The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-11-12
PRESIDENT NAMES
THANKSGIVING DAY
Asks People to Cease Labors ard
Render Prayers.

President Wilson issued his annual
Thanksgiving proclamation, setting
Thursday, November &c. as a dav of
Thanksgiving and prayer and inviting
the people throughout the land to cease
from their wonted occupations and in
their several homes and places of wor-
ship torender thanks to Almighty God. 4"
The proclamation follows:
ut has long been the honored custom
of our people to turn in the fruitful
autumn of the year in praise and
thanksgiving to Almighty God for HIS
many blessings and mercies to US as
nation. The year that is now drawing
to a close since we last observed our
day of national thanksgiving has been,
while year of discipline because of
the mighty forces of war and of change
which have disturbed the world, also a
year of special blessing for US.
ut has been vochsafed to US to re-
main at peace, with honor. and in some
parts to succor the suffering and supply
the needs of those who are in want. We
have beer privileged by our own peace
and self-control in some degree to steady
the counsels and shape the hopes and
purposes of day of fear and distress.
Our people have looked upon their own
life as nation with deeper compre-
henson, deeper realization of their
responsibilities as we'll aslof their bless
ings and a keener sense of the moral
and practical significance of what their
part among the nations of the world
may come to be.
THE hurtful effect of foreign war in
their own industrial and commercial
affairs have made them feel the more
fully and see the more clearly their
mutual dependence upon one another and
have stirred them to helpful co-opera-
ton such as they have seldom practiced
before. They have been quickened by a
great moral stimulation. Their I'M
mistakable ardOr for peace, their ear
nest pity and disinterested sympathy
for those who are suffering, their readi-
ness to help and to think of the needs
of others have revealed them to them
selves as well as to the world.
Our crops will feed all who need food;
the self-possession of our people amid
the most serious anXieties and difficulties
and the steadiness and resourcefulness
of our business men will serve other
nations as well as our own.
1.-The business of the country has
been supplied with new instrument
talities 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 nations.
The two continents of America have
been bound IN closer guise of friend
ship. New instlumentalitie of inter
national trade been created which will
be also new instrumentahtie of ac-
quaintance, intercourse and mutual
service. Never before have the people
of the United States been so situated
for their own advantage or the adyan-
tage of their neighborS or so equipped
to serve themselves and mankind.
''Now, therefore, |, Woodrow Will
son, president of the United States of
America, do hereby designate Thurs
day, the 26th of November next as a
day of thanksgiving and prayer and in
vite the people throughout the land to
cease from their wanted occupations
and in their several homes and places
of worship render thanks to Almighty
God.
On 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 28th day of October, in the wear 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,