The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-03-06
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1t ia hardly more than month Hince
thu INTgLLIeENoER suggested that a good
time hGd come for a vigorous blowing
OF West Virgiuia's horn. The idea was
tnss tho Round Of tho Bweet music would
echo through our mountains and up and
down our valleys snd be heard beyond
tho limits Of our own State.
To-day this doea not seem to have been
q bold prophecy, but rather just what
anybody had good reason to expect
though the INTELEGEECER freely admits
for itself that it ws5 suggested with more
hope than confident expectation. The
thing could have been done by West Vir-
g!niG, bu. tbaro was no absolute GER
tainty thCt /. would be- done. Now 1t has
boon done, and tho great convention oil
earnest men of West Virginia has been
au rhetorical epoch for only few days.
The fire. return-beiore there was any
hope to hear from the State at large
came from the great newspapers OF the
country. They had heard the blowing OF
our horn and thought it by no means IN
unpleasant sound, aud took it up to re-
echo it fer and vide. Their columns have
been giving place to more about West
Virginia than ever before, the proceedings
relating to the foundation OF tho State not
excepted. They have been telling their
great constituency Of readers what we are
doing and assuring them that We have the
substantial foundation to build upon.
Ths rich material resources Of West Vir'
ginia have spArkled in their news col.
umna, the able editors have for the
moment Gtepped aside from the discussion
OF politics, strikes, and the Grown Princes
throat, to suggest to men Of capital, Of mus
Gle and of energy, that they might do a
wise thing to cast prospecting eye over
the fair field OF the Mountain State.
S1me OF their comments have already
been printed, and more are given to the
public to-day. Gan the people OF West
Virginia realize it2 Itsesms like dream.
The Yves. Virginisn has almost to stick q
pin in himself before he can believe shat
he Is awake and surrounded by the prac'
teal realities Of life.
Tho result to him is, II possible, still
more gratifying, for the movement which
the people have undertaken rests primsri-
ly aud essentially on the popular support,
and tbs homepeopleare moving in earnest.
Tho serious men who participated in the
Wheeling Convention on the 10Th Of Fob
ruary--a day that has already been made
memorable in West Virginia-have gone
to their homes and their good reports OF
the work done in the Convention are be-
ing reflected by willing and sympathetic
newspapers in their localities. Without
reserve they endorse both the epirit and
the work of the Convention and predict
as final result the most abundant fruits.
This is more than pleasing to the busi-
siness men Of Wheeling who, through
their Chamber OF Commerce, put this ball
in motion. It is gratifying to hear these
kindly comments on the efforts made by
the representative body Of business men
in the principal city Of the State.
tits far more gratifying to be assured
that the movem ent has taken go deep q
hold and assumed 60 broad scope that
Wheeling figures in it only as an integral
part OF an earnest and determined whole.
Good agthe beginningi Is, letitnot beforgot-
ten, fellow West Virsinians, that 1t Is only
the beginning, and to stop here would be
to defeat hope whose realization depends
solely upon the systematic and uutiring
perseverance, now and in the future. We
may, indeed, tiud as we 90 further that
the plan Of campaign needs modiaca-
ton or remodeling. It would be strange
If it were to appear that every detail
Of the necessary work had been forseen
in advance.
But this much Is true beyond q
shadow oil a doubt; that we have
started we'll, aud that the intelligence Of
the people of West Virginia will be equal
to such demsnds as may be made upon
II in tho further prosecution Of the work.
We do not understand that anybody has
any special prediction for particular
plan; hut having we'll laid out plan for
the work, 1t seems to be the purpose to
do the best that can be done on that basic,
keeping our eye open for any advice
that may be submitted. We have under
taken q business enterprise as business
men. We shall, Of course, push forward
In q busiroas.like way.