Fo the Editor of the "Nowrat-CuiA DAMLY News."
S1m,—May I crave tie hospitality of your: columns briefly to outline the chief reasons why it has been jought necessary to found Scottish National Movement, the principal aim of which is to set up independent Patliament Scotland which would of course remain within the elrele of the British cations?
The grand error that our opponents and many of our wellyishers make ix in thinking that riving to further the cause of Scottish independence we are animated by commercial, political or imilar reasons alone. On the con-stary, our ideals are wholly and absolutely Nationalist in character. To put the matter more crudely, we sire to ce Scotland lead ther own!
ional existence, to fulfil her national destiny in her own way. Our outlook, our manners, thoughts, and hopes are not those of our naig! fours. Our ease rests on the eiveuntstance that we are an entirely dis-Yimet people, with a record 5f "+parate national progress reaching iiaek nearly 1500 years and ponsessog indefeasible national rights of cur own, All tae argument in the! world cannot gainsay lieut fet, and £¢r its complete vindication we tholi continue to strive until Fageess crowns our efforts.
The present is unquestionably Seotland's hour of destiny. She ust assert herself now as a nation, Binger on in the sloush of provi talism for generations to come. Te! 4 mot the duty of ary one man of tody of men to recognize this neces city or take ection to make it pass som the region of the idea to the petual, but of everyone of Scotiish well as humble, Let us recollect that we are not asking a favour but demanding a right.
"The Scottish National Movement now demands that a separate Scottisa Parliament be erected, the destinies of Scotland to remain in the hands of that Parliament as elected by the Scottisi people. That is a clear call, 4 definite objective towards which work, a cause which men and women of all classes and parties can understand-and join in striving for.
If other incentives be needed, the the spectacle of our population gradtually being diverted to Canada, the influx of countless thousands _of people of alien races, the usurpation of the land for sporting purposes and the continued neglect of public business, should surely suffice tol cause the dullest of Scotsmen" io Protest against conditions" which would be tolerated nowhere else in the world.
Scottish nationalism must rem: an ideal founded on deep and sacred sentiment; but if itis to be practical ly successful it must extend its Activities out of the region of senti-] rent and vision into those of action and sacrifice. Consciousness of race-feeling! That is our sheet-anchor. Let all Scotsmen and women join the} Scottish National Movement, which has now 4,000 members, and help to accelerate its advance from a slow march to a victorious charge! Will all persons in favour of this object communicate at once with the! Organizer, Scottish Nationa} Movement, 4 Stafford Street, Edinburgh?
T am, et Lewis Srexce.
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