Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-11-26
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
Gov. Craig Says Our Nation Blessed
Above all Others.

E1alelgnS M u, NOV. R.-Declar1ng
that the United States has been bless
ed above all nations, and calling on
the people Of North Carolina to give
thanks th5s year more ferventIy than
ever before, Governor Locke Craig has
issued proclamation, setting aside
THURSDAY, November 26, as Thanks
giving Day. In his proclamation,
Governor Craig calls attention to the
sutfeFlng of the people in the Euro
pean countries, contrasting it with the
prosperity and peace enjoyed by the
people ofthe state to assemble in their
houses. Of worship on Thanks giving
Day, to give proper thanks to God for
the many blessings conferred on this
land
The Proclamation.
The governors proclamation fol-
lows:
Above all the nations we have been
blessed. Throughout the wide do
main of our country peace presides-in
harvest fields and in teeming cities.
industry protested and encouraged
by laws. is triumphant, and plenty has
been decreed as the reward of labor.
The destiny of the republic is unz
folding in grander revelation, and bet
ter opportunities are opening to all
her citizens in this day of altruistic
awakening, For us God has ordained
order, and will ordain righteousness.
that from material progress there
there shall come moral progress and
q higher social development.
America is more than ever tn,
refuge for the oppressed She offers
to. the worthy stricken people of Eu-
rope homes protected from the raw
ages of war, where life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness are guaran-
teed to all.
In the countries across the Atlant-
ic, the destruction, and suffering, and
sorrow of war, are supreme In Eu-
rope, Asia and Africa fire and sword
constitute the rule, and death and
desolation reign in the sets of the
Ialrest civilizations. AS of old, in ho-
rla Rachel weeps for her children,
End can not be comforted.
Now, therefore, 1, Locke Craig, gov
ernor of the state Of North Carolina,
IN obedience ito the custom establishx
ed by our L 8 5. AID 81 -.sceortla
with the proclamation of the president
of the United States, do proclaim:
Thursday, the twenty-sixth day of
November, day of Thanksgiving and
dedication.
II call upon all people to observe
this day, to assemble in their usual
places of worship, and in reverence
to give thanks to the Almighty for the
blessings vouchsafed to us, and to
pray that the power of faith and
righteousness may be quickened in
this land, and that in all lands the
reign of the Prince of Peace shall be
restored.
.''I call the people to the realization
of their obligation as a state and as a
nation, to purify our principles, emo
tle our national ambitions, to make
this people great and strong, not for
aggression and conquest, but for the
peace of the world, giving to us the
glorious prerogative of leading all ma
tiOns to juster laws, to more humane
policies, to sincerer friendship, to ra-
tional constituted civil liberty, and to
universal Christian brotherhood to
exemplify the strength and benef1-
cence of a. government based upon
moral power rather than military
force, and to send this message of God
to the uttermost parts of the earth for
the redemption of men,