The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-11-03
PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION.


President Wilson issued a proclama-
ton designating Thursday, November
rs, as Thanksgiving Day. The presi-
dents proclamation, which refers to
the fact that the United States is at
peace, while the rest of the world is at
war, follows:
by the President Of the United
States of America:
A PROCLAMATION.
ut has long been the honored Gus
tom OF our people to turn in the fruit
'ful autumn Of the year in praise and
thanksgiving to Almighty God for His
many blessings and mercies to us as
a nation. The year that is now draw
ing to close since we last observed
our day of national thanksgiving has
been, while year of discipline be-
cause of the mighty forces of war and
change which have disturbed the
world, also a year Of special blessings
for us.
1T has been vouchsafed to us to re-
min at peace, with honor, and in some
part to succor the suffering and supply
the needs of those who are in want.
We have been privileged by our own
peace and self-contrSf in some degree
to steady the counselS and shape the
hopes and purposes of a day of fear
and distress. Our people have looked
upon their own life as nation with a
deeper comprehension, a fuller reali-
zatin of their responsibilities as well
as of their blessings, and keener
sense of the moral and practical signi-
ficance of what their part among the
nations of the world may come to be-.
'The hurtful effects of foreign war
in their own industrial and CONNER
cial affairs have made them feel the
more fully and see the more clearly
their mutual interdependence upon
one another and has stirred them to a
helpful cooperation such as they have
seldom practiced before. They have
been quickened by great moral slim
ulation. Their unmistakable ardOr for
peace, their earnest pity and disinter-
eSted sympathy for those who are
suffering, their readiness to help and
to think of the needs of others have
revealed them to themselves as we'll
as the world.
"Our crops will feed all who need
food; the self possession of our people
amidst the most serious anXieties and
difficulties and the steadinesS and re-
sourcefulness of our business men will
serve other nations as we'll as our
own.
"The business of the country has
been supplied with new instrumental
ties and the commerce of the world
with new channels of trade and inter
course The Panama Canal has been
opened to the commerce of the ma
tiOns. The two continents OF Amer
lea have been bound in closer ties of
friendship. New instrumentalitieS OF
international trade have been created
which will be also new instrumental
ties of acquaintance, intercourse and
mutual service. Never before have
the people of the United States been
so situated for their own advantage
of the advantage of their neighbOrs o.
so equipped to serve themselves and
mankind.
Now, therefore, |, Woodrow Will
son, President of the United States OF
America, do hereby designate Thurs
| day, twenty-siXth day OF November
next, as a day of Thanksgiving and
prayer, and invite the people through
out the land to cease from their won't
ed occupations and in their several
homes and places of worship render
thanks to Almighty God.
| I'm witness whereof | have hereto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington,
this twenty-eighth day of October, in
the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and fourteen, and OF
the independence of the United States
| of America the one hundred and thirty
ninth.
WOODROW WILSON,
by the President. Robert Lansing,
! Acting Secretary of State"