The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-05
SOUTH, YOUNG MANa

CoME SOUTH, YOUNG MANa
President Harrison, on his tour through the
South, after having seen the wonderful.
growth OF Lynchburg, Bedford City, Roanoke.
Salem, Radford, Pulaski, wythovillo and Abing-
don and the industrial development I'm progress
along the line OF the Norfolk and Western
railroad. and viewed the country of south
west Virginia, said in his speech to the people
at 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 a very striking wov tho i'm
pulse of new development. 1t Is extremely
gratifying to notice that those hidden sources
of wealth which were SO long unobsorvel and
SO long unused are now being found, and that
ehOoS hSSiOus, OucO SO rctlreu, occupied by
toral people, having difficult access to the CEN
ter OF population, are now being rapidly trans
formcdinto busy manufacturing and CONNER
clal ccntors. In the early settlement of this
country emigrants poured over the Alleghanics
Il El,,<.
ing lodge. seeking the fertile and attractive
farm regions of the great West They passed
unobscrvcd these marvellous hidden stores OF
wealth which are now being brought int O use
Having filled those great basins OF tho
west, they arc now turning back to Virginia
and West Virginia and Tennessee to bring
ABOUT the full development and production
Tor which time is ripe and which will surprise
the world. 1t has not been long since every
implement of iron, domestic, agricultural and
mechanical, was made for you in other States.
Inc iron point of the wooden mold board plow
with which the carly farmers here turned tho
SOIL, came from distant States. But now Vir-
GINA and Tennessee arc stirring their energies
10 participate ina large degree III mechanical
productions and in the great awakening of
American commerce and American influence
which will lift the nation to place among
the nations of the world never before Mt
tancd
what is 10 hinder us when we have secured
the markets OF our own states that We shall
reach out and enter into successful compct-
min the markets of other parts or the world?
say what is to hinder this people, possessing
by the providence OF God, all the elements of
material wealth; endowed with Il genius and
energy unsurpassed among the nations of the
earth, shall again have on the great seas mer-
chant marine flying the iag OF the common
country and carrying its commerce into every
sea and unfolding 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 rs people. i am glad to stand with YOU
on one common platform of respect for the
constitution; differing rs some Of us may do in
our opinions US to what the law should be and
how it should DO applied; having in view one
common devotion of obedience to the law MS
the majority of our people. by their own repro
| scntativcs, make it.
II shall carry away from here n renewed i'm
| pulse to public duty; new inspiration rs a
citizen and that, too, OF a country whose great
ness is only dnwning.
And now let me express to you the pleasure
shall have in every good that can come TO Won
MS community, and to each OF you as indi-
viduais. 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 tho United States.
FROM BOSTON AND NEW ENGLAND.
| Come via Merchants and Miners Steamship
Line, via Norfolk; Pennsylvania Railroad Win
| Norfolk, or ashington, or Harrisburg: Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad. via Shenandoah
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 Pittsburg, or via Chattanooga, or
via Columbus and Ashland.
For all information, maps, reference books,
pamphlets. etc., descriptive OF the wonderful
mineral and agricultural resources of the
States OF Virginia and West Virginia. apply to
| agents OF the Norfolk and Western Railroad,
NO. 2gU Washington street. Boston; No. 500
broadway, New York; No 1i;s3 Pennsylvania
avenue, Washington, ID. c.; No. u East State
street, Columbus, Ohio, or General Office, Ron
nOba Va. oov.,o,n