The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-27
PROCLAMATION OF
THANKSGIVING DAY.
The President, in His Official
Announcement, Warns
Against Luxury.
PLEA FOR RUGGED HONESTY.
Executive Also Urges Cultivation
of Gcntlcncss and Gratitude
to God.

WASHINGTON, d. c., October 26.-
President Roosevelt to-day issued his
Thanksgiving proclamation. through
the Secretary of State. naming the las,
Thursday in November, the 2sth. The
Thanksgiving proclamation follows:
"Once again the season OF the year
has come when, in accordance with the
custom of our fo%refathers for genera
tons past, the President appoints q day
MS 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 pe%stilence. from
war. We are Mt peace with all the rest
of mankind. Our natural resources are
Mt least as great as those of II 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.
Nothing else tn4the world Is there
such al opportunity for a free people
to develop to the fullest extent all its
powers of body. of mind and OF that
which stands above both body and
Much has been given us from on
high and much will rightly be expected
of us in return. Into our care the ten
talents have been entrusted, and we are
to be pardoned. neither il we squander
and waste them. nor yet IL we hide
them in a napkin; for they must be
fruitful in our hands. Even through
out the ages at all times and among
all peoples, prosperity has been fraught
with danger. inc It behooves us to
.beseech the giver of all things that
we may not fall into love OF ease and
luxury; that we may not lose our sense
of moral responsibility; that we may
not forget our duty to God and to our
"A great democracy like ours. Il de-
mocracy based upon the principles Of
orderly liberty. can be perpetuated only
II in the heart of the ordinary citizen
there dwells a keen sense OF righteous
ness and Justice. We should earnestly
pray that this spirit of righteousness
and 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 gem
tleness and tenderness. for loving
and forbearance one with an
other, and toward those no less nee
virtues hat make our manli-
ness and rugged h%aldihood, for without
these qualities neither nation nor in
dividual can rise to the level of great
ness.
Now, therefore, /, Theodore Roose-
Welt, President of the United States. do
set apart Thursday, the 2Sth day of
and prayer. and on that day l
recommend that the people shall cease
from their daily work. and, in their
voutly to thank the Almighty for the
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 a con-
tinuation Of these blessings in the flu
ture.
I'm witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of
I q - ~ 4 ~al 1
Done at the city of Washington on
this. twenty-fifth day of October. In
the year of our Lord one thousand nine
and seven. and of the indie
pendence Of the United States the one
and thirty-second.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
rotary of State"