The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-06
CoME SOUTH, YOUNG MANI

GONE SOUTH, YOUNG MANI
President Harrison, on his tour through tho
South after having soon the wonderful
growth of Lynchburg Bedford City, Roanoke.
Salem, Radford, Pulaski. wythcvilc and Abing-
don and tho industrial development in progress
along the line OF tho Norfolk and Western
railroad, and viewed tho country of south
west Virginia, said In his speech to the people
at Bristol. Va.
MY Follow 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 tho i'm
pulse of new development. 1t is extremely
gratifying to notice that those hidden sources
OF wealth which wero so long unobseryod and
so long unused arc nov being found, and that
these regions, once so retired, occupied by pas
torai people, having difficult access to the CEN
ter of population, are now being rapidly trans
formed into busy manufacturing and commcr-i
cial ccnters. In the early settlement of this
country cmigrants poured over the Alloghanies
and Blue Ridge like waters over an obstruct-
ing ledge. seeking tho fertile and attractive
farm regions of the great West They passed
unobservcd these marvellous hidden stores Of
wealth which are now being brought into usc
Having filled those great basins of tho
Wost, they arc now turning bnck to Virginia
and 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 OF the wooden mold board pillow.
with which the carly farmers here turned tho
soil, came from distant States. But now Vir-
ginia and Tennessee arc stirring their energies
to participate In large degree In mechanical
productions and in tho Areat awakening of
American commerce and American influence
which will lift the nation to place among
the nations of tho world never before at
tanned.
what Is to hinder us when we have secured
the markets OF our own states that wo shall
reach out and enter into successful competi-
ton In the markets OF other parts OF the wOrld2
| IN infln fI,iS
by the providence OF God, all tho clements of
material wealth; endowed with genius and
energy unsurpassed among tho nations of tho
earth, shall again have on the great seas mcr-
chant marine flying the flag Of tho common
country and carrying Its commerce into every
sea and upholding its honor in every port?
81 am glad today to stand for this moment
among you and to express my sympathy with
any and every interest that tends to develop
you as people. um glad to stand with you
on one common platform OF respect for the
constitutions ditfcringu as some OF us may do in
our opinions rs to what the law should be and
how it should be applied; having In view ono
common devotion OF obedience to the law as
the majority OF our people, by their own repre-
ScntutivcS, make IL.
~ shall carry away from here renewed i'm
pulse to public duty; now inspiration as a
citizen, and that, too, OF a country whose great
Hess Is only uuWHinE.
And now let me express to you the pleasure
shall have In every good that can come to you
as Il community, and to each OF you us indi-
vlduals. May peace, prosperity and social
order dwell In Ill your families, and the fear
and love of God in every home"
COME TO VIRGINIA.
Tho 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; Bnlti-
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.
Como via Pittsburg, or via Chattanooga, or
via Columbus and Ashland.
For all information, maps reference books,
pamphlets. etc., descriptive OF the wonderful
mineral AMI agricultural resources Of tho
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