The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1882-06-09

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can raise enough on this to feed and
cloth 1000, 900 Of people Beneath these
hills and valleys we're hidden, millions ,of
ages ago, by that old miser. the sun,
5000 square miles Of coal The aggfe
gate thickness Of thess veins is over
twentyIfest. Just think8sof a column Of
coal one mile square and sixty miles high. /
All this came from the sun. What a sun
beam this would BEL Fhinkofthe engines
and machines this coal win run land Turn
and whiti Think of ali this force willedI
70 Us BY Rhe dead lmorning Of the world.
Think offthe fresides Of the future, around
which wAl sit happy fathers, mothers and {
children pf the years ID be. The pratt
fling chiIi, the joyous parent. Think Of
the sweet and happy faces, the loving
and tender eyes that viii glow and glsam
in the sacred lightIof aAIthess flames.
The psople are standing now 10 reach
Of an thy convenisnees and comforts 81
life. What it wanting 70 obtain thcm1
I'll tell you what they want. a thorough
geological survey, with All its reports pub
lished and sene abroad, that the world
may know what countless wealth her
mountains hold. She wants to teach tie
oneomiHg generation u Is throw off their
load Of apathy and enervation aud turn
their attention to the material industries,
to the ihauence and power Of a proper
combination of the physical and mental
The worth of acomplete survey 81 this
IS almost infinite, and her Representatives
must see to it that she, has this displayof
her resources, If they win not see imni-
gration9and capital pass them by in the
future IS in TIKI. past. 4, al !
ItIis8 quite gratifying to the hopeful
.friendssof the State to see her Legislature
looking in that direction. II lis however
evidently manifest that in order to attain
this valuable point, the people viii haYet
to cease sending political dead beats and
moss-back Bourbpns ITO their legislative
halls. They must delegate energetic,
alive manhood, men up 70 The times,
men who are cultured and progressive inI
their tendencies and will take. a pride in
advertising their STATE and soliciting thu
attention Of capital and immigration. 4.
Some people, good easy souls that they
are, say, ooh! let us alone, We are doing
well enough, give US time, and we viii
become what We ought. 80 they might
n they had half dozen cepturies. B0t
ths dsys that bred such issA4 thsbs
zre dtad, TheYsforget tiiat llsis ls2
AGE oi progress. stiine of rapid growth
They forget that We are living under thk
mighty influence of coal, steam and ron
And lposing sight Of terrible STRIFE tpr
supremacy, the bright and catering pros
poets which the commerce, industries and
professions of other states offer, they
forget that this Very lethargy, this very
indispostion to graple with these plob
lens is driving out the choicest flowers OF
of West Virginias youth to seek their
fortunes in more propitious fields. They
forget that intellectual development is
impossible without material wealth, They.
forget that this very spirit Of inaction IN
part excuses ous Legislature from over
taxing their poorly worked propeHy. TO
enlarge and equip our University 10
build up academies and common schools.
But what must the people dor Shall
they stand idly BY, while commercial Pov-
erty. social arrogance, and political dcnla-
goglery, like angels Of death, Stalk
through the STATE destructive alike to hu-
man.progress and material wealth. Shall
they always sit upon the rough and rag
ged edge of disBair and look silently upon
the enfeebling and paralyzing influences,
which must inevitably follow sHayethey
at last to realize the 'Iliad Of fhcir woes
Must they be Iovershadowed, ItraRR'ed-
down IN the grand, mad whirI oftshe
nineteenth century, Must the young.
aresh blood Of West Virginia stand cold,
stagnant, motiohless, while her sister
states rush 5on BY the aid 81 modern inn
progements to glory and repown I We
fancy We see the shadows OF shame and
discomfort fit across the bfows Of some.
.Aha If the question were asked, the bright
eyes Of intelligence, the determined an
,swer Of progress would be no Irnbued
with such opinions. we venture the asser-
ton that in less than fifteen years liberal