The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-09
GONE SOUTH. YOUNG MANp

GONE SOUTH. YOUNG MANa
President Harrison, on his tour through the
South, after having seen the wonderful.
growth Of Lynchburg, Bedford City, Roanoke
Salem, Radford, Pulaski wythcville 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: l 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 tho i'm
pulse Of now development. 1t is extremely
gratifying to notice that those hidden sources
of wealth which were so long unobseryed 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 CEN
ter OF population, are now being rapidly Trans
formed into busy manufacturing and CONNER
cial centors. In tho early settlement of this
country cmigrants poured over the Alloghanies
and Blue Ridge like waters over an obstruct-
ing lodge. seeking the fertile and attractive
farm regions of the great West. They passed
unobscrved these marvellous hidden stores OF
wealth which are now being brought into use
Having filled those great busns of the
West, they are 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 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 early farmers here turned the
SOIL came from distant States. But now vir-
GINA ana Tennessee are stirring their energies
10 participate In IL large degree I'm mechanical
productions and In the great awakening of
American commerce and American influence
which will lift the nation to place among
the nations of the world never before ut
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 compcti-
ton In the markets of other 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 genius and
energy unsurpassed among the nations of the
earth shall again have on the great sens n mcr-
chant marine flying tho flag of the common
country and carrying its commerce into every
sea and UNFOLDING its honor in every port?
II 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 Il people. l am glad to stand with you
on one common platform of respect for the
constitution; differing as some OF us may do in
our opinions as to what the law should be and
how it should DO applied; having in view ono
common devotion OF obedience to the law as
the majority OF our people, by their own repro
scntativcs, make 1t.
II shall carry away from here renewed i'm
pulse to public duty; n new inspiration rs
citizen, and that, too, OF 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
us community, and to each OF you MS indi-
viduals. May peace, prosperity and social
order dwell in all your families, and tho 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,
Como via Merchants and Miners Steamship
Line, via Norfolk; Pennsylvania Railroad, via
Norfolk, or Washington or Harrisburg; Daltl-
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. 200 Washington street. Boston; No. 800
Broadway, New York; No. 1888 Pennsylvania
avenue, Washington ID. c.; NO. 81 East State
street, Columbus, Ohio, or General Office Roa-
noke. Va. mayhem
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