We close with an extract from the " Record Herald" apropos of the appearance of the' new President's Thanksgiving proclamation:—
There is one cause of national thanksgiving arising out of the assassination of a President "so loved and honoured" as William McKinley to which his successor could not refer, but which the people should remember when they give thanks "to the Giver of all good for the countless blessings of our national life." Greater cause for thanksgiving than peace and plenty, than national prosperity and intellectual uplifting is to be found in the fact that the republic can come through the shock and horror of such a calamity as the murder of its chief magistrate without a jar or tremor in the institution of popular Government at which the anarchist's crime was aimed, Tt was a terrible price to pay for the assurance of the stability of government by the people—a sacrifice they would on no account suffer—one against which they are hound to guard by all the resources of self-perpetuating law and liberty, but being paid, our people through their grief and tears can face the future with deep thankfulness in their hearts that it is not in the power of benighted malignity or folly to strike at the vitality of our government through its elected head.
After such a demonstration there is less reason than ever for the propaganda of anarchy in the United States of America. The wicked, cruel death of President. Mc-Kinley has written futile as well as criminal upon the theories and practices of those who would reform the republic by deeds of violence.
Thus out of the nation's still green sorrow springs the greatest reason for national thankfulness.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.