The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-23
.oME SOUTH, YOUNG MAN2

GONE SOUTH. YOUNG MANs
President Harrison, on his tour through tho
South, after having seen tho wonderful.
growth of Lynchburg, Bedford City, Roanoke,
Salem. Radford, Pulaski, wythcvillc and Abng-
don and the Industrial development in progress
along tho line OF the Norfolk and Western
railroad, and Vowed the country of south
west Virginia, said in his speech to the people
at Bristol. Va
MY Fellow Citizens: have found notonly
pleasure, but instruction in riding to-day
through the portion OF tho State OF Virginia
that Is feeling In "a 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 unobserved and
so long unused arc nov being found and that
these regions, once so retired, occupied by pas
toral people, having difficult access to the GEN.
ter OF population, are now being rapidly trans
formcdinto busy manufacturing and CONNER
cial centers. In the early settlement of tP
country cmigrants poured over the Alcghares
and Blue Ridge like waters over an obst,ct-
ing ledge. seeking the fertile and attr,tve
farm regions of the great West. They assed
unobServcd these marvellous hidden sDrcs OF
wealth which arc now being brought no use.
Having filled those great basis of tho
West they are now turning back, Virginia
and West Virginia and Tennessee to bring
ABOUT the full development an, production
for which time is ripe and which ill surprise
the world. 1t has not been lont since every
implement OF iron, domestic. agricultural and
mechanical was made for you other States.
The iron pointof the wooden p)ld board plow,
with which the early farmcrsicrc turned the
SOIL came from distant State But now Nir-
ginia and Tennessee are stirrng their energies
productions and in the lsat awakening of
American commerce and .mcrican influence
which will lift the natio' to place among
the nations of the worl never before at
tanned.
what is to hinder lis rhcn we have secured
the markets OF our on states that we shall
reach out and enter iko successful compcti-
ton in the markets ofjthcr parts OF the world?
i say what is to hintr this people, possessing
by the providence oNiod, all the elements OF
material wealth: cflowcd with Il genius and
energy unsurpassc among the nations of the
earth, shall again ltvc on the great seas mcr.
chant marine flying the flag of the common
country and earring its commerce into every
sea and uphOldIr its honor In every port!
~ am glad today to stand for this moment
among you and to express my sympathy with
any and cvcrylntcrcst that tends to develop
you as Il pcopl. am glad to stand with you
on one common platform of respect for The
constitution: llfcring rs some of us may do in
orr opinions rs to what the law should be and
how it shoun he applied; having iii view one
common dc'otlon of obedience to the law as
the majority of our people, by their own repre-
scntativcs make it.
~ shallcarry away from here renewed i'm
pulse to public duty; new inspiration as a
citizen, md that, too, of country whose great
ness is enly dawniIig.
And now let me express to you the pleasure
I shall have in every good that can come to you
as community, and to each OF you rs indi-
vi,ras. May peace, prosperity and social
CIDER dwell in all your families, and the fear
andlovc OF God in every home"
COME TO VIRGINIA.
The Coming Wool Growing, Agricultural and
Iron Producing State i'm 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
SYLVANIA, DELAWARE, MARYLAND.
Come via Old Dominion Steamship Line, via
Norfolk; Pennsylvania ltailroad, via Norfolk,
or Washington, or Harrisburg: Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, via Shenandoah Junction.
FROM THE WEST.
Come via Pittsburg, or via Chattanooga, or
Win 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
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