Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.-The president
mas issued the following Thanksgiving
proclamation:

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.-The president
mas issued the following Thanksgiving
proclamation:
of the people calls for the setting
apart of one day in each year as an occasion
of special thanksgiving to Almighty God for
the blessings of the preceding year. This
tender significance. 1t enricheS domestic
life. 1t summons under the family roof the
absent children to glad reunion with those
they love.
Seldom has this nation had greater cause
for profound thanksgiving. No great pes
thence has invaded our shores. Liberal
employment waits upon labor. Abundant
crops have rewarded the efforts of the hus-
bandman. Increased comforts have come
to the home. The national finances have
been strengthened, and public credit has
been sustained and made stronger. In all
branches of industry and trade there has
been an unequaled degree of prosperity,
while there has been steady gain in the
moral and educational growth of our ma
tiOnal character.
Churches and schools have fourished.
American patriotism has been exalted:
Those engaged in maintaining the honor OF
the flag with such signal success have been
in large degree spared from disaster ana
disease. An honorable peace has been rat
flied with foreign nation with which we
were at war, and we are now on friendly re-
latiOns with every power on earth.
THE trust which we have assumed Tor the
benefit of the people of Cuba has been faith
fully advanced. There is marked progress
toward the restoration of healthy industrial
conditions, and under wise sanitary regula-
tons the island has enjoyed unusual eX-
emption from the sCOurge of fever. The
hurricane which swept over our new pos
sessions of Porto Rico. destroying the homes
and property of the inhabitants, called
forth the instant sympathy of the people OF
the United States who were swift to respond
with generous aid to the sufferers. Whlle
the Instruction still continues in the island
of Luzon, business is resuming its activity,
and confidence in the good purposes OF the
United States is being rapidly established
throughout the archipelago.
For these reasons, and countless otners,
1, William Mckinley president of the
United States, do hereby name Thursday,
the Both day of November next, as 4 day OF
general thanksgiving and prayer, to be OBJ
served as such by all our people on this con-
tinent, and in our newly acquired islands,
as we'll as those who may be at sea or
sojourning in foreign lands; and 1 advise
that on this day religious exercises shall De
conducted in the churches or meeting places
of all denominations, in order that in the
social features of the day its real Signih-
canoe may not be lost sight of, but fervent
prayers may be offered to the Most High for
a continuance of the divine guidance with
out which mans efforts are vain, and for
divine consolation to those whose kindred
and friends have sacrificed their lives for
country.
Il recommend also that on this day, so far
as may be found practicable, labor shall
cease from its accustomed toll and charity
abound toward the sick, the needy and the
poor
I'm witness whereof have set my hand
and caused the seal of the United States to
be Affixed"
CIVILIAN MCKINLEY