Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-11-01
FIXES TIE DATE.
President cklnley Names Thursday
November 80. az Thanks
5$s5s giving Day.

Washington, Oct. 26.-The president
Wednesday issued the following
Thanksgiving proclamation:
"A national custom dear to the hearts
OF the people calls for the setting apart
or one day IN each year, as an occasion of
special thanksgiving, to Almighty God for
the blessings of the preceding year. This
honored observance acquires with time
a tenderer significance. 1t enriches domes-
tic life. It 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 rewarded the eff
forts of the husbandman. Increased COM
forts have come to the home. The ma
tional finances have been strengthened,
and public credit has been sustained and
made firmer. In all branches of industry
and trade there has been an unequaled de-
gree of prosperity, while there has been
steady gain in the moral and educational
growth of our national character.
"Churches and schools have flourished.
American patriotism has been exalted.
Those engaged in maintaining the honor
Of the flag with such signal success have
been in a large degree spared from dis
been ratified with a 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 san
ttary regulations the island has enjoyed
unusual exemption from the scourge of
fever. The hurricane which swept over
our new possession of Porto Rico, Destroy
ing the homes and property of the inhab-
ttants, 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
still continues in the island of Luzon, bust
ness is resuming it's activity and conf
dence in the good purposes of the United
States is being rapidly established
throughout the archipelago.
For these reasons, and countless others,
I, William Mckinley, president of the
United States, do hereby name Thursday,
the S0th 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 sojourning in foreign lands; and
I advise that on this day religious exer-
cises shall be conducted in the churches
Dr. meeting-places Of all denominations
In order that in the social features of the
day its real significance may not be lost
sight Of, but fervent prayers may be Of
fered to the Most High for continuance of
the Divine guidance without which mans
efforts are vain, and for Divine consola-
ton to those whose kindred and friends
have sacrificed their lives for country
II recommend also that on this day,
so far as may be found practicable, lab Dor
shall cease from it's accustomed toll and
charity abound toward the sick, the needy
| and the poor.
I'm witness whereof, I have set my hand
and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed
civilian M'KINLEY