~ PROCLAMATIONS, 1915. 1757 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 whi e we have asserted rights we have been able also to pxerform duties and exercise privileges of succour and helpfulness w `ch should serve to demonstrate our desire to make the offices of friendship the means of truly disinterested and unseliish service. Our abilityg to serve all who could avail themselves of our services in the mi t of crisis has been increased, by a acious Providence, by more and more abundant crops; our ample giiancial resources have enabled us to steady the markets of the world and facilitate necessary movements of commerce which the war might otherwise have rendered impossible; and our people have come more and more to a sober realization of the dpart they have been called u on to play in a time when all the worl is shaken by unparalleled gistresses and disasters. The extraordinary circumstances of such a time have done much to quicken our national consciousness and deepen and confdrm our confidence in the principles of eace and freedom by which we have always sought to be `dedli Out of darkness and perplexity have come firmer counselgubf policy and clearer perceptions of the essential welfare of the nation. We have rospered while other peoples were at war, but our prosperity has been vouchsafed us, we be `eve, only that we might the better perfor? the functions which war ren ered it impossible for them to e orm. · P Now, THEREFORE, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the b,,'m‘2'_§f‘{l§§;, United States of America, do hereby designate Thursda the twenty- 8¤¤•*•¤ fifth of November next as a day of thanksgivingmand prayer, and ' invite the people throughout the land to cease m their wonted occupgtions and in their several homes and places of worship render ' than to God. IN WITNESS REOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this twentieth da of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [snAL.] fifteen and oi the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fortieth. Woonaow Wmsou By the President: Roasnr Lrmsme, Secretary; of State. Br rum Prmsrnmrr or rm: UNrr·m> Srarms or Arnuuca, N°"°’¥*_Q‘•Q‘»*°‘5- A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS a state of war unhappily exists between France, Great g,y,“' $§"‘°"F,,g,,'}Q Britain, Italy and Servia on the one side and Bulgaria on the other; gg=g”§§¤i¤» ¤=¤*¥· And Whereas the United States is on terms of frrendshigifrnd amity rmmmi. with the contending powers, and with the persons inha iting their several dominions; _ And Whereas there are citizens of the United States residing within the territories or dominions of each of the said belligerents and carry- ing on commerce, trade, or other business or pursuits therein; And Whereas there are subjects of each of the said belligerents residing within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States, and c n commerce, trade, or other business or (pursuits therein; And ereas the laws and treaties of the Unite States, without interfering with the free expression of opinion and sympathy, or with the commercial manufacture or sale of arms or munitions of war,
