The Colorado statesman., 1914-10-31
GIVE THANKS TO PEACE
PRESIDENT ISSUES THANKS
GIVING PROCLAMATION.
0welIs on American Freedom From
War, and Says Bountifu Crops
Feed All Who Need Food.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington.-Pres Wilson to-
day issued a proclamation designating
Thursday, Nov. 26, as Thanksgiving
day.
The Presidents proclamation, which
refers to the fact that the United
States is at peace while the rest of the
world is at war, follows:
By the President of the United
States of America.
A 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
nation. The year that is now draw
ing to a close since We last observed
our day of national thanksgiving has
been, while a year of discipline be-
cause of the mighty forces of war and
of change which have disturbed the
world, also year of special blessings
for us.
1t has been vouchsafed to us to re-
main 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 privileged by our
own peace and self-control in some de-
gree 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
/ mo- tryifh H.,
fuller realization of their responsible
ties as well as of their blessings, and
keener sense of the moral and prac-
tical significance 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 have sell
dom practiced before. They have been
| quickened by n great moral stimula-
tion. Their unmistakable ardor for
peace, their earnest, pity and disin-
terested sympathy for those who are
| suffering, their readiness to help and
to think of the needs of others has re-
vealed 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
| m or will nthar rya oil
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 inter-
course. The Panama canal has been
| opened to the commerce of the ma
| tions. 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 instrument
talities of acquaintance, intercourse
and mutual service. Never before
have the people of the United States
been SO situated for their own advan-
| tage or the advantage of their neigh
bors or so equipped to serve them
selves and mankind.
Now, therefore, l, Woodrow Will
son, President of the United States of
America, do hereby designate Thurs,
day, the twenty-sixth of November
next, as a day of thanksgiving and
prayer and invite the people through
out the land to cease from their
wonted occupations and in their sew
eral homes and places of worship rem
der thanks to Almighty God.
In witness whereof l have hereunto
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 thousand, nine
hundred and fourteen and of the
independence of the United States of
America the one hundred and thirty
ninth.
(Signed) WOODROW WILSON,
By the President
ROBERT LANSING,