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Show THE WEST AND THE CABINET. Two diapAtchea CArne the aarae day, one saying say-ing that a senator from Washington had been nrgina; rreaident-eleet Wilson to give . to aome western man tha secretaryship of the interior, but that Mr. Wilson thought, to be aura that no prejudice were attached to the appointee, it was better not to have that appointee western man. We hope that ia not true, because it i too narrow view for a president to take, especially inasmuch aa every eastern man ia prejudiced. They have been taught by blatherskite apeakrrs for the lant three or four yeara that what of wealth the native, unexplored west contain is the property of the whole nation. Thia ia a reversal of tha policy of the agea; beeauae all of th eAat waa run over and when a man found valuable deposit or any other valuable val-uable aaeet, it waa hi. And if tha policy ia adhered ad-hered to, to hold that th United State, aa Mr. Fisher holda, ahould own and control auc.h thing aa tha mine, the foreata, th water power and dosen other thing, why. the growth of the west will be stunted, because most of these things' require re-quire large capital to open them, and the government govern-ment will have to become a kind .of paternal guardian for the whole country, and use the money of tha taxpayer to develop these treasures treas-ures or they will lie still. For instance, juat now a war ia on between the government and the Southern Pacific railroad in regard to certain supposed to be oil landa. If the government wina and adheres to its policy to only leaae those , lands, not sell them, there will be no more oil wells fonnd, because the truth ia that not. one trial in one hundred ia a auccess in boring for oil. It ia the aame way with coal mines. Coal mine, aa a rale, are not opened and ready for market short of a hundred thousand dollar each, and with the reservation cloaed over coal fields, the only reault will be that those who have titles to coal fields snd are working them will liave a monopoly, which the government ia seeking seek-ing so hard to destroy. I a regard to the aecretaryship of the interior, the aame day the dispatch came that Mr, Wilson was opposed to a' western man, there earns ' another an-other that the frienda of J. T. Hill of the Northern North-ern Pacific and the Great Northern wanted him s pointed. For that we can only aay that were the honor to be, bestowed upon him, he would shed more honor on the office than the office possibly eould on him, becauae he understands tha situation in the west better than all the eastern men put to-K'-ther can, for he for the laat thirty years has been exploring the west and knowa intimately the work and the hopes of the people. And he could give mors luoid information regarding the west to Mr. Wilson today than that gentleman will get with a cabinet of eastern men in four .year. |