Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1907-10-30
DAY OF THANKS SET.
President Names Last Thurs.
day in November
CHARACTER TIE GOAL SOUGHT
Democracy Must Use the Ten Talents
Entrusted It and Pray for the spir-
it of Righteousness and Justice in
Mhi.n Lies Hope of Nations Per-
petuity.

Washington, D. G., Special. -lrcsi-
dent Roosevelt Saturday issued his
Thanksgiving proclamation, through
tile Secretary Of State, naming t!,e
last Thursday in November, the
twenty-eighth,
The proclamation follows:
Once again the season of the year
has come when, in accordance with
the custom of our forefathers for
generations past, the President ap-
points a day as the especial occasion
for all our people to give praise and
thanksgiving to God.
aDuring the past year we have
been free from famine, from pesti.
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-
.ieve 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 will rightly be ex-
pected Of us in return. Into onr 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 all.
things that we may not fall into love
of ease and luxury; that: we may moi
forget our duty to God and to our
neighbor.
GA great Democracy like ours, a
Democracy based upon the principles
of orderly liberty, can be perpetuated
only if in the heart Of the ordinary
citizen there dwells keen sense Of
righteousness and justice. We should
earnestly pray that this spirit OF
Righteousness ,.Ed justice may grow
ever greater in the hearts Of all Of us,
and that our sonls may be inclined
everlnore both toward zthea virtues
that tell for gentleness and tender
ness, for loving kindness and forbear.
anee one with another, and toward
those no less necessary virtues that
make our manliness and rugged hardi-
hood-for without these qualities
neither nation nor individual can rise
to the level Of greatness.
.sNow, 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 that
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 in
the past, and>to pray that they may
be given strength so to order their
lives as to deserve a continuation Of
these blessings in the future.
SIN witness whereof I 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, i'll
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-second.
(Signed)
"Theodore Roosevelt"
stBy the President:
fsElihu Root, Secretary of State.