The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-26
NOME SOUTH, YOUNG. MAN2

CONE SOUTH, YOUNG MAN9
President Harrison, on his tour through the
South, after having seen tho wonderful
growth of Lynchburg, Bedford City, Roanoke,
Salem, Radford, Pulaski, w ythe lie and Abng-
don and the industrial development In progress
along the line OF tho 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 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 unobservcd and
so long unused are now 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-
formed into busy manufacturing and CONNER
cial ccntcrs. In the early settlement of this
country cmigrants poured over the Allcghanies
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 are now turning back to Virginia
and West Virginia AMI Tennessee TO brinu
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 of the wooden mold board plow.
with which the early farmers here turned the
soil. came from distant States. But now Vir-
Einn and Tennessee are stirring their energies
10 participate In large degree i'll mechanical
productions and In the krcat awakening OF
American commerce and American influence
which will lift the nation to Il 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 competi-
ton in the markets of other parts Of the worldr
] say what is to hinder this people, possessing
by the providence OF God ull the clements of
material wealth; endowed with n genius and
energy unsurpassed among the nations of the
earth, shall again have on the great seas mer-
chant marine flying the flag of the common
country and carrying its commerce into every
sen and upholding its honor in every port2
81 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 people. / am glad to stand with YOU
on one common platform OF respect for the
constitution; dilIcrngas some of us mag do in
our opinions as to what the Law should he and
how it should he applied; having in view one
common devotion of obedience TO the law rs
the majority OF our people, by their own repre-
scntatives, make il.
Il shall carry away from here a renewed i'm
pulse 10 public duty; II new inspiration as a
citizen, and that, too, of Il country whose great
ness is only dawniug.
Anu HOW lcl me express 10 you the pleasure
shall have in every good that can come to you
rs community, and to each Of you as ind-
vduas. May peace, prosperity and social
order dwell in all your families, and the fear
and love of God in every homc.'
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; I,nlt-
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 Rairoad, via Shenandoah junction.
FROM THE WEST.
Come via Pttsburg, via Chattanooga, or
via Columbus and Ashland.
For all information. maps, reference hooks,
pamphlets. etc, descriptive of the wonderful
mineral and agricultural resources of the
States OF Virginia and West Virginia, apply to