The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-12
GONE SOUTH, YOUNG MAN?

CONE SOUTH, YOUNG MANs
| President Harrison, on his tour through the
| South, after having seon the wonderful
growth OF Lynchburg, Bedford City, Roanoke,
| Salem, Radford, Pulaski, w thcvllle and Abing-
don and the industrial development in progress
along the line OF tho Norfolk and Western
railroad, and viewed tho country OF south
west Virginia, said In his speech to tho people
ut Bristol. Va.
MY Fellow Citizens: / have found not only
pleasure, but instruction in riding to-day
through the portion OF the State OF Virginia
that is feeling in very striking way tho i'm
pulse Oh now development. 1t is extremely
gratifying to notice that those hidden sources
OF wealth which were 80 long unobsorvcd and
so long unused are nov being found. and That
these regions once 30 retired, occupied by pas
toral people, having difficult acccszs to tho con,
ter of population. are now being raEidly trans
formed into busy manufacturing and CONNER
cial ccntcrs. In the carly scttlemcr,s of this
country emigrants poured over the Aleyhanics
0fIl linn
ing ledge. seeking she fertile and attractive
farm regions of the great West. They passed
unObscrvcd these marvellous hidden storae OF
wealth. which are now being brought into uec
"IInving filed those. great basins of She
West, they now turning back to Virginia
and West Virginia and Tennessee to bring
about the full development and production.
for which time is ripe AMI which will surprise
tho world. 1t has not been long since every
implement OF iron, domestic, agricultural and
mechanical was made for you in other States.
The iron point OF the wooden mold board plow,
with which 1hc early farmers here turned tho.
soil, came from distant States. Bot now Vir4
ginia and Tennessee are stirring their energies
10 itTtlclputS In u large ucErec Ia mechanical
productions and in the Lrsat awakening of
American commerce and American influence
which will lift the nation to n place among
the nations CT the world never before ut
tanned.
"What is to binder us when we have secured
the markets OF our own states that shall
reach out AMI enter into successful compcti-
ton in the markets of other PARTS OF the worlda
say what Is to hinder this people, possessing
by the providence OF God, all the clements of
material wealth; endowed with genius and
energy unsurpassed among the nations of the
earth, shall again have on the great seas IL mer-
chant marine flying the tlng of the common
country and carrying its commerce into every
sea and upholding its honor in every port;
II am glad to-day to stand for this moment
among you and to express my sympathy with
any and every interest that tends to develop
you us II people. I am glad to stand with you
on one common platform of respect for the
constitution; differing some OF us may do In
| Our opinions to what the law should be and
| how it should he applied having in view one
| common devotion or obedience to the law rs
| the majority OF our people, by their own repre-
| scntutivcs, make II.
| II shall carry away from here a renewed i'm
pulse 10 public duty; n new inspiration rs n
citizen, and that, too, OF II country whose great
ness is only dawning.
| -A.iu HOW lct me express 10 you inc pleasure
| shall have in every good that can come to you
! rs a community, and to each OF you rs indi-
viduals. May peace, prosperity and social
order dwell in all your families and the fear
! and love of God in every home"
COME TO VIRGINIA.
| The Coming Wool Growing, Agricultural and
Iron Producing State in the United States.
| FROM BOSTON AND NEW ENGLAND,
| Come Via Merchants and Minors Steamship
Line via Norfolk; Pennsylvania Railroad, via
1 Norfolk, or Washington, or Harrisburg; BaltI-
/ more and Ohio railroad, via Shenandoah
I Junction.
| FROM NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, PENN
! SYLVANIA, DELAWARE, MARYLAND.
Come via Old Dominion Steamship Line. via
!. Norfolk; Pennsylvania Railroad, via Norfolk,
| or Washington, or Harrisburg; Baltimore and
| Ohio Railroad, via Shenandoah Junction.
| FROM THE WEST
| Come via Pittsburs, via Chattanooga, or
| via Columbus and Ashland
1 For all information, maps, reference books,
pamphlets. etc, descriptive of the wonderful
J mineral and agricultural resources OF the
| States Of Virginia and West Virginia, apply to
! agents of the Norfolk and Western Railroad,
J No. 2a0 Washington street. Boston; No. SOB
I broadway, New York; No. liY} Pennsylvania