The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-11-06
Proclamation

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President Wilson has designated
Thursday, Nov. 26 as Thanks
giving day in the following pro-
clamation:
By the president of the United
States of America.
"A procIamation:
1T has long been the honored
custom of our people to turn in the
fruitful autumn of the year IN
praise and tn a ksgiving to
Almighty God for his many bles-
sings 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 be-
cause of the mighty forces OF war
and of change which have disturb
ed the. world, also year of special
blessing for us.
It has been vouchsafed to us to
remain 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 privi-
legged 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 a deeper comprehension, a
fuller realization of their response
bility as we'll as of their blessings
and keener sense of the moral
and practical significance of what
their part among the nations of
the world may come to be.
The hurtful effects of foreign
war id their own industrial and
commercial affairs have made them
feel the more fully and see the
more clearly their mutual interde-
pendence upon one another and
has stirred them to helpful COOP
Grafton such as they have seldom
practiced before. They have been
quickehed by a great moral stimu-
lation.. Their unmistakable ardor
for peace, their earnest pity and
their DISTINGUISHED sympathy for
those who are suffering, their readi-
ness to:help and to think of the
needs of others, has revealed them
to themselves as we'll 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
steadin4ss and resourcefulness of
our business men will serve other
nations. as well as Our own.
The business of our country
has been supplied with instrument
talities and the commerce of the
world with new channels of trade
and intercourse. The Panama
canal has been opened to the COM
merce of the nations. The two
continents of America have been
bound in closer ties of friendship.
New instrumentalities of interna-
national trade have been created
which will be also new instrument
talities of acquaintance, intercourse
and mutual service. Never before
have the people of the United
States been so situated for their
own advantage or the advantage of
their neighbors or so equipped to
serve themselves and mankind.
Now, therefore, I, Woodrow
Wilson, president of the United
States of America, do hereby desig-
nate Thursday, the twenty-sixth of
November next as day of thanks
giving and, prayer and invite the
people Throughout the land to
cease from their wonted occupations
and in. their several homes and
places of worship render thanks to
Almighty God.
In, witness whereof 1 have here
unto 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 thou
sand, 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,