The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-14
NOME SOUTH, YOUNG MANa

4 OMb oOOIH, 1OUNd NAM
President Harrison. on his tour through tho
South. after having socn the wonderful.
growth of Lynchburg, Bedford City, Roanoke,
Salem, Radford, Pulaski. wythcv!lic 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, sud 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
TINT is feeling in very striking way the i'm
pulse of new development. 1t is extremely
gratifying to notice that those hidden sources
of wealth which were SO long unobscrvcd and
so long unused are nov being found. and that
these regions, once so retired, occupied by DIS
toral people, having difficult access to the con-
ter Of population, are now being rnpidlv trans
formed into busy manufacturing and CONNER
cial ccnters. In the early settlement of this
country emigrants poured over the Allcyhnnics
and Blue Ridge like waters over an obstruct-
inr ls1,r. a..
furln regions of the great West. They passed
unobscrvcd these marvellous hidden stores Of
wealth which are now being brought into use
"llaving filed those great basins of the
nnd West Virginia and Tennessee to bring
about the full development and production
FOR which time is ripe and which will surprise
the world. Ii 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 carly farmers here turned the
soil, came from distant States. But now vir-
gina and Tennessee arc stirring their energies
to participate ina large degree in mechanical
productions and In the krcut awakening or
American commerce and American influence
which VIII HIT the nation to Il place among
the nations of the world never before at
tanned.
what is to hinder us when we have secured
inc markets OF our own states that shall
reach out and enter into successful conipcti-
ton i'm 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 Il genius ard
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 uphodng It's honor in every port:
II nn 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 Il people. am gluI To stand with YOU
on one common platform OF respect for The
constitution; differing rs some OF us may do in
our opinions rs to what the law should he and
how it should be applied; having in view one
common devotion OF obedience to the law as.
the majority Of our people, by their own repre-
scntutivcs. make il.
Il shall carry away from here a renewed i'm
pulse to public duty; II new inspiration as
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 good that can come to you
rs II community, and to each OF you as indi-
viduals. 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 Woodworking. 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
Junction.
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 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
No. 2'0 Washington street. Boston; No. 3G3
broadway. New York; No. 1873 PENNSYLVANIA