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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. From that og
day to this, wherever British troops gr
have fought, Scoteh regiments a#d b'
Scotch officers have ever been in the s.
Thickest of the, fray. It was a Scot- o
ehman, Sir Ralph Abercrombie, of di
whose family the second President of
your society was a member, who, in
the battle of Alexandria, supplement
ed Lord Nelson's victory at the bat
ele of the Nile, and shattered_Napol- I
eon's dream of an Eastern Empire. er
Who has not been thrilled by the ki
story of the expedition for the resene le
of the Englis'i prison;s ar Magdala th
by Gent-r al Niapier. afterwards Lor'd
Napier of Matzdala, a member of thle N
celebrated Scotch family which has et
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