Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1914-11-11
A Proclamation.

at 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 a nation. The year that
is now drawing to a close since
we last observed our day of ma
tional thanksgiving has been, while
a year of discipline because of the
mighty forces of war and of change
which have disturbed the world al
so a year OF special blessing for us.
at 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 priv
legged 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, fuller reali-
cation of their responsibilities as
we'll as of their blessings, and a
keener sense OF the moral and prac-
among the nations OF the world may
come to be.
"The hurtful effects of foreign war
n their own industrial and COM
nercial 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
Is they have seldom practiced be-
fore. They have been quickened by
I great moral stimulation. Their
unmistakable ardor for peace. their
earnest pity and disinterested SYM
oathy for those who are suffering,
their readiness to help and to think
IF the needs of others, has reveal
ID them to themselves as well as
% the world.
Our crops will feed all who need
iood; the self-possession of our peo-
ole amidst the most serious ankle
lies and difficulties and the steadi-
ness and resourcefulness of our bust
ness men will serve other nations
Is we'll as our own.
THE business of the country has
been supplied with new instrument
,alities, and the commerce OF the
world with new channels of trade
md intercourse. The Panama canal
las been opened to the commerce
If the nations. The two continents
IF America have been bound in
closer ties of friendship. New in
strumentalities of international trade
lave been created. which will also
DC new instrumentalities OF acquaint-
lnce, intercourse. and mutual SER
nee. Never before have the people
IF the United States been so stu
lted for their own advantage or the
advantage of their neighbors, or so
equipped to serve themselves and
mankind.
Now. therefore, l. Woodrow Viii
ION, President of the United States
Of America, do hereby designate
Thursday. the 10Th day OF November
next. as a day of thanksgiving 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 | have here
INTO set my hand and caused the
seal of the United States to be al
fixed
Done at the city of Washington.
This 18th day of October, in the year
If our Lord one thousand, nine hun
fred and fourteen. and OF the indie
oendence of the United States OF
America the one hundred and thir-
.y-ninth.
by the President:
WOODROW WILSON
ROBERT LANSING, Acting Sec
retarv OF State"