The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-13
NOME SOUTH, YOUNG MANI

CoME SOUTH, YOUNG MANI
President Harrison, on his tour through the
South, after having soon tho wonderful
growth OF Lynchburg, Bedford city, Roanoke,
Salem, Radford, Pulaski, wythcvllle and Abing4
don and tho industrial development In progress
along the line OF the Norfolk and Western
railroad. and viewed tho country of south
west Virginia, said in his speech to tho 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 very striking way tho i'm
pulse of now development. 1t Is extremely
gratifying to notice that those hidden sources
OF wealth which wero 30 long unobserycd and
so long unused arc nov being found, and that
these regions, once so retired, occupied by pas
toral people, having difficult access to tho GEN.
ter OF population, arc now being RAPIDLY trans
formed into busy manufacturing and CONNER
cial ccnters. In the early settlement of this
country omigrants poured over the Allcghanies
and Blue Ridge like waters over an obstruct-
ing ledge. seeking tho fertile and attractive
farm regions of the great West They passed
unobscrvcd these marvellous hidden stores or
wealth which arc now being brought into use.
"lIaving filled those great basins of the
west, they are now turning back to Virginia
and West Virginia and Tennessee to bring
| about tho 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 Vir-
| to participate in IL large degree In mechanical
productions and in the Lrcat awakening OF
American commerce and American influence
which will lift the nation to place among
tho nations of the world never before Mt
tanned
What is to hinder us when we have secured
| the markets OF our own states TINT we shall
| reach out and enter into successful compcti-
ton in the markets of ether parts OF tho world?
! say what is to hinder this people, possessing
| by tho providence Of God, all the clements of
matcriul wealth: endowed with genius and
energy unsurpassed among tho nations of tho
earth, shall again have on tho great seas MGR
chnnt marine flying tho ling Of the common
country and carrying its commerce into every
| sea and unfolding its honor In every port?
81 am glad to-day to stand for this moment
among you and to express my sympathy with
any and every interest TINT tends to develop
| you us people. l am glad to stand with you
on one common platform of respect for the
constitutions diifcringn rs some OF us may do I'm
our opinions Us to what the law should be and
how ii should be applied; having in view one
| common devotion or obedience to the law as
the majority OF our people, by their own repre-
| scntativcs, make II.
II shall carry away from here removed i'm
pulse TO public duty; II new Inspiration as a
| citizen and that, too, OF a country whose great
4
ness is only dnwning.
! And now let me express to you the pleasure
] Shall have in every good that can come to you
rs IL 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 G. rowing, Agricultural and
| Iron Producing State in the United States.
FROM BOSTON AND NEW ENGLAND,
Come via Merchants and Miners Steamship
Line, via Norfolk Pennsylvania Railroad, via
! Norfolk. or Washington, or Harrisburg; Ialti-
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. 30 Washington street I,oston No. SOB