The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-01

uiioDscrNcd these marvellous hidden stores OF
wealth which are now being brought into use.
Having 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 tho
soil, came from distant States. But now Vir-
ginia and Tennessee are stirring their energies
to participate in large degree in mechanical
productions and in the lrcat awakening OF
American commerce and American influence
which will lift the nation to a place among
the nations Of the world never before at-
tanned
What is TO hinder lis when we have secured
the markets OF our own states that we shall
reach out and enter into successful competi-
ton in the markets of ether parts OF the world?
say what is to hinder this people, possessing
by the providence OF God, all the clements of
material wealth; endowed with a genius and
energy unsurpassed among the nations of the
earth. shall again have on the great seas mcr-
chant marine flying the flag OF the common
country and carrying Its commerce into every
sea and upholding its honor in every port?
IL 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 as II people. ! am glad 10 stand with you
on one common platform of respect for the
constitution; differing rs some OF us may do i'm
our opinions rs TO what the law should he and
how 1t should he applied; having in view one
common devotion OF obedience to the law rs
the majority of our people, by their own repre-
scntativcs, make it.
Il shall carry away from here a renewed i'm
pulse 10 public duty; n new inspiration ms a
citizen, and that, too, of a country whose great
ness is only dawning.
And now let me express TO you the pleasure
| shall have in every good that can come to Won
rs Il community, and To- each of you as indi-
vi1uals. 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 Miners Steamship
Line, via Norfolk; Pennsylvania Railroad. via
Norfolk, or Washington, or Harrisburg; Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, via Shenandoah
JUHCtloU.
FROM NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, PENN
SfLVANIA, 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 PttSburg, or via CHATTANOOGA or
via Columbus and Ashland.
For all information, maps, reference books
pamphlets. etc, descriptive OF the wonderful
mineral AMI agricultural resources OF the
States OF Virginia and West Virginia. apply TO
agents of the Norfolk and Western Railroad.
No. 30 Washington street. Boston; No. 500
broadway. New York. No. l433 Pennsylvania
avenue. Washington. ID. c.; No. 81 East State
street, Columbus. Ohio, or General ONCE, Roa-
noke, Va. nayS:am