The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-28
THANKSGIVING
PROCLAMATION
President Wilson Issue. Appeal to
Citizens to Observe Thursday
November 2e as Day Of
Thanks.
I SEASON OF PLENTY
tied States is a Nation Of Peace,
While Other Countries Are in
Disturbed State Of
War.

ident today issued proclamation des-
ignating November &c as Thanksgiv-
ing day. The presidents holiday
proclamation dwelt on the peaceful
situation in which America now finds
herself while most Of the rest of the
world is at war. st. has long been
the honored custom of our people to
turn In the fruitful autumn year in
praise and thanksgiving to Almighty
God for His many blessings and mer-
cies to us as nation" the prociama-
ton reads. The year that is now
drawing to close since we last OBJ
served our day Of national thanksgiy-
ing has been, while year OF dis
cipline because OF mighty forces of
war and of change which have dis
turbed the world, also year OF spec
ial blessings for US.
1T has been vouehsafed to us to re-
main at peace, with honor and sinssoppe
part to succor the suffering and sup
ply the needs 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 purposes OF a
day Of fear and distress. Our people
have looked upon their own life as a
nation with deeper comprehension,
a fuller realization of their respons-
Utilities as well as OF their blessings,
and keener sense of the moral and
practical significance Of what their
part among 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 inter-de-
pendance upon one another and has
stirred them to helpful cooperation
such as they have seldom practiced
before. They have been quickened by
great moral stimulation. Their un-
mistakable ardor for peace, their
earnest pity and disinterested SYM
pathy for those who are suffering,
their readiness to help and to think
OF the needs of 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 peo-
pie amidst the most serious anxieties
and difficulties and the steadiness and
resourcefulness of our business men
will serve other nations as well as
our own.
The business of the country has
been supplied with new instrumental
tiles and the commerce OF the world
with new channels of trad, and in
tercourse. The Panama canal has
been opened to the commerce Of the
nations. The two continents of Amer
lea have been bound in closer ties of
international trade have been Great
ed which will be also new instru-
mentalities of acquaintance, inter
course and mutual service Never be-
fore have the people of the United
States been SO situated for their own
advantage or advantage Of their neigh
bors, or so equipped to serve them
selves and mankind.
Now, therefore, /, Woodrow Will
son. president of the United States of
America, do hereby designate Thurs
day the twenty-sixth of November.
next, as day of thanksgiving and
prayer and invite the people through
out the land to cease from their oc-
cupations and in their several homes
and places of worship, render thanks
to Almighty God.
I'm witness whereof l hereto set
my hand and caused the seal Of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington
this twanty-eighth day of October, in
the year of our bertrone thousand,
nine hundred and fourteen, and of
the Independence of the United States
OF America. the one hundred and thir-
| ty-ninth.
fsigned> WOODROW WILSON.
BY the President.
i"Robt Lansing. acting sec. Of state