Proclamation 1405—Thanksgiving Day, 1917
11/06/1917
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I object to and cannot approve that part of this legislation with reference to wartime prohibition.
The covenant in another portion guarantees to the members the independent control of their domestic questions.
The most dangerous thing for a bad cause is to expose it to the opinion of the world.
There is no validity in a vote, either by the council or the assembly, in which we do not concur.