The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-29
PROCLAMATION BY PRESIDENT
Naming November 2Sin as a Dav
of Thanksgiving
Country Has Been Free From Fam
inc, Pestilence and War-huch
Has Been Given to Us From on
High and Much Will BE Expect
ed From Us.

Washington, D. c., october 90
President Roosevelt today issued his
thanksgiving proclamation, through
the secretary of state, naming the last
Thursday in November, the 18th
The thanksgiving proclamation tol-
lows:
Once again the season Of the year
Ihas come when, in accordance with the
Icustom of our forefathers for genera
ltions past, the president appoints
day as the especial occasion for all our
people to give praise and thanksgiV
ing 10 God.
During the past year We have been
free .Erom famine, from pestilence, from
war. We are at peace with all he
rest of mankind. Our natural resoW-
ces are at least as great as those or
any other nation. We believe 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-character.
Much has been given us from on
nigh and much will rightly be expected
| of us in return. Into our care the -e:
talents have been entrusted; and we
| are to be pardoned neither il We
squander and waste them, nor yet II
we hide them in a napkin; for the;
must be fruitful in our hands. EVei
Throughout the ages, at all times anC
among all peoples, prosperity has Deer
drought with danger, and it behooVe'
lus to beseech the Giver Of all th'nS
THAT We may not fall into love OF eal'
land luxury; that we may not lose on
Isense of moral responsibility; that W.
lmag not forget cur duty to God ant
Ito our neighbor.
"a great democracy like ours, a de-
mocracy based upon the principles o1
orderly liberty, can be perpetuate1
)only if in the heart of the ordinar
citizen there dwells a keen sense o
righteousness and, justice. We shUul
earnestly pray that this spirit of righ
eousness and justice may grow eve
greater in the headts Of all of us
land that our souls may be inclined
lever more both toward the virtue
that tell for gentleness and tender
lnessfi for loving kindness and for
bearance one with another those n
LESS necessary virtues that make OF;
marliness and rugged hardihood-fo
! without these qualities, neither ma
Ition nor Individual can rise to ir
level of greatness.
"Now, therefore, | Theodore Roose
: lvelt, president of the United States, :
e lset apart Thursday, the 2Sth day
November as a day of general thank
- giving and prayer, and on that daY
2 recommend that the people shall cea
from their daily work, and, in the
homes or in their churches, meet d
E, voutly to think the Almighty for r
= many and great blessings they ha
\ received in the past, and to pray III
q they may be given the strength 60
r torder their lives as to deserve co
tinuation Of these blessings in the
8 ture.
: I'm witness whereof, I have heI
# unto set my hand and caused the
n Of the United States to be affixed.
Q Done at the city of Washington II
5 wenty-fifth day of October, in the ye
of our Lord one thousand, nine HI
dred and seven, and OF the indeoel
'ence Of the United States. the one I'D
80 dred and thirty-second.
(Signed)
st THEODORE ROOSEVELT
! BY the President:
q ELIHU ROOT, Secretary Of State