2206 rRooLAMAr1oNs, mos. miles west of tidewater by the Indian haunted wilderness, have been transformed into the mightiest republic which the world has ever seen. Its domains stretch across the continent from one to the other of the two greatest oceans, and it exercises dominion al1ke_in the arctic . and tropic realms. The growth in wealth and population has surpassed even the growth in territory. Nowhere else in the world is the average of individual comfort and material well—being as high as in our fortunate land. For the very reason that in material we11—being we have thus abounded, we owe it to the Almighty to show equal progress in moral and spiritual things. With a nation, as with the in ividuals who make up a nation, material well-being is an indispensable foundation. But the foundation avails nothing by itself. That life is wasted, and worse than wasted, which is spend in piling, heap upon hea , those things which minister merely to the pleasure of the body andp to the power that rests only on wealth. Upon material wellbeing as a foundation must be raised the structure of the lofty life of the spirit, if this Nation is properly to fulfil its great mission and to accomplish all that we so ardently hope and desire. The things of the body are good; the things of the intellect better; the best of all are the things of the soul; for,'in the nation as in the individual, in the long run it is character that counts. Let us therefore as a people set our faces resolutely against evil, and with broad charity, with kindliness and good-will toward all men, but with unflinching determination to smite down wrong, strive with all the strength that is given us for righteousness in public and in private life. _ wguydgg, 1% 6% - Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United m apart ,,5 ,, ,;,,3 States, do set apart Thursday, the 26th day of November, next, as a
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- °"“l “’”“"°· day of general thanksgiving and prayer, and on that day I recommend that the people 'shall cease from their daily work, and. in their
homes or in their churches, meet devoutly to thank the Almighty for the many and great blessings they have received in the past, and to pray that they may be given the strength so to order their lives as to deserve a continuation of these blessings in the future. IN WITNESS WVHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be ailixt. Done at the City of WVashington this thirty-first day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and A [sein.,] eight and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third. Tmzonoiun Roosnvmzr By the President: Atvmr A. Anza ` Acting Secretary of State. N¤*·¤¤¤;§4g§¤§_ Br run PRESIDENT or THE UNITED Srarms or Ammuca A PROCLAMATION _top1I:- Nmomr For- WHEREAS, the public lands in the State of Florida, which are Pm,,,bh_ hereinafter indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it a pears . that the pnblic good would e promoted by utilizing said lands as n. National orest; ,,§gf}_°}*°' F °*°*°· Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section v¤u¤,p.nm. twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, "An Act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes/’ do proclaim that there are hereby
