The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-04
unobscrvcd these marvellous hidden stores OF

unobservcd these marvellous hidden stores OF
wealth which are now being brought into use.
Having filled those great basins OF the
West, they arc now turning back 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 boon 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 tho early farmers here turned the
soil, came from distant States. hut now Vir-
Eina and Tennessee are stirring their energies
to participate in large degree in mechanical
productions and i'll the great awakening OF
American commerce and American influence
which will lift the nation to IL place among
the nations of the world never before Mt
taihcd.
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 i'll 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 II genius and
energy unsurpassed among the nations of the
earth, shall again have on tho great seas n NOR
chant marine flying the flag of the common
country and carrying its commerce into cvcry
sea and upholdlng its honor In every port?
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 dovelop
you rs people. l am glad to stand with YOU
on ono common platform of respect for the
constitutions diffcringa as some OF us may do I'm
our opinions Us to what tho law should be and
how it should be applied; having in view one
common devotion OF obedience to the law as
tho majority of our people, by their own repre-
scntativcs, make 1t.
II shall carry away from here removed i'm
pulse to public duty; new inspiration as n
citizen and that, too, OF a country whose great
moss is only dawning.
And now let me express to you the pleasure
shall have in every good that can come to you
as community, and to each OF you as indi-
Viduais. 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 tho 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-
moro 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.
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. 20 Washington street. Boston; No. SIS
| Broadway. New York; No. A33 Pennsylvania
avenue, Washington, d. c. No. e. East State
| street, Columbus, Ohio, or General Onicc, Roa
| move. Va. may3:2is