Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-26
President Mckinley Has Set
Apart a Day.
THE LAST OF NOVEMBER
Will be a General Holiday Throughout
the Country Many Blessings That
Have Come to This Country to be
Thankful For.

Washington. Oct. 25.-The president to-
day issued the following proclamation:
"A national custom lear 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
honored observance acquires with time
a tenderer significance 1t enriches do
mestlc life. 1t summons under the FAM
lily roof the absent children to attend
a 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 h~usbandnan. Increased COM
forts have come to the home. The ma
ional finances have been strengthened
and public credit has been sustained and
made firmer. In all branches of indus
try and trade there has been an I'M
equalled degree OF prosperity while there
has been a steady gain in the moral and
educational growth Of our national char
acter. Churches and schools have flour
i'iSu' al'ie tCui patriotism mas teel
exalted. Those engaged in maintaining
the honor of the flag with such signal
successes have been in a large degree
spared from disaster and disease. An
honorable peace has been ratified with Il
foreign nation with which We We're al
war and we are now at friendly relations
with every power on earth.
THE trust which we have assumed fol
the benefit of the people of cuba mas
faithfully advanced. There is marked
progress toward the restoration .!
healthy Industrial conditions and unde,
wise sanitary regulations the island has
enjoyed unusua exemption from The
scourge of fever. The hurricane which
Rico, destroying the homes and propert,
of the inhabitants, called forth the III
slant sympathy of the people of the Unit
ed States who We're swift to respond witt
the generous aid to the sufferers. Whil-
the insurrection still continues in Thu
island of LuZon, business is esumins
it sactiyity, and confidence in the gooy
purposes of the United States is bein'
rapidly established throughout the arch
ipelago.
For these reasons and countless other
|, William Mckinley. president of til,
United States, do hereby name Thurs
day, the thirtieth day of November next
as Il daN or general thanksgiving an
prayer, to be observed as such by al
our people OF this continent and in ou
newly acquired islands as we'll as thos
who may be at sea or soiourning in for
eign lands, and | advise that on this da,
religious exercises shall be conducted il
the churches Or meeting places of all tn
|, denominations in order that in the socia
; features Of the day its real significanc
may not be lost sight of. but feryen
, prayers nay be offered to the Most Higl
) for a continuance of the divine guidanc
without which mans efforts are vain
and for divine consolation to those who's
) kindred and friends have sacrificed thei
|, lives for cur country.
Il recommend also hat on this day s
far as ma be found practicable, labo
shall cease from its accustomed toll an,
charity abound toward the sick. 1ead
and the poor.
I'm witness whereof. I have set m,
hand and caused the great seal of tn
United States To be affixed.
"~tSigned> WILLIAM MCKINLEY"