Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-10-26
Thanksgiving Proclamation.


President Wilson last Thursday
in issuing a proclamation deslgnat-
ing Thursday, Nov. 20, as Thanks
giving day, called attention to the
fact that the United States has
been at peace while most of Europe
has been at war.
eve have been able to assert
our rights. and rights of mankind
without breach of friendship with
the great nations with whom
we had had to deal, said the presl-
dent.
The text follows:
at has long been the honored
custom of our people to turn IN the
fruitful autumn of the year IN
praise and thanksgiving to Almigh-
ty God for His many blessings and
mercies to us as nation. The year
that is now drawing to close since
we last observed our day of national
thanksgiving has been, while year
of discipline because of the mighty
forces of war and of changes which
have disturbed the world, also
year of special blessing for US.
Another year of peace has been
vouchsafed US; another year IN
which not only to take thought OF
our duty to ourselves and to mankind
but also to adjust ourselves to the
many responsibilities thrust upon
us bv a war which has involved al
most the whole of Europe. We
have been able to assert our rights
and the rights of mankind without
breach of friendship with the great
nations with whom we have had to
deal. and while we have asserted
rights, we have been able also to
perform duties and exercise prlvil-
eyes of succor and helptulness
which should serve to demonstrate
our desire to make the offices OF
friendship the means of truly disin-
terested and unselish service.
''Our ability to serve al who
could avail themselves of our ser
vices in the midst of crises, has
been increased by gracious Provl-
dence, by more and more abundant
crops; our ample financial resources
have enabled us to steady the
markets of the world and facili-
tate necessary movements OF COM
MERGE which the war might other
wise had rendered impossible; and
our people have come more and
more to sober realization of the
part they have been called upon to
play in a time when all the world
is shaken by unparalleled distresses
and disasters.
''The extraordinary circum-
stances of such time have done
much to quicken our national con-
seriousness and deepen and confirm
our confidence in the principles OF
peace and freedom by which we
have always sought to be guided.
Out of darkness and perplexities
have come frmer councils of policy
and clearer perceptions of the es-
sential welfare OF the nation. We
have prospered while other people
were at war, but our prosperity has
been vouchsafed we believe, only
that we might better perform the
functions which war rendered it
impossible for them to perform.
"Now, therefore, 1, Woodrow
Wilson, president of the United
States of America, do hereby desig-
nate Thursday, the twenty-fifth of
November, next, as day of thanks
giving and prayer, and invite the
people through 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, l have here
unto set my hand and caused the
seal of the United States to
be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington,
this twentieth day of October, in
the year of our Lord, one thousand
nine hundred and fifteen, and of the
independence of the United States
of America, one hundred and for
tieth.
ROBERT LANSING,
Secretary of State.
(Sipned) WOODROW WILSON"