Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-10-31
President Roosevelt Names the Last
Thursday in MOI ember-2Sth.
We ARE AT PEACE WITH
ALL THE REST OF MANKIND
Much Has Been Given Us From on High and
Much Will Rightly Be Expected of Us
In Return-we ShOnld Meet DevOu,ly IA
Thank God for Blessings Received

Washington, Oct. 26.-Presidept
Roosevelt today issued his Thanksqiviny
proclamation, through the secretary of
state, naming the last Thursday in
November, the 18th.
The proclamation follows:
"Once again the season of the year
has come when, in accordance with the
custom of our forefathers for genera
lions past, the President appoints a
day as the especial occasion for all orr
people to give praise and Thanksgiving
to God. .
during the past year we have been
free from famine, from pestilence
from war. We are at peace with all
the rest of mankind. Our natural re-
sources are at least as great as those
OF 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 hi0h as
the average man of any other. Nowhere
else In the world is there such an oppor-
tunity for free people to develope 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 ten
talents have been entrusted; and we
are to be pardoned neither if we
squander and waste them; nor yet if
we hide them in a napkin: for thew
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 behooves
us to beseech the Giver of all things
that we may not fall into love of ease
and Of luxury; that we may not lose our
sense of moral responsibility; that we
may not forget our duty to God and to
our neighbor.
"A 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 a keen sense of
righteousness 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 ever
more both toward the virtues that tell
Tor gentleness and tenderness, for
loving kindness and forbearance one
with another, and toward those of less
necessary virtues that make our manli
ness and rugged hardihood-for without
these qualities neither nation nor
individual can rise to the level of
greatness.
Now, therefore, l, Theodore Roose-
welt, President of the United States, do
set apart Thursday, the cath day of
November, as day of general thanks
giving and prayer, and on that day
recommend that the people shall cease
from their daily work and, in their
homes or In their churches, meet
devoutly to thank the Almighty for the
many 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
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
this twenty-ffth day of October, in
the year Of Our Lord, one thousand
nne hundred and seven, and of the
independence of the United States. the
one hundred and thirty-second.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
By the President:
"ELIHU ROOT, Secretary of State. F."