The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-11-02
THANK SEWING PROCLAMATION.
The President Appoints November
3oth as Thank sgivlng Day.

WAsHIvGTox, October 25.-The Presi
den. to-day issued the following Thanks
giving proclamation:
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES-A PROCLAMATION.
4 national custom dear to the hearts
of the people calls for the setting apart
OF one day in each year as all occasion
of special Thanksgiving to Almighty
God for the blessings Of the preceding
year.
This honored observance acquires
with time a tenderer significance. 1t
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 pestilence has invaded our shores.
Liberal employment waits upon labor.
Abundant crops have rewarded the ef-
forts OF the husbandman. Increased
comforts have come to the home The
national finances have been strength
ened and public credit has been sus-
tanned and made firmer. In all branches
of industry and trade there has been an
unequaled degree OF prosperity, while
there has been a steady gain in the.
moral and educational growth of our
national character. Churches and
schools have tiourished. American pa
triotism has been exalted.
Those engaged in maintaining the
honor of the flag with such signal sue
cess have been in large degree spared
from disaster and disgrace.
An honorable peace has been ratified
with q foreign nation with which we
were at war, and we are now on friendly
relations with every power on earth.
The trust which we have assumed for
the benefit of the people Of Cuba has
been faithfully advanced. There is
marked progress toward the restoration
of healthy Industrial conditions, and
under wise sanitary regulations the
Island has enjoyed unusual exemption
from the scOurge OF fever. The hurricane
which swept over our New possession OF
Porto Rico, destroying the homes aud
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.
While the instruction sill continues
in the Island Of Luzon, business is re-
Stunning its activity. and confidence in
the good purposes of the United States
Is beils2 IdpluiN estdDliHlltI throughout
| the archipelago.
For these reasons and countless
others, |. William Mckinley, President
| of the United States, do hereby name
| Thursday, the Both day of November
| next, as a day of general Thanksgiving
and prayer, to be observed as such br
| all our people on this continent and in
our newly acquired Islands, as well as by
| those who be at sea or Sojourning in
| foreign lands: and advise hat on this day
| religious exercises shall be conducted in
the churches or meeting places of all
! denominations, in order that in the
social features of the day it's real signifi-
canoe may not be lost sight of. but
fprvent prayers may be offered to the
| Most High for a continuance of the
Divine guidance without which man =
efforts are vain and for Divine consoa-
| ton to those whose kindred and friends
| have sacrificed their lives for thecouitrv
! | recommend also that on this day,
SO far as may be found practical. labor
shall cease from its accustomed toll, and
| charity abound toward the sick, the
needy and the poor.
In witness whereof, have set my hand
and caused the seal of the United States
| to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this
| 25th day of October, in the year of our
| Lord 1899. and of the Independence of
| the United States the One Hundred and
| Twenty-fOurth.
| WILLIAM M'KINLEY.
By the President:
| JOHN HAY,
Secretary of State.