Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-11-06
THANKSGIVING NOV. 26
PRESIDENT ISSUES HIS ANNUAL
PROCLAMATION.
Points Out Steady Growth of Nation in
Strength, Wealth, Population
and Comfort.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 2.-The
President has issued the annual Thanks
giving proclamation in which he pointed
out the steady growth of the nation in
strength, worldly power, wealth, and
population, and that our average indi-
vidual comfort and well-being is higher
than that of any other country in the
world. For this, he declares, Americans
owe it to the Almighty to show equal
progress in moral and spiritual things.
The proclamation follows:
By the President of the United States OF
America A Proclamation.
Once again the season is at hand, whenr
according to the ancient custom OF our
people, It becomes the duty Of the Pres1-
dent to appoint day of prayer and or
Year BY year this nation grows in strength
and worldly power. During the century
and a quarter that has elapsed since our
entry into the circle of independent peoples:
we have grown and prOSpered in material
things to degree never known before, ana
not now known in any other country. Inc
thirteen colonies which struggled along the
seacoast Of the Atlantic and were hemmed
in but a few miles west OF t1dewater by
the Indian-haunted Wilderness, have been
transformed into the m1ght1eSt republic
which the world has ever seen.
Its domains stretch across the continent
from one to the other Of the two greatest
oceans and it exercises dominion alike ln
the Arctic and tropic realms: The growth
In wealth and population mas surpassed
even the growth in territory Nowhere else
in the world is the average OF Individual
comfort and material well being as high
as in our fortunate land.
For the very reason that in material well
being we have thus abounded, we owe It
to the Almighty to show equal progress IN
moral and spiritual things. With nation,
as with the individuals who make up q ma
ton, material well being Is an indispensa-
bic foundation. But the foundation avails
nothing by itself. That life is wasted,
worse than wasted, which is spent in Pill
those THINGS which
minister merely to the pleasure OF the BODY
and to the power that rests only with
wealth. ro.,.
ton must be raised the structure of the
lofty life Of the spirit, If this nation IS
properly to fulfil its great mission sic and to to
desire. The things of the body are good;
the things of the intellect better, but best
the nation as in the individual, in the long
run, it is character that counts: Let us,
therefore, as a people, set our faces reso-
lutely against evil, and with broad charity,
with kindness and good will toward all
men, but with unfinching determination
to smite down wrong strive with all the
strength that is given us for righteousness
Now, therefore, 1, Theodore Roosevelt.
Of the e United st f 90 5eF
as a day of general Thanksgiving and
prayer, and on the day l recommend that
the people shall cease from their daily
churches, meet devoutly to thank the Al
mighty for the many and great blessings
they have received in the past, and to pray
that they may be given strength 50 to
tion of these blessings in the future.
In witness whereof, 1 have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal Of the United
States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this thir-
ty-frst day of October in the year Of our
Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight,
and Of the independence OF the Un1teo
States the one hundred and thirty third.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
By the President, Alvey A. Adee, Acting
Secretary Of State.