Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-11-06
THE DAY OF THANKSGIVING.
President Roosevelt Issues Procla-
nation to People of Country.

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Washington, October 2S.--Presi-
dent Roosevelt has issued his Thanks
giving proclamation as follows:
once again the season )f the year
has come. when, in accordance with
the custom of our forefa hers for
generations past, the President ap,,
points a day as the especial occasion
for all our people to give praise and
Thanksgiving to God.
During the past year we have
been free from famine, from pesti-
lence, from war. We are at peace
with all the rest of mankind. Our
as those of any other nation We be-
lieye that In ability to develop and
take advantage of these resources
the average man of this nation
stands at least as high as the aver
age man of any other. No where
else in the world Is there such an
opportunity for free people to de-
yelop to the fullest extent all it's
powers. of body, of mind, and of
that which stands above both body
and mind--character. ) lHn5F
Much has been given us from on
high and much will rightly be ex-t
pected of US in return. Into our
Ecare the ten talents have been en-
trusted and we are to be pardoned
neither IL we squander and waste
them; nor yet IL we hide them in a
napkin; for they must be fruitful In
our hands. Ever throughout the
ages, at all times and among all peo-
pies, prosperity has been fraught
with danger, and. it benooves us to
beseech the Giver of all things that
we may not fall into love of ease
and of luxury; that we may not lose
our sense Of moral responsibility;
that we may not forget our duty to
God and to our neighbor.
| "A great democracy like ours, a
democracy based upon the principles
of orderly liberty, can be perpetual
ed only IL in the heart Of the ordi-
nary citizen there dwells a keen
sense of righteousness and Justice
We should earnestly pray that this
spirit Of righteousness and justice
may grow ever greater in the hearts
of all of US, and that our souls may
be inclined ever more both toward
the virtues that tell for gentleness
and tenderness, for loving kindness
and forbearance one with another,
and toward those no less necessary
virtues that make our manliness and
rugged hardihood-for without these
qualities neither nation nor individ-
ual can rise to the level OF greatness.
"Now, therefore, I, Theodore
Roosevelt, President of the United
States, do set apart Thursday, the
28th day Of November, as day OF
general Thanksgiving and prayer,
and on that day I recommend that
the people shall cease from their
daily work, and, in their homes, or
in their churches, meet devoutly to
thank the Almighty for the many and
great blessings they have received in
the past, and to pray that they may
be given the strength so to order
their lives as to deserve contiua-
ton of these blessings in the future.
6'In witness whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and caused the
seal Of the United States to be af-
fixed. nu
H"Done at the City of Washington,
this 25th day Of October, in the year
| of our Lord one thousand
| (Seal.) nine hundred and seven,
| and Of the independence OF
the United States the one hundred
and thirty-second.
| Signed: Theodore Roosevelt
/ "By the President:
| "Elihu Root,
| Secretary of State"
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