LET US BE THANKFUL

Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 1902.

Let us be thankful first of all for one great right:

The right, when dissatisfied, to SAY that we are dissatisfied,
and to try to make things better.

Let us be thankful that every man--with few exceptions--has a
holiday to-day.

However bad our national affairs may seem, let us be thankful
they are no worse. And above all let us be thankful that we have
the power and the constitutional right to change things, just as
soon as we become wise enough to use our ballots. ----

Let us be devoutly thankful for the PUBLIC SCHOOLS, for the fact
that every child is taught to read and encouraged to think. The
nation now declares that a child has a right to food for the
mind, as long as the child behaves properly. We are not so far
from the day when human decency will declare that every child and
every human being has a right to food for the BODY also, as long
as they behave, and are ready for honest work. Let us be
thankful for the constantly growing recognition of human rights.


The workingmen of America are better paid than they have ever
been before. More of them than ever are at work, and the unions