Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-12-01 | Page 3 | Mark Twain Was with Teddy

and gave his views on thanksgiving sentiment chicago nov despatch from washington D casays Cs ays mark twain who took luncheon with president roosevelt yesterday gave the following thanksgiving sentiment every year every person in america concentrates all his thoughts upon ono thing cataloguing catalo guing his reasons for being thankful 10 the deity for the blessings conferred upon him and upon ho human race during the expiring twelve months this is well and as it should be but it Is too one sided no one ever seems to think of the deitos side of it apparently no one concerns himself to inquire how rauch or how little he has had to be thankful for during the same period we may be thankful but can that really be the case with him if he had a voice how would he regard the years results in russia doubtless the most that he cabbe thankful for is that the carnage and suffering are not as bad as they might be he will have noticed that life insurance in new york has gone tolerably rotten and the widow and orphan have had a borrow fal time of it in the hands of their chosen protectors doubtless the most he is thankful for Is that the rottenness and robberies have not been absolutely complete he has noticed aba ahe political smell ascending from new york philadelphia and sixty or seventy other municipalities has been modified a little temporarily and doubtless is thankful tor that transient reprieve ho has observed that king leopolds destruction of innocent life on the congo is not as great this year ai it was last by as much as victims because of diminishing material without doubt he himself is thankful that matters in the congo are not as irretrievably bad as they might be and that some natives still are left alive