The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-11-27
JUST ABOUT THANKSGIVING.

ETHE WINTER HAD BEEN BLEAK, It's winds had
pierced the marrow and frozen the blood In the
little cemetery the rows of graves grew ever
LONGER under their blankets of snow. 1t was drcaf
time that winter far, far from the home land; and
the waiting was long and bitter Then came the breath
of sprag loosenng the frost-bound county cheering
the worn and the weary. Up came the grass and inc
flowers back from their southern retreats came tho
birds
II was SEED time but none could say how bouu-
teous might be the harvest Yet truly the land was talr
to look upon So the seeds were sown, and with such
courage as martyrs are made of. the results were
awaited. Summer drew Brightly the sun beat down
upon the newly broken field but brighter than ITS rays
were the prospects of she sewers. 1t was autumn at last
and I'm the first crisp GOODNESS, that presasad another
winter they gathered an huudred-fod
Was Their, reason for the thaakfunc57 that ~urgcd
In the hearts af those Pilgrim Fathers 2sU years ago
He Is misanthropt indeed who can affirm the con
trary They had fought tho wilderness hand To- hand;
good hyh bad they fought aud they they de
served to win. So old Governor Bradford IN has funny
little knee brcechcs and bis hair tied with ribbon III
tie back in his shoes with The great sve" buckles
but with brave. true heart mder his rntled SHIRT
called a day of thanksgiving and prayer.
Therc are those who say Thanksgiving, the onlT
holiday on the calendar that Sunday cannot rob the
worker OF. did not originate with Governor Bradford
and his Pilgrim band. They say the day observed
bv he ancient Hebrews harvest time, end America
can lay uo claim 30 it. Away with such cod-blooded
creatures They shall not take from of the
preics pictures that history pants OF our torbcaTs
Thanksgiving is ours. and We are going to keep it.
From the l,me Of Governor Bradford and that first
Thanksgiving day, each year has witnessed Its OBJ
servance. First it was only ~ one colony, then 1t
spread to another and another, until, when dsunion
with the mother country President George Wash
ingon recommended that it be made national event.
The recommendation not adopted, but every pres
ident down to Lincoln proclaimed a Thanksgiving day.
Most of the states observed it. but few did Pres
ident Lincoln first complete recognition
of it. aad since there hes been no break.
Nor viii there be. Thanksgiving day Is as dis
tinctve a feature Of the American calendar as the
Fourth of July OF Christmas Age has haowed, mem
Dry has sanc6ed IT. Tomorrow, all over this broad
land, in Cuba in the Philippines Porto Rice In every
foreign land where American colony is established
Thanksgiving services viii be held Thanksgiving din
ners viii be eaten.
Woe to the man woman who finds no reason for
Sgving thanks The year may have been bad, the har
vest seaDty. bat il the gloom-paled sky there must
have been patch Of blue ray of sunshine must
have found a rift Many viii find their reason for
thanks in the good they do others for tomorrow
Is the dav of all days when mons should know the
bghting touch of want.
Sod help the human being who doesn't want to help
his neighbor this day. and in the words of Tiny Tim
Good bless lis every one"