The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-11
CoME SOUTH, YOUNG MANa

GONE SOUTH, YOUNG MANa
President Harrison, on his tour through the
South, after having seen the wonderf,
growth of Lynchburg, Bedford City, Roanoke.
Salem, Radford, Pulaski, wytheville 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: 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
gratifying to notice that those hidden sources
of wealth which were SO long unobserved and
80 long unused are now being found. and that
these regions, once so retired, occupied by pas
toral people, having difficult access to the CEN
ter OF population, are now being rapidly trans
formed into busy manufacturing and CONNER
cial ccnters. In the carly settlement of this
country emigrants poured over the Alieghanies
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 are now being brought into use.
having hllcd those great basins or tho
west, they are now turning back to Virginia
and West Virginia and Tennessee to bring
ABOUT tho full development and production
Tor 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.
| Inc iron point of the wooden mold board plow
win which the carly farmers here turned tho
| SOIL came from distant States. But now Vir-
| ginia ana Tennessee are stirring their energies
| to participate in large degree in mechanical
productions and in the kreat awakening OF
american commerce and American influence
which will lift tho nation to place among
| the nations OF tho world never before Mt
| taincd
| What is to hinder us when we have secured
| the markets OF our own states that we shall
reach out and enter into successful competf-
ton in the markets Of other parts OF the worlda
say what Is to hinder this people, possessing
| by the providence of God, all tho clements OF
| material wealth; endowed with genius and
energy unsurpassed among tho nations of the
| earth. shall again have on the great seas a mer-
chant marine flying the flag OF the common
country and carrying its commerce into every
sea and upholding its honor in G, cry port?
II ain glad to-day to stand for this moment
among you and to express my sympathy with
any and every interest that tends to dovclop
| you rs people. l am glad to stand with YOU
| on ono common platform of respect for tho
| constitution; differing us some OF us may do in
our opinions rs to what the law should be and
how 1t should be applied; having in view ono
| common devotion OF obedience to the law as
the majority OF our people, by their own repre-
ScntativcS, make Ii.
| Il shall carry away from here n renewed i'm
| pulse to public duty; u new inspiration as
| citizen and that, too, OF a 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 Won
! as community, and to each OF you as indi-
| ViduaS 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 Wool Growing. Agricultural and
Iron Producing State in the United States
FROM BOSTON AND NEW ENGLAND.
Come via Merchants and Minors Steamship
Line, via Norfolk; Pennsylvania Railroad via
| Norfolk, or w ashington, or Harrisburg; Balt,-
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 ana
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 wonderfuI
| mineral and agricultural resources of the,
States OF Virginia and West Virginia, apply to
! agents OF the Norfolk and Western Railroad
No. 2N Washington street. Boston; No. 500
broadway, New York; No lt;s3 Pennsylvania
avenue Washington, d. c.: No. 81 East State
| street, Columbus, Ohio, or General Office, Roa-