The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-10-31
DAY OF THANKS SET
President Names Last Thurs.
day in November
CHARACTER The GOAL SOUGHT
Democracy Must Use the Ten Tasents
Ent-u.sed II and Pray for lie syir-
il Of EishtsoazResS zna Jus.lCe Ia
vain Lies Hops c. kas!eas Par
petuity.

Washington, ID. C., Special. Il. esi.
dent Roosevelt Saturday issued his
Thanksgiving proclamation, through
tie Secretary oi State, naming tie
last Thursday in November, the
twenty eighth.
The proclamation follows:
"Onee again the season of the wear
has come when, in accordance with
the custom of our forefathers for
generations past, the President sp-
points day Is 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 pest.-
lence, from war. We are at peace
with all the rest of mankind. Our
natural resources are at least as great
as those of any other nation. We be-
lieve that in ability to develop and
take advantage of these resources the
average man of this nation stands at
least as high as the average man of
any other Nowhere else in the
world Is there such an opportunity
for free people to develop to the
fullest extent all its powers of body,
of mind, and of that which stands
above both body and mind-char-
acter
"Much has been given us from on
high and much wM rightly be ex.
pected of us in return. Into our care
the ten talents have been entrusted !,
and we are to be pardoned neither If
we squander and waste, nor if we
hide them in a napkin; for they must
be fruitful in our hands. Ever
throughout the ages, at all times and
among all peoples, prosperity has
been fraught with danger, and it be
hooves us to beseech the Giver of ali
things that we may not fall into love
of ease and luxury; that We may mol
forget our duty to God and TO oui
neighbor.
ga great Democracy like ours,
Democracy based upon the principles
of orderly liberty, can be perpetuated
only if in the heart of the ordinary
citizen there dwells a keen sense OF
righteousness and justice. We should
earnestly pray that this spirit of
righteousness ald justice may grow
ever greater in the hearts of all of US,
and that our souls may be inclined
evermore both toward the virtues
that tell for gentleness and tender
ness, for loving kindness and forbear.
ance one with another, and toward
those no less necessary virtues that
make our maniness and rugged hardi-
hood-for without these qualities
neither nation nor individual can rise
to the level Of greatness.
"Now, therefore, I, Theodore
Roosevelt. President of the United
States, do set apart Thursday, the
2sth day of November, as day OF
general Thanksgiving and Prayer.
and on that day I recommend thai
the people shall cease from their
daily work, and, in their home or IN
their churches meet devoutly to
thank Almighty for the many and
great blessings they have received If
the past, and to pray that they may
be given strength SO to order then
lives as to deserve a continuation OF
these blessings in the future.
"In witness whereof l have here
unto set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States to be affixed.
(Seal.)
"Done at the city of Washington
the twenty-ffth day of October, il
the year OF our Lord one thousand
nine hundred an seven and Of the In
dependence of the United States the
one hundred and thirty-seeond.
tSigned)
"Theodore Roosevelt
s'By the President:
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