to Cincinnati. The di;iehies in the wayv of this en terni'e wmX too great to be easily' overeome, but t he peopl1e of Charles toni kept constantly in mind the ir nortance to their port of rail com-- 6 m11uication witii the Ohi() and Mis sissippi River gateways. As Char lest on is the principal seaport in South Carolina, your city has evei had the united 'support of the state and the legislative enactments o: Eouth Carolina show that since 1832 it has been the continuous, persistent and cherished policy of this atate t< establish a railroad from Charleston through Columbia, over the moun tains to the valleys of the Tennessee and Ohio rivers. The carrying out of this policy was delayed not only by the difficulty of surmounting the phy sical obstacles in the way, but, al so, by the Civil War, which -left all of our industries prostrate and the railways of our section almost de stroyed. I hope it may yet prove that the Southern Railway Company, by the amalgamation into a single system of disjointed lines, by the con struction of connecting links, and through projects under way, has brought about the realization of the persistent dream of Charleston and of South Carolina of a great highway connecting your port with the interior of the south and with the gateway of the west. I realize that Charleston may not in the past have obtained the full benedfits that were expected to follow from the establishment of through rail communication with the west, and with the interior of the state, but I hope that the results of a arecent un dersanding between the representa tives of the City of Charleston, un der the lead of an honored member of this society, your able and ener getic mayor, and the representatives of the railways, who met, not in a spirit of antagonism, but mutually recognizing the interdependence of their interests, will inure to the ad vantage of Charleston and of South Carolina, and, through the advance ment of your prosperity, will be beneficial to the railways. The course that was followed in this case is, I believe, the proper one te be adopted in -all cases where ques tions arise between communities and carriers as to transportation rates or service. In such conferences where each side has ample opportun ity to present its facts and arguments and to have them considered as pure ly business questions, I believe tha1 it is almost inevitable that an agree. mnent will be reached which will d< substatial justice to all the interests involved and will be based on souni economic principles. In the cases it which it may be found impossible t< reach an agreement in this way, I d( not think there is reason for agita. tion which, if carried to extremes may disturb business and he injuriou to the community, as well as to t~h carrier. There are Federal and Stat tribunals with full authority to heal these questions and to settle them ir accordance 'with the prineiples of jus ice and even-h'anded impartiality. It is of the utmost importance, ] believe, that, in the consideration of sall questions affecting transporta tion, and in the determination of public policies affecting transporta tion agencies, there should be kept constantly in view the two basic economic principles that efficiency of transportation facilities is essentia] to' the prosperity of any community, and that the prosperity of the com munities served by it is essential to the prosperity of the carrier' when these two principles are thoroughly understood, and are consistently aet ed upon, I am convinced it will be found that, in every instance; the ultimate interests, of the coin'munity and of the carrier are identical.- This being true, all that is necessary for the settlement of any question is that the community and the carriers in the spirit of the St. Andrew's So ciety, shall have ''a good uinderstand ing and acquaintance with one an other,'' and,. keeping in view the economic laws which control the sit uation, shall debate it out until they reach a conclusion as to the settle ment, in their best judgment, will work substantial justice to all con eerned, a.nd advance, not merely the immediate interests of one side or the other, but the ultimate interests of both. You anjoy 'the advantage of the best harbors on the Atlantic Coast and other advantages with re ference to the markets of the West Indies and all of the Eastern ports of the Central and South American countries. The possibility of building up an enlarged t'rade with these countries is one that may well re ceive your attention, for the reports of the Bureau of Statistics in the De partment of Comni'erce and Labor show that exports from the United States to the Latin-American coun tries are g'rowing at a rate far in ex -es of the total increase in exports. TIhe latest available fhiures. those for he nine. montI1h; ended Septemnber Mbth. 'show that in the nine months ~f ibis year the total value of ex ports to the T.ain-American con. 1 i'tis .r-c1dc?ledi the fi"nn" -s 1'r lite same period last year by 13.7 per cent, while the increase in the value of expor's to all other parts of the world amounted to only 6.6 per cent. The Latin-American trade is, there fore, well worth looking after, espe cially as those countries consume large quantities of cotton mill. pro ducts such as are manufactured in the Southern mills. We celebrate this day as the one hundred and seventy-eight anniver sary of the founding of the St. An-. drew's Society of the City of Char leston. We also celebrate it as the anniversary of the martyrdom of your patron Saint, the apostle St. Andrew, who, we are told in eccles iastical histo,.y, was crucified in Achaia on the 30th of November, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven years ago. According to a tradition r dear to every Scot, the remaias of the apostle were removed in the third century to Scotland, where they were entombed in a church built in his honor by a Pictish king on a site where the ancient city of St. An drews .4ow stands. Hence, he be came the patron Saint of Scotland and of the Scot in whatever land he may be found. "Scotland in Art, Arms, and In dustry.'' What an opportunity this text offers for laying the foundation for historical controversies beside which those as to the Mecklenburg Declaration and the birthplace of An drew Jackson would pale into in signifieance. My only safety lies in generatities. In the arts, the genius of the Scotch race has tended to the indus trial arts, rather than to what are termed the fine arts, though there have been Scotch painters 'of note, including the Scotch-American, Charles Gilbsrt Stuart, whose por traits, painted in the early days of the Republic, Ihave established his lasting fame, and throughout' the highlands and the lotclands, castles, 4 cathedrals, and abbeys bear witness to the nobility of the Seotch archi- F tecture, which, perhaps, found its highest expression in Melrose Abbey, one of the finest examples of the British Gothic. It is, however, in literary art that Scotland has excell ed. As long as the English language shall endure, the int'ense human in ,terest of the poems of Robert Burns6 will appeal to the hearts of men, and the chivalric romance of the poems and novels of Sir Walter Scott will inspire high thoughts <and honorable deeds. In our own day, Robert Louis Stevenson, James M. Barrie, e and others, have worthily upheld the t sta2idard of Scotch literature, while e among our own American authors, ~ two of the most brilliant-Washing- ~ ton Irving and Edgar Allen Poe S were men of Scotch descent. 1 The history of Scotland has been C the history of the Scots in arms. In i the older days, when they had no one 1 else to -fight, they could always be a relied upon to fight among themsel- .9 yes. Their courage and daring .may 1: have~ been approached by that of oth- e er races; they have never been ex- c celled. The tide of R.oman conquest, s5 and the a-dvance of Caesar's con- a guering legions were staid at the a Scotitish highlands and Hadrian's !d wall was a monument to Scottish c valor. For 16 centuries after Caes ar's. invasion of Britain, Scotland, t< though often r. -'t by internal strife, T -maintained an almost constant war- I fare, along the border. In the lan- g guag~e of Burns' 'beautiful tribu.te to t Caledoniar- f "A lambkin in peace, but a lion in g war,a The pride of her kindred the he- b rome grew;a Her grandsire, old Odin, triumph- ir antly swore, h 'Who 'er shall provoke thee th' en- y counter shall rue.'' t< Generations of English kings, of- w ten taking advantage of dissensions te among the Scots, were' unable to suc- r1 eeed where the Romans had failed. ti Scotland was never wholly subdued, and maintained its independence un- g til a Scottish king sat on the throne C. of England and the two kingdoms ei were merged into one. 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