Arizona republican., 1908-11-27
Prominent Speakers Tell Why
 We are Thankful SERVICES AT CHURCHES
Gen A. J. Sampson, B. A. Fowler and Rev. J. w. At wood Deliver Addresses
 at Trinity Church--Union
 Services Methodist Church.

Three addresses of unusual interest
 were delivered at the Thanksgiving service held in Trinity church yes terday morning. The address of Gen. A J. Sampson, former minister to Ecuador, was entitled Some Reasons Why the Nation Should Give Thanks" B. A Fowler's subject was Some Reasons for Thanks in Arizona and
 Phoenix and Rev. w. G. Atwood spoke on Reasons for Thanksgiving in the Church"
 General SampsOn's address was of peculiar interest because of his many years of experience in the diplomatic service.
 He said: There are many more reasons than I can enumerate in the time allotted to me why, as a nation. we should today return thanks. As one Of the family. of nations we should be thankful for the good that comes to other nations. In a family. city, Q community, a state, na- tion, the grand achievements of one is a source of rejoicing to the whole. Hence, as a nation. we have cause for thanksgiving for the young life, the new life, the progressive life that has come to the Ottoman empire dur ing the present year; that her peo- pie have been granted liberties. rights and powers never before enjoyed, and that we may now reasonably hope never again to be startled by the re- volting accounts of Macedonian cruel ty and butchery.
 As a nation we were proud of the fact that we had done what no other nation has ever been able to do, had created and given life to a new na- tion. when we set Cuba up in busi- ness for herself. But until within the present month it has been somewhat of a question whether our work was well done or not; whether that na- ton was to live or die. Under the tutelage of >our government that gov ernment has elected her executive and congress in a legal, honorable manner, such as entities her to be ranked as one of the independent powers of the world and SD recog- nized and honored. This is another reason why we should today be thankful.
 For the second time we created ldllblldl lAAt Nllfll We si9hfh ARlt world to recognize the republic of Panama. Hef crucial period of life was passed during the present year in her presidential election, held un- der the direction and advice of the United States, resulting most satis- factorily, for which we render sin cere thanks.
 By the placid waters of Lake Ge- neva in 1864 there was formulated by the National Congress of Arbitra- ton there assembled, a plan for the more humane. treatment of prisoners of war, and various other provisions for mitigating the horrors of war, but it was left to the Hague Peace Conference of 1908, called at the re- quest of our intrepid, progressive President Roosevelt, to adopt various provisions having in view the settle ment of all international controver- sies without resort to war at all The result of that conference, very largely dominated by the American representatives to it, will reach far into the twentieth century, if not for all the centuries to come. This year will ever be referred to as a mile stone in the history of nations. show ing their conference for universal peace, and for which we all give thanks.
 "The year 1908 will forever be memorable as the one in which the emperor of China, after a rule, mostly nominal, of over a third of a century, and Tsi An, the, empress dowager of the same nation, died. While we do not today give thanks for their death, we do rejoice that there has come to that great nation new spirit, that there has been born in it new life, into its national power has been in jected a broader. more liberal more progressive element that will place that nation in more harmonious re- lations with other nations than ever before, and we may reasonably hope there will never again occur such a disgracefuI thing as the Boxer upris- ing. Our own noble able, late sec retary of state, John Hay, laid the foundation for all the future of China when he served notice en the na- tions of the world that The integrity. of China is a sacred trust and must he preserved