Once again the season of the year has come when, in accordance with the custom of our forefathers for generations past, the president appoints a day as the special occasion for all our people to give praise and thanksgiving to God.

Our natural resources are at least as great as those of any other nation.

Much has been given us from on high, and much will rightly be expected of us in return.

During the past year we have been free from famine, from pestilence, from war.

In Witness Whereof,I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt,President of the United States, do set apart Thursday, the 28th day of November, as a day for general Thanksgiving and Prayer.

A great democracy like ours, a democracy based upon the principles of orderly liberty, can be perpetuated only if in the heart of ordinary citizens there dwells a keen sense of righteousness, and justice.

The plan herein provided for governing the manner of opening these lands shall have operation and control the order in which all entries of the lands are allowed until December 20, 1907.

All persons are especially admonished from attempting to settle upon, occupy, or improve any of these lands prior to December 20, 1907, except those making entry in accordance with the terms of this Proclamation.

Any qualified person desiring to make entry of any of these lands shall execute in person within the limits of the Pierre, South Dakota, land district an affidavit showing his qualifications to enter and means of identifying him.

such of said lands as are unreserved and undisposed of shall on and after date hereof be subject to disposition under the general provisions of the homestead, townsite laws and of Sec. 2455 R.S., as amended by Act of Congress, approved…

There must be progressive legislative and administrative action for the correction of the evils which every sincere man must admit to have existed in railroad management in the past.

Let us try as a people to show the same qualities as we deal with the industrial and social problems of today that Abraham Lincoln showed when with indomitable resolution, but with a kindliness, patience, and common-sense quite as…

There can be no halt in the course we have deliberately elected to pursue, the policy of asserting the right of the Nation, so far as it has the power, to supervise and control the business use of wealth, especially in its corporate form.

For he died in the fulness of time, serving his country with entire devotion—a death that every man may well envy.

There must be vested in the Federal Government a full power of supervision and control over the railways doing interstate business.

There will be no halt in the forward movement toward a full development of this policy.

The power of the Nation must be exerted to stop crimes of cunning no less than crimes of violence.