The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-10-21

THE PRODUCTIVE SOUTH.
The south has always been the most
productive portion OF the republic. Its
great natural resources-its coal, its
iron, its timber, its cotton, its tobacco,
It's sugar, its rice and It's fruits cannot
be equalled In the states OF the north.
We of the south, for generations, have
furnished the larger part OF the neces-
sary raw materials for our brethren in
the north to manufacture into fin
ished products, This made them rich,
while We kept on being poor. These
later years We have started out to work
up our own raw materials, on our own
soil, thus giving employment to our own
people and keeping our money at home.
Under this common sense policy the
south is growing rich, and under II she
will keep on developing. Tennessee,
one OF the years, and not In the fnr dis
tant future, either, VIII be one OF the
leading manufacturing states in the
Union.
West Virginia is here to-day TO wish
Tennessee God-speed in all her under
taklngs. Tennessee has all. or nearly
all, the raw materials that the world
needs in its business. All you need
down here Is to 80 on developing It
Go on, my friends. in your wise policy of
working these materials into finished
fabrics, and there can be no question us
TO your future.
WHAT WEST VIRGINIA is DOING.
But, Mr.. Chairman, this is West Vir-
ginla day on these magnificent eHposi-
tion grounds. We are here to inform
you that we have a great state Just
,,A 70 90 nd tbaf tFfn q "a
opening 1t up at mighty rate. We are
in the business Of doing something our
selves. We aren't by any menas lying
supinely on our backs up yonder In our
West Virginia hills. We are digging
coal at a mighty rate. The familiar
clicks of the miners picks are heard
in many OF our mountain sides as they
bring forth the dusky diamonds which
bring millions of dollars within our bor-
ders every year. The hum OF our mill
saw lulls our mountaineers TO sleep,
and awakes them from their slumbers
at the dawnlng OF the morn. The der
riclks in our oil fields are almost as thick
as the warts on the heads OF your Ten
nessee frogs. We are pumping oil in
sufficient quantities out OF our West
Virginia hills to grease all the axles on
earth, and have enough left TO lubricate
the North Pole, and every politicians
jaw from Maine to California, and our
people aren't "Greasers" like those we
fnd in Mexico, either. Moreover, we
have most everything else up there, In
Guiding the best people beneath the
stars, Tennesseeans alone excepted.
Ny friends, this exposition Will prove
TO be OF inestlmable value to Tennessee
and to the entire south. These exhibits
show variety and Yastness Of re-
sources which were not hitherto known
to the world at large. For generations
you have been producing very consid-
erable portion OF raw cotton for all the
nation. While you have not dropped
back any in your production OF cotton,
You are branching out in other indus
tries, which will likewise prove profit
able. Nothing develops q state or n
country so rapidly as the dlversifcation
OF its industries. ] am glad to know
that the south is taking hand in most
every sort of business. All hail Ten
nessee and Alabama and Georgia and
West Virginia and all the states OF the
Southland. Hold your eyes steadily to
the front; keep abreast OF the times as
you are now doing, and your greatness
and wealth will some day shine forth
like the splendor Of the sun.
PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH.
The South. like many other sections Of
any and all countries, las Its IDEAS and
its pecullarities and its idiosyncracies;
but withal, the civilized world can
boast OF no better, nobler, truer people
than the inhabitants of our Southland.
Lovers OF liberty and freedom in all
things. Won have never been unmindful
OF others, and have given your friendly
aid to all classes and all sections to bet
Ter their condition, and thus make our
entire country broader and nobler and
richer and grander. You have been an
Irresistible force during all the years OF
our national life in the development
and upbuildlng OF the nation, and your
impress upon the nation has been most
powerful and potent, from the days OF
Washington down TO Mckinley. The
south is a mighty country, and her
people are a mighty people. AS n Vlr-
rlnian myself, / can greet you as one
who loves you, and shares your feelings
and your thoughts. can say in all
candor that you are loyal TO your coun-
try. her constitution and her fiaG, and
that in your heart Of hearts your influ-
ence shall be forever and unfailing for
liberty and justice, and for peace
among men. ,.,-,.
Again, / say, West Virginia greets
YOU and thanks you and honors YOU to-
day. ,rn.,,
was next introduced. When Senator
Thompson urose to introduce Colonel
Hearnc. he said;
IF west Virginia has produced such
speaker as the governor In thirty
five years. what viii she have done oy
the time she is as old as TennesseeG'
OTHER SPEECHES.