The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-19
SOUTH, YOUNG MANI

COME SOUTH, YOUNG MANa
President Harrison, on his tour through tho
| South, after having seen tho wonderful.
growth of Lynchburg, Bedford City, Roanoke,
Salem, Radford, Pulaski, wythcvillo and Abing-
| don and the industrial development in 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: l 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 the i'm
pulse of new development. 1t Is extremely
gratifying to notice that those hidden sources
OIL wealth which were so long unobscrved and
so long unused are now being found and that
these regions, once so retired, occupied by pas
toral people, having difficult access to tho GEN.
tor of population, arc now being rapidly trans
formed into busy manufacturing and CONNER
cial ccntcrs. In the early settlement of this
country cmigrants poured over the Alicghanies
and Blue Ridge like waters over an obstruct-
ing ledge. seeking the fertile and attractive
farm regions Of the great West. They passed
unObservcd these marvellous hidden stores of
wealth which are being Drought into USE
Having filled those great basins of tho
West, they now turning back to Virginia
ana 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 i'm other States.
Inc IRON pointoi the wooden mold board plow,
with which the early farmers here turned tho
soil, came from distant States. But now Vir-
gina and Tennessee are stirring their energies
to participate in Il large degree in mechanical
PRODUCTIONS anu Ill the trcut awakening OF
American commerce and American influence
which will lift the nation to place among
the nations OF the world never before at
tanned
what is to hinder us when we have secured
the markets OF our own states that we shall
reach out and enter into successful cornpcti-
ton in the markets of other parts OF the world?
| say whit is to hinder this people, possessing
by tho providence Of God, MI 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 a mcr-
chant marine flying the ilug of the common
country and carrying its commerce into every
sea and upholding its honor in every port?
~ am glad to-day to stand for this moment
among you and to express my sympathy with
any AMI every interest that tends to dcvclop
you rs Il people. | am glad TO stand with you
on one common platform of respect for the
constitution; dincringns some Of us may do in
our opinions rs to whit the law should be and
how it should bc applied; having in view one
common devotion OF obedience to the law rs
the majority OF our people, by their own repre-
scntatvcS, make il.
IL shall carry away from here renewed i'm
pulse to public duty; IL new inspiration ms a
citizen, and that, too Of Il country whose great
ness is only dawning.
And now let me express To you the pleasure
shall have in every )od that Gun come to you
! ms II community, and to each OF you as inli-
Viduals. May peace, prosperity und 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; Baltl-
more and Ohio Railroad, via Shenandoah
| Junction.
| FROM NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, PENN
| SfLVANIA, DELAWARE, MARYLAND.
| Come via Old Dominion Steamship Line. vim
| Norfolk; Pennsylvania Railroad, via Norfolk,
| or Washington or Harrisburg; Baltimore and
ohio iiailroad, via Shenandoah Junction.
FROM THE WEST.
| Come via Pittsburg, or via CHATTANOOGA. or
| via Columbus and Ashland
For all information, maps, reference books,
I 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.
J No. 2.N Washington street. Boston; No :,(,