The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-11-19
THANKSGIVING
PROCLAMATION


BY the president of the United States of
American-A Proclamation
"Once again the season is at hand
when, according to the ancient custom
of our people it becomes the duty OF
the president to appoint a day of
prayer and OF thanksgiving to God.
"Year by year this nation grows in
strength and worldly power. During
the century and a quarter that has
elapsed since Jul entry into the circle
of Independent peoples we have grown
and %prospered in material things to
a degree never known before and not
now known in any other country.
"The thirteen colonies which strug-
gled along the seacoast of the Atlantic
and were hemmed in but a few miles
west of tide water by the Indian
haunted wilderness have been trans
formed into the mightiest republic the
world has ever seen.
cts domain stretches across the
continent from one to the other OF the
great oceans and it exercises dominion
alike in the growth in wealth and pop
ulation has 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.
"Forfthe very reason that in ma
terial well-being we have thus abound
ed, we owe to the Almighty to show
progress in moral and spiritual
things. With a nation, material we'll
being is an indispensable foundation.
But the foundation avails nothing by
itself.
That life is wasted and worse thar
wasted, which is spent in piling, heaT
upon heap, those things which minis
ter merely to the pleasure of the body
and to the power that rests only or
wealth.
"Upon material well-being as {
foundation must be raised the struc
ture of,the lofty life of the spirit, i
this nation is properly to fulfill it,
great mission and to accomplish al
that we so ardently hope and desire.
"The things Of the body are good
the things of the intellect, better, blu
best OF all are the things of the sou
for in the nation as in the individual
in the long run, it is character tina
counts. Let US therefor as a peopl
set our faces resolutely against evi
and with broad charity. with kindnes
and good will toward all men, bu
with unlinching determination t.
smite down wrong, strive with all tn
strength that is given US for righteous
ness in public and in private life.
CHOW therefore, I Theodore Roose
welt, president of the United States, d
set apart Thursday, the 26th day @
November next, as a day of genera
thanksgiving and on that day I recon
mend that the people shall cease fror
their daily work and in their home
or in their churches, meet devoted
to thank the Almighty for the man
and great blessings they have receive
in the past and to pray that they ma
be given strength so to order thei
lives as to deserve a continuation Q
these blessings in the future.
SIN witness whereof, | have here
unto set my hand and caused the sea
: Of the United States to be affixed:
: "Done at the City of Washington
this th~irty-frst day of October in tn
year Of Our Lord, one thousand, min
hundred and eight, and of the indeper
> Edendence of the United States the on
/ hundred and thirty-third.
Theodore Roosevelt
By the president:
i "Alva A. Adee, acting secretary
? state"