The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-11-26
NJ Thanks For
Material Blessings
NOT Received
Rsssrvs Your Gratitude TIN You
Know Who 10 Getting
the Bounty.

81 the Bounty. y This clause used without quail
fcation of can't
The material things not be nationa blessing
Il depends who them and how they got them and
how equtaby land has been distributed
among the producers of the country.
No how sinister their OF accumulation ano no
matter how much their gain has robbery Of other
always "whted sepulches who are found
declaring this official thanksgiving time how good the Lord mas
been to them
So their gratitude goes up but doubt if heard at
heavens gate above the cries of their victims
the (no blessing)
nequtaby material prosperity wrote powerful
book recently showing how the wealth that gained but
leading shocking social the very
that earned but not received
frighul misery and despair take hold Of the very poor
He decided put impressions into book when he found
that in the weah and city of the country women were
engaging specialists their dogs while children were
eating out of garbage pals.
Woudnt be in order for strike the customary
acknowledgement of the bounes the till the above
for the poodlesa
give average fairer chance social
and industrial him to land somewhere
between dscrdabe of pluocracy and
And until provide for respectable old better choice
than the poorhouse prison deuction Other nations have
pointed the way in the old-age pension system
We give this of Carriers pictures illustrate
material rewards do necessarily
classify with peoples blessings.
The may well rejoice and give thanks that Richard
Croker celebrating Thanksgiving today did the days
when the blood money which Tammany wrested from
city to him in continual stream.
The picked bone is all Tammany has offer the
back review the happy days before
spirit of Tiger ouawed the
raceack gambling in which the archcorruponist much
delights
relation the
old days of and gaming the of taxdden
people.
changed criminal sway argues FIX the uness Of
the people communicating
ing course sse in that
This that good government I'D honest industry and
legitimate sport haSs more to look forward to-
We ought be thankful t material prosperity going to
avhnes and dpoporon those favorites Of
taken by high tariff system
the expense
This perhaps hopeful and too long look ahead The
congress- representing for whom the
Thanksgiving expression of gratitude for material have
especial significance, are be reckoned with
But thankful that Mr. Taft be intent
laying of genuine Thanksgiving broad enough for
al participate
While Andrew carneges pipe organ in the Fifh-av castle
reverberang with mighty concods of gratitude for tariff blessings
denounced blessed give protective snap than to
receive
That is what many saying years.
that laird of Skbo castle has the light before
blessings brighten they take their
eave-brghten recipients make possible for all
people rejoice the possibility of restoration of what has
long been withheld from them
When congress goes plumber Carnegie
in his confession the participation of the nation in the
Thanksgiving spirit for blessings received will be deepened
mendously.
you Rockefeller deposed and
sad the witness stand will understand why such pro-
ous share of these material blessings failed reach
% our people. They detected in tranmsson.
The stereoyped expression gratitude absolutely
oound heado Standard
proclamation instead of the president and the
governors
The fact that he has been compelled by the federal legal
tell how the Thanksgiving procamation be
written largely for him alone is important
Like Boss Crokes dismal Thanksgiving Mr. Tafts good
touching the tariff Mr. Carngies
life brings faint promise Of happy
the giving of thanks for bounies shoered upon will
4 UNIVERSAL festival.