The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-10-29
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCi AMATION.

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! at has long been the honored GUS
| tom 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 q close since we last OBJ
( serveG our day of national tlanASgiv-
| ing has been, while a year Of discipline
| because OF the mighty forces Of war
and of change which have disturbed the
world, also a year of special blessing
for us.
ct has been Vouchsafed TO us to re-
main at peace, with honor ard 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 councils and shape the
hopes and purposes Of 4 day OF fear
and distress. Our people have looked
upon their own life as a nation with a
deeper comprehension, fuller re2h
cation Of their respC nsioiIities as Wen
as of their blessings. and a keener
sense OF the moral and practical sig
nificance of what their part among the
nations Of the world may como to be.
The hurtful effects of foreign war
in their own Industrial and commercial
affairs have made them feel tho more
fully and see the more dearly their
mutual interdepen upon one an
other and has stirred them to helpful
cooperation such as they have seldom
pTdcticed before. They have beer
quickened by a great moral stimula ton
their earnest pity and disinterested
sympathy for those who are suffering.
Their unmistakable ardor for peace
their readiness 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 the needy
VINO need food: the self possession
of our people amidst the most anxious
anXieties and difficulties and the stead
mess and rcsourcefullness of our bust
hes mer will serve other nations as
well as our own.
The business of the country has
been supplied with new instTrIm cutali-
ties and the commerce of the world
with new channels of srade and inter
course. The Panama canal has been
opened to the commerce of the nations.
The two continents of America have
been bound in closer ties OF friendship.
New Observation-Disclosures af internation-
al trade have been created which will
be also new Observation-Disclosures If ac-
quaintance. intercourse. and mutual
service. Never before have the people
of the United States been 50 situated
for their own advantage or the advan-
age of their neighbours or so equipped
to serve themselves and mankind.
Now THEREFORE,, [ WOODROW
WILSON, president of the United
States OF America, do hereby desig-
nate thursday. the twenty-sixth of
November next as a day Of thanks !
giving and prayer. and invite the
people Throughout the land to cease
from theeir wanted occupations and in
their several homes and places of |
wc rship render thanks to Almighty |
God.
I'm witness whereof I have here |
unto set my hand and caused the |
seal of the United States to be affixed /
Done at the City of Washington, |
his twenty-eighth day of October in |
the year of Our Lord one thousand |
niEe hundred and fourteen, and of tho |
independence of the United States of |
America the one hundred and thirty
ninth.
tSIGNED)
WOODROW WILSON.
'By the President
Robert Lansing,
Acting Secretary of State"