Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-11-15
THANKSGIVING
PROCLAMATION
President Says: Give Thanks
to Almighty God for
Blessings Bestowed"

Washington.-The text Of the an.
nual Thanksgiving proclamation issued
Wednesday by President Wilson fol.
| lows:
by the president of the United
| States of America:
"a proclamation
'The season of the year has again
arrived when the people of the United
| States are accustomed to unite in CIV
ing thanks to Almighty God for the
blessings which he has conferred upon
our country during the twelve months
that have passed. A year ago our
people poured out their hearts in
praise and thanksgiving that, through
divine aid, the right was victorious
and peace had come to the nations
which had so courageously struggled
in defense of human liberty and JUS
tice. Now that the stern task is ended
and the fruits of achievement are ours,
we look forward with confidence to
the dawn of an era where the sacrifice
Of the nation will find recompense
in world at peace.
But to attain the consummation of
the great work to which the Ameri-
cans devoted their manhood and the
vast resources of the country, they
should give thanks to God and recon
secrate themselves to these principles
of right which triumphed through his
merciful goodness. Our gratitude can
find no more perfect expression than
to bulwark with loyalty and patriotism
those principles for which the. free
peoples Of the earth fought and died.
During the past year we have had
much to make US grateful. In spite
of the confusion in our economic life,
resulting from the war, we have pros
pered. Our harvests have been plen-
tiful, and of our abundance we have
been able to render succor to less |
favored nations. Our democracy re-
mains mistaken in a world torn with |
political and social unrest Our ira
ditional ideals are still our guides in |
the path Of progress and civilization.
These great blessings vouchsafed to
US, for which we devoutly give thanks, |
should arouse us to fuller sense of |
our duty to ourselves and to mankind |
to see to it that nothing we may do
shall mar the completeness Of the vic
tory which we helped to win. No |
selfish purpose animated US in becom-
ing a participant in the world war,
and with a like spirit of unselfishness
we should strive to aid by our ex-
ample and by our cooperation, reaI-9
izing the enduring welfare of all peo-
pies and in bringing into being world
ruled by friendship and good will.
Therefore, /, Woodrow Wilson,
president of the United States of
America, hereby designate Thursday,
the 9th day of November next, for
as a day of thanksgiving
and prayer by my fellow countrymen,
inviting them to cease on that date
rom their ordinary tasks and to unite
n their homes and in their several
places Of worship in ascribing praise
md thanksgiving to God, the author
If al blessings and the master of our
lestinies.
I'm witness whereof I have hereunto
et my hand and caused the seal of
he United States to be affixed.
Done in the District of Columbia
his 5th day of November, in the year
+ our Lord one thousand nine hun /
red and nineteen, and of the inde-
of the United States the one
undred and forty-fourth.
(seaD WOODROW WILSON.
'By the President: II
ROBERT LANSING,
Secretary of State"