The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1903-11-07
SETS DAY TO
GIVE THANKS
President Roosevelt Issues his Annual
Proeiamatiea-
S SOMEWHAT PESSIMISTIC
Chief Executive Seems to Pear That Our
Form of Government Is In DANGER Of
Collapse. Asalast Which he Warns
The People.

Washington--Ths Prssidsnt has
Issued his annual Thanksgiving proc
lamAtion In the following terms:
"rhe season IL At hand when. 40
,ording TO the custom OF our people.
il falls on the president TO appoint
day of praise and thanksgiving to
God. During the last year the Lord
has dealt bountifully with us. giving
Us peace at homo and abroad and the
chance for our citizens TO work for
their welfare unhindered by war,
famine or plague. II bshoovss Us not
only to rejoice greatly because OF what
has been given ne but TO accept IL with
= solemn sense of responsibility. real
izing that under heaven 1t rests with
us ourselves to show that We are
worthy to use Alright what has thus
been entrusted to our care. In no
other place aud at no other time has
the experiment. OF government OF the
people, by the people and for the
people, been tried on so vast scale
as here in our own country In the
opening years of the Goth century
Failure would not only be q dreadful
thing for us, but dreadful thing for
all mankind because 1t would mean
loss of hope for all who believe
in the power and the Righteousness
OF liberty. Therefore. in thank
ing God for the msreies extended to
as In the past. We bssseoh Him that
he may not withhold them in the fut-
ure and that our hearts may be reused
to war steAdfastly for good and
against all the forces of evil. public
and private. We pray for strength
and light so that in the coming years
we may with cleanliness, fesriessness
and wisdom do our allotted work on
the earth in such manner 10 to show
that we are not altogether unworthy
of the blessings we have received.
snow, therefore, I, Theodore Roose-
Welt, president OF the United States,
do hereby designate as . day Of gen
eral Thanksgiving, Thursday, the
twenty sixth Of the coming November
and do recommend that throughout the
land people cease from their wontsd
occupations, and In their several
places Of worship render thanks unto
Almighty God for his manifold
msrciss. In witness thereof. have
hereunto set my hand and caused the
seal Of the United States TO be AFFIXED.
Ozone at the city Of Washington.
this 81 st day of October In the year OF
our Lord, one thousand, nine humid
red and three, and Of the indspend-
ence of the United States the one
hundred and twenty eighth. (Signed)
by the President and Secretary OF
State"
United States Minister Powell has
again cAbled the state department from
San Domingo that the disturbance in
the republic growing ont OF. ths rsvo-
luton which centers ut Puerto Plata
is increasing. and he suggests the ad-
visibility of having a United States
warship. The cruiser Baltimore,
which sailed from Hampton Roads for
San Domingo, cannot arrive until the
middle of next week, so the navy de-
partment is arranging to send the
Dixie, now at Guantanamo, scross to
San Domingo by way Of Kingston,
Jamaica. If an emergency should arise
before the Baltimore reaches port.
A cabIegrAm from United States
Minister Beaupre, at Bogota, to the
States Department describes the canal
proceedings in the Columbian Senate
as follows: The report OF the COM
mittee was discussed In the Senate
Oct. 81. Only four Senators spoke.
Senator Carroll opposed the proposed
law of organization, regarding it as I'M
ooastitutional, ON the ground that any
action which the present Government
might take would be subject TO the
approval of the next and of future
Congresses. He vigorously denoun-
ced the treaty ITSELF and the selfish
motives OF the United States in desir-
ing such a treaty.
Fourth class appointed: Louisiana
Carroll, Red River, Chas. W. Year.
wood; Premier, st. John the Baptist,
Mary Burgoon. Mississippi. Gas.
ella, Tallahatchie, Annie whittier
Darling. QuitmAn, Pearl Jenkins
Mud Creek, Pontotoc. James Il. Pull
Icy, Sycamore, ChikAsav, r. Il. May.
field; Turnersville, Jasper. Benjamin.
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