Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1914-11-12
THANKS
GIVING PROCLAMATION

''By the President of the United
States of America, Proclamation:
1T has long been the honored Gus.
tom of our people to turn in the fruit
full 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 drawing
to a close since we last observed our
day OF national thanksgiving has been,
while 4 year of discipline. because of
the mighty forces of war and changes
which have disturbed the world, also
a year of special blessing for us.
ut has been vouchsafed to US to re.
main at peace, with honor, and in some
part succor the suffering and supply
the needa of those who are in want
We have been privileged by our own
peace and self-control in some degree.
to steady the counsels and shape the
hopes and the purposes Of a day OF
fear and distress, Our people have
looked upon their own life as nation
with deeper comprehension, fuller
realization of their responsibilities as
we'll as of their blessings and keener
sense of the moral and practical sig
nificance 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 commercial
affairs have made them feel the more
fully and see the more clearly their
mutual interdependence upon one an
other and has stirred them to help
full cooperation such as they seldom
practiced before. They have been
quickened by q great moral stimula-
tion. Their unmistakable ardor for
peace, their earnest pity and others
has revealed them to themselves as
well as to 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 instrumentalities
and the commerce Of the world with
new channels of trade and intercourse.
The Panama canal has been opened to
the commerce of the nations. The
two continents of America have been
bound in closer ties of friendship.
New instrumentalities Of international
trade have been created which will be
also new instrumentalities Of acquaint-
ance, intercourse and mutual service.
Never before have the people Of the
United States been SO situated for
their own advantages. or the advan-
tages Of their neighbors, or 80 equipped
to serve themselves and mankind.
"Now, therefore. Woodrow Wilson.
president of the United States Of
America. do hereby designate Thurs
U6y, AOLll U0y Va ANOVVAAOOA AAOAS1
as day OF thanksgiving and prayer
and invite people throughout the land
to cease from their wonted occupa-
tions and in their several homes and
places of worship render thanks to
Almighty God.
I'm witness whereof, have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal o.
the United States to be fixed.
Done at the city OF washington
this 2sth day of October, in the year
Of our Lord one thousand nine hund-
red and fourteen. and Of the lndepen-
dence Of the United States Of America
the one hundred and thirty-ninth.
by the President.
WOODROW WILSON
ROBERT LANSING,
Acting Secretary of State"