The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-11-12
PEOPLE WILL GIVE THANKS.
President Roosevelt Has Issued The
Annual Thanksgiving Proc
lamation

lamatlon.
President Roosevelt has issued his an
nual Thanksgiving proclamation, which
] is as follows:
/ By the President of the United States
of America.
a PROCLAMATION-On Once again the
/ season is at hand when according to the
ancient custom of our people, it be-
comes the duty of the President to APP
point day of prayer and of Thanks
giving to God
. Year by year the nation grows in
strength and worldly power During
the century and a quarter that has
elapsed since our entry into the circle of
independent people, we have grown and
prospered in material things toa degree
never known before and not now known
in any other country. The thirteen
colonies which struggled along the sea-
coasts at the Atlantic and were hemmed
in but Few miles west of tidewater by
the lndianhunter wilderness, have been
transformed into the mightiest Republic
which the world has ever seen. Its do
mains stretch across the continent from
one to the other of the two great oce-
ans, and it exercises dominion alike in
the Arctic and tropic realms
The growth in wealth and population
has surpasser even the growth in terri
tory. Nowhere else in the world is the
average individual comfort and material
well-being as high as in our fortunate
land
For the very reason that in material
well-belng We have thus abundant. we
owe it to the Almighty to show equal
progress to moral and spiritual things.
With a nation, as with individuals who
make up a nation, material well-being
is an indispensable foundation. But
the fou1dation avaiIs nothing by Itself.
That life is wasted and worse than
wasted which is spent in piling, heap on
heap, those things which minister mere
ly to the pleasure of the body and to the
power that rests upon wealth Upon
material well-being as a Foundation
must be raised the structure of the lofty
life Of the spirit if this nation is prop
/ erly to fulfill its great mission and to
accomplish all that we so ardently hope
and desire. The things Of the body are
good; the things Of the intellect better;
but the best Of all are the things Of the
! soul, for in the nation, as in this ndiyid-
ual in the long ran it is character THAI
counts. Let Us, therefore, as a people,
set our faces resoluteIy against evil.
aud with broad charity, with kindness
and good will toward all men, but with
untlinching determination to smite down
wrong, strive with all the strength that
is given us for righteousness in public
and private life
Now, therefore, /, Theodore Roose-
Welt, President Of the United States. do
set apart Thursday, the 265h day of No
yember, as d2y Of general thanksgiv-
ing and prayer, and on that day | rec
ommend that the people shall cease
from their daily work and, in their
homes or in their churches, meet de-
voutIy to thank the Almighty for the
many and great blessings they have re-
ceived in the past, and to pray that they
may be given strength so to order their
lives as to deserve a continuation of
these blessings in the future.
In witness whereof | have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this
thirty-frst day of October in the year
of our Lord, one thousand nineteen hun
bred and eight, and of the independence
Of the United States the one hundred
and thirty-third.
BY the President,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Alvey A. Adee, acting Secretary of
State