The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-26
President Mckinley Names Thurs
day the 3oth Of November.
CAUSE FOR GRATITUDE
TELLS OF BLESSINGS sHoWERED
UPON THE PEOPLE.
Year Of Great Prosperity; Employ
ment Waits On Labor; Abundant
Crops and Increased Comforts For
the Home-Speaks of the War
With Spain and In Philippines.

Washington. Oct. 25.-The president
today issued the following proclama-
ton:
"A national custom dear to the hearts
OF the people calls for the setting apart
Of one day in each year for special
thanksgiving to Almighty God for the
blessings Of the preceding year. This
nonored observance acquires with time
tendeFer significance. 1T emriches
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 peStilence has invaded our
SHORES. Liberal employment waits
upon labor. Abundant crops have re-
Warded the efforts of the husbandman.
increased comforts have come to the
nome. The national finances have been
strengthened and public credit has been
sustained and made firmer. In all
branches of industry and trade there
has been an unequaIed degree of pres
perlty, while there has been a steady
gain in the moral and educational
growth OF our national character.
American Patriotism Exalted.
Churches and schools have flour
lshed. American patriotism has been
exalted. Those engaged i'm maintaining
the honor of the flag with such signal
success have been in a large degree
spared from disaster and disease. An
honorable peace has been ratified with
a foreign nation with which we were at
war, and we are now at friendly reia-
tfons with every power ON earth
The trust which we have assumed
Tor the benefit of the people of Cuba
has faithfully advanced. There is
marked progress toward the rest0ra-
ton of healthy industrial conditions,
and under wise sanitary regulations
the island has enjoyed unusual exemp-
ton from the seourge of fveer.
The hurricane which swept over our
new possession of Porto Rico, destroy
ing the homes and property of the in
habitants. called forth the instant SYM
pathy of the people of the United
States, who We're swift to respond with
generous aid to the sufferers.
While the insurrection still continues
in the island of Luzon. business is re-
Stunning its activity. and confidence in
the good purposes of the United States
is being rapidly established through
out the archipelago.
Names November 80.
For these reasons and countless
olHtISt l., WllN&In mckinley, president
Of the United States, do hereby name
Thursday, the goth day of November
next, as a day of general thanksgiving
and prayer, to be observed as such by
all our people on this continent, and in
our newly acquired islands, as we'll as
by those who may be at sea or sojourn-
ing in foreign lands, and 1 adviseNthat
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 significance may not be lost |
sight of, but fervent prayers may be |
offered to the Most High for a contin- |
nance of the divine guidance. without !
which mans efforts are vain. and for |
Irvine consolation to those whose kin
lred and friends have sacrificed their |
ives for our country.
L recommend also that on this day. /
80 far as may be found practicable, /
abor shall cease from it's accustomed /
oil and charity abound toward the /
iick, the needy and the poor.
I'm witness whereof, I have set my
land and caused the seal of the United
states to be affixed.
WILLIAM MKINLEY."