The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-09-18
AC()NE SOUTH! YOUNG han. I


Presidcnt Harrison, on his tour through
the South, after having seen the won
derful growth Of Lynchburg, Bedford
City, Roanoke, Salem, Radford, Pulaski,
Wytheyille and Abingdon and the indus
trial development in progress along the
line OF the Norfolk & Western Railroad,
and viewed the country of Southwest
Virginia, said in his speech to the people
of Bristol, Va:
"My Fellow Cifixens:-I have found not
only pleasure, but instruction in riding
to-day through tie portion of the State
of Virginia that is feeling in very strik-
ing way the impulse of new development.
1t is extremely gratifying to notice that
those hidden sources Of wealth which
were so long unobserved and so long I'M
used are now beins found. and that those
regions, once SO retired, occupied by pas
toral people, having difficult access to the
center Of population, are now being rapid
ly transformed into busy manufacturing
and commercial ccntcrs. In the early
settlement of this country cmiSrants
poured over the Alleghanies and Blue
Ridgetglike waters over an obstructinS
ledge, seeking the fertile and attractive
farm regions OF the great West. They
passed unobscrvcd these marvellous hid
den stores Of wealth which are now being
brought into use.
Having filled those great basins OF the
West they are now turning back to Vr-
gnia and West Virginia and Tennessee
to bring about the full development and
production for 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. The
iron point Of the wooden mold board pillow,
with which the early farmers here turned
the soil, came from distant States. But
now Virginia and Tennessee arc stirring
their energies to participate i'll large
degree in mechanical productions and in
the great awakening of American COM
lnerce and American influence which will
lift the nation to a place among the ma
tons Of the world never before attained.
"What is to hinder US when we have
secured the markets Of our own States
that We shall reach oHt and enter into
successful competition in the markets of
other parts Of the world: | say what is
to hinder this people; possessing by the
Providence of God, all the elements OF
material wealth; endowed with a genius
and energy unsurpassed among the ma
tons of the earth, shall again have on the
great seas merchant marine flying the
flag of the common country and carrying
lis commerce into every sea and uphold
ing its homer in every port?
Il am glad to-day to stand for this mo-
ment among you and to express my SYM
pathy with any and every interest that
tends to develop you us a people. l am
glad TO stand with you on one common
platform CT respect for the constitution;
differing as some OF US may do in our
opinions as to what the law should be and
how it should be applied; having in view
enc common devotion of obedience TO the
law as the majority of our people, by
their own representatives, make it.
Il Shall carry away from here a re-
ncwed impulse to public duty; II new i'll
spiration rs a citizen, and that too, of
country whose greatness is only dawning.
"And now let me express to you the
pleasure | shall have in every good that
can come to you as Il community and to
each ofyou as individuals. May peace,
prosperity and social order dwell in all
your families, and the fear and love of
God in every home.
CONE TO VrEclyA-Thc coming wool
growing; agricultural and iron producing
section Of thc United States.
Come via Merchants and Minors
From Boston S,eunls III. Line, via Norfolk, Penn
ana syivana L. H., via Norfolk, or Wash
New England, iug;on, OF Harrisburg; Baltimore 4
Ohio r. H., via Shenandoah Junction.
From :; l., Come via Old Dominion Steamship
y J. Lire, via Norfolk, rcnnSy vauia L.
& Penn. r., Ma Norfolk, Washington, ar
- Del. Harrisburg; Baltimore IL Ohio K. r.
- Nd. Via Shenandoah junction.
From tie Come via Pittsburgh, or via Chat
West (;aucoga, or via Columbus and Ashland
Fer all information, maps, reference
books. pamphlets, etc. descriptive Of the
wonderful mineral and agricultural re-
sources of the States Of Virginia and
West Virginia. apply TO Agents of the
Norfolk 4 Western railroad 300 Wash
ington, Street, Boston; 303 Broadway,
New York; 1873 Pennsylvania Avenue,
Washington, D. c.; 81 East, State Street,
Columbus, Ohio, or General Office,
Roanoke Va