| Show I CALIFORNIA ix THE CABiNET I California is ambitious to have a place in the cabfKgt jwe trust her ambition will be gratified The Pacific coast has I never been represented in the cabinet and it deserves to be I it were I would serve to draw more attention tots I to-ts needs and its capacities and capabilities capa-bilities Not the most ardent westerner j Iin I the world would claim that the Pacific Pa-cific coast has the same importance that the Atlantic coast has but it has a great importance and it is growing greater each day And for this reason it deserves cabinet recognition I Great Britain is recognizing the great and growing importance of her Pacific coast possessions and is developing them Already a magnificent line of steamers has been established between Victoria and Japan anti China That is wise on her part The establishment of that line of steamers means that J England recognizes as all the world is fast beginning to recognize that the worlds next great commercial and industrial in-dustrial development will be in the j I orient and in eastern Russia No na I ton is so favorably situated to profit I by that coming development as the I United States China Is not unfriendly to us notwithstanding all our Chinese exclusion laws while Russia is friendly I For these reasons and many others thq Pacific coast should be represented in the cabinet Naturally any selection would come from California rather than from Oregon and Washington As has been said the Pacific coast has never had a representative in the cabinet i cab-inet I is true that the west has had I representatives in the cabinet Senator H I Teller was secretary of the Interior In-terior under President Arthur and the west has a representativg in Mr Clevelands cabin t in the person per-son of Secretary ofl Agriculture Morton Both have honored th west but what is wanted now and whl hal h-al western people will hope that Presi dentelect McKinley will give is a Pacific Pa-cific coast man in the cabinet The best interests of the whole country demand that there should be one there |
