The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-11-23
Governor Issued Annual
Holiday Proclamation We'd
neSday Evening.
TOUCHES MORAL ISSUES
Says Present Money Stringeney IS Only
Temporary. for Capital Must Seek
the Existing Opportunities.

Governor Polk Wednesday evening
issued his Thanksgiving proclamation
at Jefferson City. In every respect
the text is temperate, well written
and appropriate. The proclamation
follows;
st is beautiful custom of the
American people to set apart one day
each year as a special festival Of
praise and thanks to the Ruler Of the
Universe, whose sovereignty they
acknowledge.
therefore, /, Joseph w. Folk,
Governor Of Missouri, do hereby desig-
nate Thursday, the twenty-eighth
day Of November, 1907, as day Of
thanksgiving, and recommend that it
be observed as such throughout the
Commonwealth.
I'm the midst of life's strife it is
becoming that we pause occasionally
to acknowledge our dependence upon
a higher power. Each Of US, whether
in public Office or private station, has
his duties and responsibilities. 1t is
just as essential for the private
citizen 70 discharge the responsible
tiles resting upon him as it is for the
faithful carrying out of political
obligations in the public service.
That character the average indivl-
dualon which free government rests
is strong in proportion as 1t draws its
inspiration from divine sources which
glyesstrength to meet eourageously
the duties Of life and fulfill each
Obligation with fidelity.
"The year that is closing has been
rich in evidences Of divine goodness.
The people Of this Commonwealth
have prospered greatly; our cities
have grown in magnihcence and
every part Of the State has increased
in population and wealth; the har-
vests have been bountiful the fields
and mines have yielded abundant V,
many laws Of vast Importance to the
people have been enacted, the laws
have been enforced, health preserved,
peace and good order maintained;
new Institutions Of learning and of
charity have been provided for splen-
did public buildings have been erect
ed: there have been no disastrous
strikes and nopestilence has put its
blight upon us: the industrial re-
sources OF the State we're never
greater and the people never
more happy and contented. True it
is that in common with our sister
States for the moment there is
stringency in means Of exchange, but
this condition where the resources Of
eur people are so enormous can only
be temporary; for, as water finds its
levels 50 capital must come from its
hiding place to seek the opportun-
titles that lie so invitingly around us.
"Notonly have our people pros
pered in things material, but moral
prosperity is everywhere apparent.
The age Of conscienceis before US,
,pot buried in the past, and it will
Some about when there is more of
golden rule and less of the rule of
lin our daily lives, when the doc
~ Of brotherhood and equal rights
bmes the standard for government
faction and private conduct. In
dawn of this better day let us
Mare, in charging wreng-doing,
on charging where it does not
st3 Injustice be done; but once sure
sSsvil, letus be certain in its
SeNation. Let us encourage
'of land attack not wealth, but
Of wealth. Let us fight not
[ the evil men do. Let us love
w, but manhood. Let is pre-
nate the principle Of popu-
lar Noyenment and recog.
nize IL. argest liberty of the
in niividuai citlzen consistent With
law and order, pnite 10 enforcing the
laws and counteracting any attempt
to defy thein. Let as realize. that
III make laws, does not mean
iicence to break laws; that tho
liberty guaranteed US IS liberty under
the lalS not liberty against the law
Let us bot array Glass against class
but preserve the rights Of all BY
causing each 70 fespecethe rights q