The Brandon news., 1903-11-05
President Roosevelt Issues His Annual
Proclamation.
Is SOMEWHAT PESSIMISTIC
Chief Executive Seems to Fear That Our
Form of Government is in Danger Of
Collapse, Against Which He Warns
The People.

tamation in the following terms:
"The season is at hand when, ac-
oording to the custom of our people,
70 falls on the president to appoint a
day of praise and thanksgiving to
God. During the last year the Lord
das dealt bountifully with us, giving
0s peace at home and abroad and the
chance for our citizens 10 work for
their welfare unhindered by war,
famine or plague. 1t behooves us not
only to rejoice greatly because of what
has been given as but to accept it with
. solemn sense of responsibility, real
txing that under heaven it 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 and at no other time has
ehe experiment of government of the
people, by the people and for the
people, been tried on so vast a scale
as here in our own country in the
opening years of the Goth century.
Failure would not only be dreadful
thing for us, but dreadful thing for
all mankind because it would mean
toss of hope for ell who believe
I'm the power and the righteousness
OF liberty. Therefore, in thank
ang God for the mercies extended to
as In the past, we beseech 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 80 that in the coming years
we may with cleanliness, fearlessness
and wisdom do our allotted work on
the earth in such manner as to show
that we are not altogether unworthy
of the blessings we have received.
"Now, 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 wonted
occupations, and in their several
places of worship render thanks uuto
Almighty God for his manifold
mercies. In witness thereof, I have
hereunto set my hand and caused the
seal of the United States to be affixed.
ssDone at the city of Washington,
this 31st day of October in the year of
our Lord, one thousand, nine hund-
red and three, and of the independ-
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 out of tha revo-
luton which centers at Puerto Plata
ls 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, go the navy de-
partment is arranging to send the
Dixie, now at Guantanamo, across to
San Domingo by way OF Kingston,
jamaica. if an emergency should arise
before the Baltimore reaches port.
A cablegram 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. 27. Only four Senators spoke.
Senator Carroll oposed the proposed
law of organization, regarding it as un-
constitutional, 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-
sing such treatv.
Fourth class appointed: Louisiana
Carroll, Red River, Chas. w. Year.
wood; Premier, ST. John the Baptist.
Mary Burgoon. Mississippi.-Cas-
ella, Tallahatchie, Annie Whitten:
Darling, Quitman, Pearl Jenkins:
Mud Greek, Pontotoc, James Fl. Pull
10y, Sycamore, Chikasaw, r. H. May
field; Turnersville, Jasper, Benjamiu
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