The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-02-11

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q INCIDENTALLY GIVES WEST
VIRGINIA A'dREAT SEND OFF.
At the South and West Congress now
In session at Tampa. Florida, Governor
Atkinson on Wednesday delivered the
= following address:
Mr.. President and Fellow citlzens:--I
\ was Informed last fall at Nashville.
during TINT successful exposition OF
southern wealth and southern enter,
& price. shat more than two million nd-
dit!onaI spIndles had been s.arted in
the south during the preceding twelve
I. months. This, TO me. was extremely
gratifying information. am glad
that the people OF OH. southland have,
inideaa earnest, gone into the business
Z OF twistlng something. a people that
z twists Is people that thrIvrs. A mdn
must twist everything he can get his
hands on, in order to rise above tho
average OF his fellow man: mud this Is
= etuN VI Is community ~ NrI. Nc VI
4 the south are behind our northern
neighbors, mainly because, for genera
I tons, VIC "toilcd not, neither did we
spin" All hail, my brcthren We have
thrown of that ietharay and are on the
high-tide of Industrial, physical and III
4 tellectual development In the active
business shuttle of to-day, We are talk,
ing mighty hand. The spirit OF true
enterprise has fully come upon US, and
( am firmly persuaded thatrit has come
to stay.
~ 1t cannot be successfully conlcovert-
ed. Mr.. Chairman, tina. we have within
the southern states the necessary ele-
ments to cause several, II not all. TO be-
come manufacturing centres. We have
natural advantages unequaled, and
certainly not surpassed by any other
portion of the great republic; and am
delighted over the fact, that Our own
people are now engaged In the. laudab!c
undertaking OF working UP our own
raw materials into finished. products,
4 upon our own soil by our own skilled
labor. This, mY countrymen, is IN I'M
erring road to success. Thanks to our
selves, we are succeeding now. In
deed, we have already succeeded, and
we are only in the dawn Of what we
are YET u pe. ar -A ft = 4. d
"a With harbors unsurpassed. ships
should be loading every hour In these
ports, carrying our products across the
high seas to other lands less favored
than our own With our practically In
exhaustible forests of timber, we can
furnish boards enough 10 fence In the
universe and have supply left sufli-
cient to lay board walk to the SNOW
bound regions OF the Klondike. With
our Goals In most of these states. We
can heat the enrth hotter than the
Hebrew .sfiery furnace" or Z Shadrach,
Mechach and Abednego, and have sur
plus enough to furnish steam for all
the shlps on all the, seas. With our
natural gas We can, II Il were coucen-
trated. make Pluto ashamed OF his
boosted dominion. and cause him to
flee to the mountains of West Virginia
81 In search of the COOL balny breeZes
~ which can onls be found In that
charming Switzerland OF America. With
our crude petroleum we can. X we
want. grease every axle and cog and
wheel and pinion In this and all lands,
( and at the same time OF! the hinges of
every stump-o.ator's jaw from Florida
Keys 10 the North Pole, and have
enough left over, when properly refin-
ed. TO light up all the dark places on
. terra firrna like the aurora boreal;s
) With our. cotton and Our tobacco ana
: our rice and our sugar and our semi
z tropical fruits. what may We mot eS-
pect. when every strong. .broad-shoul-
dered southern man has his back
against the wagon and is pushing all
he can? ~
But, Mr.. Chairman, what OF the
west? And I am glad that that once.
great wilderness. which Is now bios
soming as the rose, is strongly repre-
sentsd here to-day. The possibilities
OF that wonderful stretch OF our ma
tional domain can scarcely be estlma-
ted. Two or three Of those massive
prairie states alone can produce q suf-l
Fl ficicncy OF wheat and corn every scar
to feed the American people. lndepend.
emily OF that vast proportion OF these
+ products which pass through the
worms Of !istillcries and dowa The,
tllroats OF the mu!t.tudes Of the fire
water" suckers % the land. What We
need for q large part OF our western
" plOuuSis Is ~ .CTSiSn ndrkcI, anu what
better points 10" loading 1t on sailing
. vessels and ocean steamers can be
found than these along the gulf coasts:
x The west, like the old valley of the
s Mic 10 the ancicnts, Is the granary OF
this continent, and why should these
: PRODUCTS be. shipped east and north In
stead OF southwark? We are here TO-
Z d.: to bid for q portion OF the shipping
OF the western and middle states. AMI
for the big end OF ali the products OF
every state south of the Ohio. When
& we look upon these magnificent har.
hos, extending from Norfolk and New.
n port News, down the Atlantic coast,and
oil along the sulf OF Mexico, VIC wonder
IS that We have not hitherto secured pruc-
t!call% all OF the shipping OF the south
ana the west. 1t Is enough for lis 10
know that thus FAR we have only re-
4 cf!yed bnt 4 small rorsion of this traf-
nc, and we are here to-day. In this
business congress. to find out wig 1t il,
and TO ascertain Il It Is not possible 10
4 get on the right track TO-. the future. It
& seems to me, my friends, that. our trade
K with Central and South America
"a should, In the near future. he Very
much greater than It now Is: and ali
this traffic must OF necessity pass
through the ports along the gulf The
Avoid An Early Grave.
How often do VIC hear, that Lhc ave.
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