Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-14
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VIII Mckinley appoint Banker Cor
nclius n. Bliss, of Wall street, Secre-
tary of the Treasury? All me proph-
cts are stating the Wall streeter Tor
this most important Office, and the an
nouncements to this effect have taken
on a semi-omcial air.
Without making a personal fight on
the able treasurer of the Republican
campaign committee, the Washington
Post, which has been Independent
in the campaign, enters a
vigorous protest against any
cabinet which will place the treas
ury department of the government I'M
der the control Of New York. The Post,
however. does not restrict its opposi-
ton to the great metropolis alone, but
includes the entire stretch Of country
east Of the Allegheny mountains.
The stand which the Washington
Post takes in this matter is not ground
ed upon political reasons. 1t has no
reference whatever TO the question of
policy and is based solely upon the
idea that the treasury department
should be as far removed as possible
from the influence and control of the
money power. Says The Post in de-
filming it's attitude:
The mere fact that New york's inter
est i'm the government of the nation re-
icrs exclusively 90 the treasury depart
mcnt is not 90 valid and CONVINCING rea-
son why New York should Toe given con-
troll of that department. Quite Che con-
trIry. AS We s.e the matter 10 should be
au uuansworabie reason for giving the
portfolio TO 90 Western man. There Is
something Indecent i'm the CndlsEuiSed
cagernCSs or New York ON this point.
Either the average New Yorker thinks
IS capable OF ddmnlsterirS the nation $
finances. or he holds that New York
should have place for the local profit
there rs iu it. Take which alternative YOU
York is conclusive. The treasury should
Doe administered for the benefit of the
whole COuntry-nQt Tor that OF Wall
strickland the control OF that depart
mont of the government should Ice con-
hdei to some one who realizes the exist
euc- of % territory and u population west
of the Hudson river
our countiOn is that no Eastern man,
least of an New Yorker should
Doe made Secretary of the Treasury. The
great bulk of the population of this coun-
Try, it's most potent forces Of enterprise
and progress, it's trucst patriotism and its
deepest devotion to American principles
and institutions. are 10 be found in the
West. New York S supremacy in financial
matters is a piece of unadulterated iusO-
leuCc. It's claim on any other ground is
subject FOR contemptuOus ridiCule. The
country wants its treasury operated for
the benefit Of the United States. The
country is tired and ashamed of having It's
policy dictated and shaped i'm London.
There are numbers of capable finauCiers
I'm the West who think the United States
good enough for them. and who will not
care whether the Rothschlds approve or
disapprove of their course.
The language Of the foregoing edei-
torial is vigorous and TO the point
while the spirit which it breathes is
purely American. Although The Post
was not in line with the advocates Of
bimetallism in the late campaign, it
cordially agrees with them in the dec
Iaration that the money power should
not control our legislation and that
American finance should be independ-
ent or British manipulation.