Article November 8, 1913 Issue

Thanksgiving Proclamation

Woodrow Wilson with contributions from W. J. Bryan

The Christian Science Monitor

President Wilson , on Thursday, Oct. 23, issued his first proclamation as President of the United States, as follows:—

"The season is at hand in which it has been our long respected custom as a people to turn in praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God for His manifold mercies and blessings to us as a nation. The year that has just passed has been marked in a peculiar degree by manifestations of His gracious and beneficent providence. We have not only had peace throughout our own borders and with the nations of the world, but that peace has been brightened by constantly multiplying evidence of genuine friendship, of mutual sympathy and understanding and of the happy operation of many elevating influences both of ideal and of practise.

"The nation has been not only prosperous, but has proved its capacity to take calm council amid the rapid movement of affairs and deal with its own life in a spirit of candor, righteousness and comity. We have seen the practical completion of a great work at the isthmus of Panama which not only exemplifies the nation's abundant resources to accomplish what it will and the distinguished skill and capacity of its public servants, but also promises the beginning of a new age of new contrasts, new neighborhoods, new sympathies, new bonds and new achievements of cooperation and peace.

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