The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-15
GONE SOUTH, YOUNG MAN?

GONE SOUTH, YOUNG MAN9
President Harrison, on his tour through tho
South, after having seen the wonderful
growth Of Lynchburg, Bedford City, Roanoke,
Salem, Radford, Pulaski, w ythcville and Abing-
don and hcinlustral development in progress
along tho line or 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 II 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 uuobserved and
so long unused arc nov being found and that
these regions, once so retired, occupied by pas
tora people, having difficult access to the CEN
ter OF population, are now being rapidly trans
formed into busy manufacturing and CONNER
cial ccntcrs. In the early settlement of this
country emgrants poured over the AlIcghanes
and Blue Ridge like waters over an obstruct-
ing ledge. seeking the fertile and attractive
farm regions of the great West. They passed
unobscrvcd these marvellous hidden stores of
wealth which arc now being brought into use.
Having filled those great basins of the
West they now turning back to Virginia
AMI 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 or the wooden mold board pillow,
with which the carly farmers here turned the
soil, came from distant States. But now Viz
gina AMI Tennessee are stirring their energies
TO participate In large degree in mechanical
productions and in the Treat awakening OF
American commerce and American influence
which will lift the nation to place among
the nations of the world never before at
tanned.
"Whnt Is to hinder us when we have secured
the markets OF our own states that we shall
reach out and enter into successful compcti-
ton In the markets Of Cthcr 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 II genius and
energy unsurpassed among the nations of the
earth, shall again have on the great seas IL mer-
chant marine flying the flag of the common
country and carrying its commerce into every
sea and upholding its honor in every port?
II am glnd to-day to stand for this moment
among you and to express my sympathy with
any and every interest TINT tends to dcyclop
you us II people. nm glad to stand with YOU
on one common platform of respect for the
constitution; diMcringns some of us NAV do I'm
our opinions rs 10 what the law should he and
how 1t should he applied: having In view one
common devotion OF obedience to the law rs
the minority of our people, by their own repre-
scntativcs make it.
81 shall carry away from here renewed i'm
pulse to public duty; II new inspiration rs Il
citizen, and that, too, OF u 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 YOU
rs community and to each OF You rs indi-
Viduais. May peace, prosperity and social
order dwell in all your families ana 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 Harrsburg Halti-
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.