Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-10-29
THANKSGIVING DAY NOV. 2S
TIME SET APART FOR EXPIRES
SION OF GRATITUDE
The President Points Out That AcknOHI-
edgment Is Due OF Our Peace
and Prosperity

President Roosevelt ISSUED pTDcia-
nation saturday setting apart Thurs
day, November -, as a day Of thanks
giving and prayer The proclamation
follows:
'sBy the President Of the United
States os America.
a PROcLAMATfON.
''Once again the season Of the year
has come when, in accordance with
the custom Of our forefalbefs for gen
erations past, the President appoints
day as the especial occasion for
all our people 70. give praise aud
thanksgiving to God.
During the past year We have been
free from famine, from pestileuce,
from war. We are at peace with all
the rest Of mankind. our natural re-
sources are At least as great as those
OF any other nation.
"Wc believe that inability TO develop
aud take advantage Of these resources
the average man Of this. s..nation stands
~ least az high as the average man Of
ans atbeT. Nowhere else in the world
is nme such an opportunity for a
~ i,rop,p to develop TO the fullest
eAteni all It's powers Of body. Of
~ 90 ard Of that which stands above
body and mind, character.
Much has been given rs from ON
high and much will rightly be expect
cd Of ug ia return. into our care the
ten talents have been intTusted and
we are 10 be pafdOned neither IL we
squander and wsgte them, nor yet II
we hide them in a napkin for they
must be fruitful in our hands.
Gwen throughout the ages, At all
times and among all peoples, pros
perity has been fraugbt with danger,
aud IL bohOOyos us 10 beseeeh the
Givcr Of all things that we may not
fall into love OF case and Of luxuTy;
that we may not lose our sense Of
moral responsibility that we may
not forget our duty to God and 70 our
neighbOr.
"a great democracy like ours, a de-
mocracy based upon the principles Of
orderly liberty, can be sperpetnated
only if in the sheart sof the ordinary
citizen there dwelIs n keen sense Of
righteousness and justice.
1--WE should earnestly pray that
this spirit Of righteousness and jus
tice may grow ever greater In the
hearts OF all Of us and that our souls
may be inclined ever more both to-
ward the virtues that tell for gentle
ness and tenderness, Of loving kind
ness and forbearance one with another,
and toward those no less necessary
virtues that make for manliness and
rugged bardibood- without these
qualities neither nation nor individual
can rise 10 the level Of greatness.
Now therefore, J., Theodore RoOse-
Welt. President of the United states.
do set apart Tbursday, the 2stlI day Of
November, as tho day Of general
Thanksgiving and prayer, and on that
day recommend that the people shall
cease from their daily work, and, In
their homes or in their churches, meet
deyoutly 10 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 q continuation Of these bless
ings In the future.
"In witness whereof ! have bereun-
TO set my hand and caused the seal Of
the United Safes to be affixed.
Done at the City Of Washington this
twenty fifth day Of October, in the
year OF our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and seven and Of the indie
pendence OF the United States the
one hundred and tbirty-second.
(Seal.) THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
BY the President
Elihu Root, Secretary of State.''