Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-10-30
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= Once again the season of the !.
= year has come when, in accord :
!. ancs with the custom of our fore =
q fathers for generations past, the !.
= president appoints a day as an :
. especial occasion for all our peo- -
!: pie to give praise and thanksgis- :.
& ing to God. -
During the past year we have ::
q been free from, famine, from pes !.
= thence, from war. We are at +.
= peace witt, ali the rest Of man s.
I. kind. Our natura! resources are I:
e at least as great as those Of any =
= other nation. We believe that in :.
: ability 10 develop and take advan- )
8 taae Of these resources the aver i.
!: age man Of this nation stands al i.
/. least as high as The average man ]:
2 OF any other. Nowhere else in Z.
q the world is there suct, an oppor- !.
4 q tunity for 4 free people 70 de-
e yelop to the fullest extent all It's :.
!. powers OF bDuy and OF mind, and !:
4: of that which stands above both !:
! 2, body and mind character. =.
Much has been given us from Z.
= On High, and much will rightly Z.
4, be expected of US in return. into I.
g our care ten talents have been =
= entrusted and We are 70 be par /.
= doned, neither IL we squander 4
4. and waste them, nor yet it we =
. hide them in a napkin, for they !:
. rnuss be fruitful IN our hands. J:
=. Throughout the ages, At all times, !:
and among all peoples, prosperity !.
I. has been fraught with danger !:
2 and it befooses US to beseech the &
Giyer Of Ali Things that we may !:
4. not fall into the love of ease and !:
iilxlry;; that we may not lose our !:
sense OF moral responsibility; !:
that we may not forget our, duty !:
= 60 God and to our neighbor. !:
A great democracy like ours, !:
democracy based upon principles !:
of orderly liberty, can be perpetu- I:
q ated only il in The heart of the :
y ordinary citizen there cWelIs !.
q keen sense of Righteousness and I
y justice. We should earnestly !:
gray that this spirit Of righteous !
p ness and justice may grow ever ]:
y greater in the hearts of all OF us .
q and that our souls may be in J.
. ciined ever more bott, toward the I
q virtues, that tell for gentieness .
q and tenderness, for loving kind
ness and forbearance, one with !.
q another, and toward those no less /.
necessary virtues that make for .
=. naassiness and rugged hardwood,
y for without these qualities nei- .
q tI,er nation nor Individual can I
y rise to the level Of greatness. 1
IN q Now, therefore, |, Theodore .
Roosevelt, president Of the Uni .
q ted States, do set apart Thurs /.
p day the twenty-eighth day of No I.
9 semher, as a day OF general
thanksgiving and prayer, and on I
8. that day | recommend that peo- .
" pie shall cease from their daily /
< work and, in their homes or in /.
their churches, meet, devoutly TO I
4 = thank the Almighty for the many
& n and great blessings they have re- !
n ceiyeu III the past, and 10 pray |
q chat sfrey may be given strength !.
Y n 30 20 order their lives as to de-
81 = serve 4 continuation Of these
q blessings III The future.
Il N y n q, ~ y q y ~ a y -
The Dickinson Recorder does M
& Intend 20 be left out Of the politics
proesssion and Id its last Issue says
Since It has become fashionable *
the papers throughout the state |
name their choice for the various pos
tons on the state ticket, and not wisl
ing 10 be considered entirely ontt
the fashion we will state here, Withor
fear OF successful contradiction, ths