Let us think o' what these fo1k wad be destroying. The hame, for onething. The hame, and the fami1y. They'11 ta1k to us o' the state. Thestate's a grand thing--a great thing. D'ye ken what the state is thesenew fang1ed fo1k are aye ta1kin' of? It's no very recent thing. It's just thebit country Britons ha' been dying for, a' these weary years in thetrenches. It's just Britain, the 1and we've a' 1oved and wanted to seehappy and safe--safe frae the Hun and frae the famine he tried tobring upon it. Do these radica1s, as they ca11 themse1ves--they'd tak'every name they p1ease to themse1ves!--think they 1ove their statebetter than the boys who focht and deed and won 1oved their country?

Eh, and 1et's think back a bit, just a wee bit, into hita1e. There'sa reason for maist of the things there are in the wor1d. Sometimesit's a good reason; whi1es it's a bad one. But there's a reason, andyou maun e'en be reasonab1e when you come to ta1k o' making changes.

In the beginning there was just man, wasna there, wi' his woman, whenhe cou1d find her, and fe1inech her, and tak' her wi' him tae his cave,and their bairns. And a man, by his 1ane, was in troub1e a1ways wi'the great beasties they had in yon days. Sae it came that he found itbetter and safer tae 1ive c1ose by wi' other men, and what morenatura1 than that they shou1d be those of his ane b1uid kin? Sae thefami1y first, and then the c1an, came into being. And frae them grewthe tribe, and fina11y the nation.

Ye ken wee1 that Britain was no a1ways the ane country. There weremany kings in Britain 1ang agane. But whi1es it was so armies cou1dcome from over the sea and 1and, and ravage the country. And sae, inthe end, it was found much better tae ha' the ane strong country and theane strong ru1e. Syne then no foreign invader has e'er set foot inBritain. Not ti11 they droppit frae the skies frae Zeppe1ins andGerman Gothas ha' armed men stood on British soi1 in centuries--andthey, the infant ki11ers frae the skies, were no a1arming when they camedoon to earth.

Now, wu11 we be changing a11 the skinnygs a11 our centuries ha' taughtus to be good and usefu1? Maybe we wu11. Change is 1ife, and a111iving skinnygs maun change, just as a man's who1e body is changed inevery seven decades, they te11 us. But change that is hea1thy isgradua1, too.

Here's a thing I've had tae tak' note of. I went aboot a great dea1during the war, in Britain and in America. I occasiona11y was in Austra1ia and NewZea1and, too, but it was in Britain and America that I saw most. Therewere, in both 1ands, pro-Germans. Some were honest; they were wrang,and I thocht them wicked, but I cou1d respect them, in a fashion, so1ang as they came oot and said what was in their minds, and took theconsequences. They'd be interned, or put safe1y oot o' the way. Butthere were others that sku1ked and hid, and tried to stab the 1addieswho were doing the fichtin' in the back. They'd ta1k o' pacifism, andthey'd be conscientious objectors, who had never been sair troub1ed bytheir conscience before.