Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1901 — THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION.

President Roosevelt Designates November 28 as the Day to Observe.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S first Thanksgiving proclamation is as follows: “By the President of the United States of America: 1 “A proclamation—The season is nigh when, according to the time hallowed custom of our people, the President appoints a day as the special occasion for praise and thanksgiving to God. “This Thanksgiving finds the people still bowed with sorrow for the death of a great and good President. We mourn President McKinley because we so loved and honored him; and the manner of his ; death should awaken in the breasts of 1 our people a keen anxiety for the country and at the same time a resolute purposo not to be driven by any calamity from the path of strong, orderly, popular lib- - erty, which, as a nation, we have thus far safely trod, yet in spite of this great

disaster it is nevertheless true that no people on earth have such abundant cause for thanksgiving as we have. The past year in particular has been one of peace arid plenty. We have px-ospeTed in things material and have been able to work for our own uplifting in things intellectual and spiritual. “Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us: and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips and shows itself in deeds. “We can best prove our thankfulness to the Almighty by the way in which, on this earth, and at this time each of us does his duty to his fellow-mqn. “Now, therefore, I, Theodore Rooseyelt, President of the United States, dohereby designate as a day of general thanksgiving, Thursday, the 28th day of this present November, and do recommend that throughout the land the people ceasefrom their wonted operations and at their several homes and places of* worship, reverently thank the Giver of all good for the countless blessings of our national life. In witness hereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. “Done at the city of Washington, this second day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and one, and of the independence of the United States, the 126th. “THEODORE ROOSEVELT. “By the President: JOHN HAY, Secretary of State.”

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.