Arizona silver belt., 1896-11-26
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 70, ,So6
SOME CAUSE FOR THANKFUL
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Thanksgiving, now at full hde, affords the opportunity of interiarding the day with conscious endeayor to conform to scriptural precedents. Some fear God and go to church, give attention to the sermon--a scriptural discourse, which has been likened ''to the skeleton of the sea, serpent, all back bone and great deal of that
 On the other hand, these religious festivals are by some given over to fddling, feasting and dancing, and 'tis with us in Globe as twas in Venice, "when prudery filings aside her letters, and gaity on restless tiptoe hovers. In Italy the festival is called the carnival, time of revelry which precedes q season of fasting and devotion. With us Thanksgiving had its introduction as day of acknowledgement to God for beneficeut harvest, at Plymouth, in "The New World" in 1921. by the Pilgrim fathers, whose observance of the day was religiously exact and strictly in conformity with the Puritan creed. It was an outpouring of thank fulness for the victory over satan, who had symbolized the conflict between God and himself by the introduction in the colonies of mildews. droughts. srmyworms and grasshoppers.
 Of late years in Arizona crops have been light and our thanksgiving to the Almighty correspondingly meagre, nut because our religious duties were for gotten, but because our time Was oc- cupied in rushing for grub.
 The experience of the past few years has, indeed, been discouraging, tspeci- ally so to stockmen, who witnessed the decimatjng O. their herds and fiocks hy starvation, which, very properly, they attribute to the negligence of Plavius, foreman of the heavenly rain gauge. The Eighteenth Arizona legislative assembly, being in rapport with the Almighty, called His attention to the dereliction of the sub in charge of the ceiesIlai water sofns. Seasou..4le rains were promised and the promise fulfilled. The gaping earth has been refreshed, and as consequence cattle have waxed fat, and kicked when the heel-Ay pursued.
 Grover Cleveland, at present resi- dent of Washington, D. C., has grown devout, and advises those who, like himself, with contrite hearts, shuuld on this 26th day Of November, 'furego their usual work and occupation and join together, approaching the throne of grace with pr.IsB and supplicati0u, and with one uccurd render thanks 10 the Ruler oi the universe" and at tine same time become dry nurse tu Eng. lands single gold standard and have Arizona adopt that to the exclusion of silver, with which our hills are surfted. That dope, Arizonians may freely range the azure fields of heaven; other wise they vtll figure from pulpit and rostrrm as anarchists, repudiStOrs, ad- yocates of silver com at ratio of l6 tO l with gold, the money adopted by George Washington and cOmpeers at the birth of our republic. And as thanks IS the order of tue day, regard Arizona on pended knee with thank fitness and not enOugh lip for utterance that the twin gold bugs, Cleveland and Carlisle, will. within one hundred days, go down to political death, and it is hoped entombed with their coadjutor, John Sherman. It IS highly improba- ble that neither of them will ever pre- sent himself at the celestial court for fear of a snub, such as Byron in his Vision of Judgment relates was accorded George III, whom satan recognized at the outward portal and cluil..ed him as his own.
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