Arizona republican., 1909-11-26
THANKSGIVING SERVICES
 IN PHOENIX CHURCHES
A SPECIAL SERVICE AT TRINITY
 EPISCOPAL.
The Principal Feature An Address
 By Governor Sloan.

There were the usual Thanksgiving services at Phoenix churches. but a special service was arranged at Trim ity Episcopal church, with Governor Sloan as the principal figure. The subject Of the governors address was. Why We Should Be Thankful As a Nation" The governor said:
 At the request of my friend. the rector of this parish. I shall attempt tO state some reasons for thanksgiv- ing on the part of the nation In doing so I must necessarily be brief and dwell particularly upon those which are not common to the nations generally. but which especially apply to us.
 The world has enjoyed compara- tive peace during the year. Except in Morocco and the Central American states there has been no important conflict of arms. The world also has had no such overwhelming disaster like that which visited Italy last year. Famine. always present in the world. has not. as in former years. laid waste states or provinces. nor has any great scourge of disease overrun the earth. America. with the rest of the world. should rejoice in the good for tune which has attended the labor. toll. thought and effort of the people of other lands and climes. We should thank the common Father of us ali for the providence which has blessed his people throughout the earth.
 Notwithstanding the efforts of our socialistic friends to decry the senti- ment as a remnant left over from a barbaric age of strife and warfare. patriotism is not yet obsolete. Thank God. it still exists. as vital as eyer. though with the widening of the sympathies of man it's character has changed In its highest manifesto ton today it is like the devotion Of man to his family. IL may exist along with the love of ones neighbor. Pa triotism. defined as devotion to ones country. does not exclude the sense of justice and good will toward other oeoples and races As patriots. there fore in this sense We may rejoice in the growth and progress our nation is making in population and wealth, and take iiISf pride in the standing America has attained as a great world power We have reason also to be thankful that the past year has seen America advance still farther in all the clements of greatness and her prestige undiminished by any act of oppression. self-seeking or selfish az sression. We have added to the number of our uper-Dreadnaughts. to be sure. but we still lead in the cause of peace and the arbitration of na- tional differences by The Hague tri- arrlran aF1f one of it's most earnest advocates Peace and tranquility at home the good will and friendship of other na- tions and the absence of international disputes mark the year
 The harvest has been generous and our granaries are full to over flowing The financial depression of 1908 has been raised and the nation is moving on with courage and hope to new industrial triumphs. Labor IS employed. capital is seeking invest ment, and the energies of our people have turned afresh to the creation of new sources Of wealth and the de- velopment of those already existing. Wrongs are still perpetrated, and in equalities in opportunity have not all been removed. but who can deny that real progress towards industrial lib- erty and more just relation be- tween labor and capital is being made? To affirm the contrary is to close our eyes tO the vision of the present and to be deaf to the prophet ic voices which proclaim the coming Of the millennial day when universal industrial peace and justice shall reign triumphant not only in this land, but in all the earth.
 With much vulgarity in the dis play of wealth. with seeming growth in luxury and mere love of pleasure. | with frequent exhibitions of loose morals on the part Of the very rich. ! there is also a healthy sentiment and l a growing one on the side of righte- ous living. and an encouraging dis | play of sanity in the expenditure and i use of money by those who have it | in abundance. There is much to en- ! courage the belief that the nation is moving on to a. higher plane of liv- 1 ing. The conscience of the nation l has been awakened to the evils which 1, threaten it. This has resulted in cleaner politics, a higher standard of public service. a better code of com Inercial honor and a keener sense of the responsibility Of citizenship. There is no evidence that the past year has seen any recession of this moral up- lift of the nation. and for this We should be especially thankful.
 Again. we should be thankful, be- cause of the evidence we have of the