People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-03-12

Mckinley has made this impression IN
dellible by grouping around Mr.. Sher-
man other political magnates of the
like faith and order.
WHAT GAGE STANDS FOR.
Mr. Gage stands for antagonism to
the greenbacks, friendship to the ma
tional banks and hostility to the in
crease of the currency by silver coin
age or otherwise.
He represents the kind of bimetallism
which all the metropolitan bankers
want-the European agree
ment sort-whlch everybody knows we
cannot get.
Mr.. Bliss goes into the Presidential
family redolent of the New York Cham
Der of Commerce and the peculiar no.
tions about patriotism and government
which emanate from that unseltish re-
gion, colored in his views by his local
environment, as most of us are.
Mr.. Bliss will appear to the country
at large as an ideal representative OF
the Wall street interests. Having been
treasurer of the Mckinley campaign
fund, he. of all men knows which cor
porations contributed, and what those
corporations were promised in the way
of LEGISLATION friendly to corporate
wishes.
His going into the Cabinet will ap-
near to mean that the Mckinley AID,
ministration intends to keep faith with
the said contributors to its expenses.
Mr.: Bliss is a millionaire banker, just
as Mr.. Sherman was and Mr.. Gage is.
Gen. Alger is also millionaire, and
his views harmonic with Sherman's.
Then comes Gary, another millionaire;
then Long, of Massachusetts, attorney
for trusts and corporations. Then there
is McKenna, of California, one of LIE
land Stanford's confidential men,
known on the Pacific slope as corpor-
alton lawyer and corporation judge.
These are the strong men of the cab
met; and of the commissioner OF agr1-
culture Mr.. Wilson, it is safe to say
that he is in line with the others. 1t is
a distinctly corporation cabinet-a cab
met whose members are identified in
principle, in purse and in purpose with
the privileged classes. They not only
favor corporations and trusts and com
binations of capital, but they are q
part of the system. They are cogs in
the wheel.
CABINET AS A WHOLE.
McKinley's cabinet, therefore, is
made up of those who feast on class
legislation; those who claim that the
laws should be framed in their specia-
interest; those who preach the gospe-
of legal and political equality, but
whose practice tends to concentrate al
wealth, all privilege and all power into
the hands of a few, thus revolutioniz
ing our republic into an aristocracy
based upon wealth alone.
Even Mr. Cleveland allowed repre-
sentation to the people in the selection
of his cabinet. Gresham may not have
been an appropriate choice, but he was
honest and poor and had proved to the
corporations that he was incorruptible
He was, therefore, a man of the people
Holxe Smith was no tool of the banks
the railroads or the trusts He was {
man of the people-honest, fearless
open to the appeal of popular wants
and interests.
If Herbert was especially identified
with corporation interests, no ont
knew it then; indeed, it cannot be ever
now said that he did not go into the
cabinet honestly intending to act fol
the best interests of the people at large
Here then. were three men of Cleve
lands cabinet who seemed to be indie
pendent of corporation entanglement
and who might reasonably be expected
to guard the welfare of the masses.
The peculiar distinction of the Nc
Kinley cabinet is that nobody neet
nourish any Authorizations concerning
it. There is absolu ely no room lief
for guessing. The cabinet is a corpora
ton ca binet, and nobody can doubt it
If the trusts which put up the none.
to elect Mckinley had been asked t.
select their own preferences for the
cabinet, they could not have chosen 1
lot of men more eminently qualified t.
give them satisfaction.
MCKINLEY's PROBLEMS.
The problems which confront Mr.
Mckinley are these, mainly:
First-How to run the tariff rates VI
high enough to satisfy the manufac
turers who paid Tor his election with
out arousing the discomfort of the con
sumers, who will be compelled to pa,
higher prices for manufactured goods
Second-How to continue to spent
more money than the revenues amour
to without having to issue bonds, AM
without letting the people know tina
taxes are increased.
Third How to give the nationa
bankers new system still better thai
the present one, so that they shall hav
the sole prerogative of issuing pape
money without letting the impression
go out that this is done to enrich thos
who run national banks at the expens
of those who do not run them.
Fourth-How to fasten the gol'
standard permanently upon the coun
try and yet keep the supporters of bi
metallism in state of happy expecta