The Nevada picayune., 1885-05-28
The Presidcnt Against Protection.

Prom St Louis Republican.
 Since President Cleveland con tinucs to be accused of favoring the Randall doctrine of protection; since the even more serious accu- sation of being influenced by Mir. Randall has been made against him we know of no better method of answering, no way ot more clearly yindicating him than by pointing to his own recorded words.
 Mir. Cleveland iS not man of many words, but when he has spO- ken there has been no mistaking his meaning. During he campaign his silence was golden, but in the annual message to the legislature of New York he had already ex- pressed himself in favor of d "tar, if for revenue only" in language as clear as ever was used by Col. Morrison or Mir. Carlisle In con- cluding the message he wrote:
 The state of Now York largely represents within her borders the development of every interest which makes a nation great. Proud of her place as a leader in the community of states, she fully appreciates her intimate relations to the prosperity of the c0untrs; and justly recognizing tho respcu' sibility of her position, sue recOg- nizes her policy .her laws as of first importance the freedom of com. merce from all unnecessary res trictiOns. < i;
 Surely thlS great cosntry, ccm- mitted fully to tl,e interests of com merce and all that adds to the countrv's prosperity, may well inquire how her efforts and sacil- fees have been answered; and she, of all the states, may urge that the interests thus by her protected (thc shipping intercsts) should, by the greater government admlnls- terel tor all. be fostercd fSr the benefit Of the American people. Fifty years ago, a most distinguish ed foreigner, who visited Ameri- ca and studied it's conditions and prospect, wrote:
 When I contemplate the ardor with which Americans prosecute commerce, the advantages which aid them. and the success ot their undertakings, 1 cannot hclp believ- ing that they will one day become the maritime power of the globe. They are bound to rule the seas as the Romans were to conquer the world. * <; *
 The Amerlcans now transport to their own shores nine-tentlis of the European produce which they consume, aud they also bring three-iourths of the exports of the New World to European consum. CTS. The ships of the United States fill the docks of Haver and of Liverpool; while the number ot English and French vessels to be seen in New York is comparatively small.
 We turn to the actual results reached since these words were  written with disappointment.
 In lS4O American vessels carried S2 9 per cent, of all our exports and imports: in 1850, 7l.G; in 1860, 6G }; in ITO, 3j,6 1880, l7.4 in ls,. S2, lJ.J.
 The citizens of New York, look ing beyond his state and all her efforts in the interests of commerce and national gro with will naturally inquire concerning the causes of this decadence ..of American ship ping.
 While he sternly demands of his home government the exact limita. ton of taxation by the needs of the state, he will challenge the policy that accumulates millions of use less and unnecessary surplus m the national treasury, which has been not less a tax, because 1t was indirectly but surely added to the costs of peoples life.
 Neither Mir. Morrison nor MT. Carlisle has ever voiced stronger arraignmcnt of the policy of pro. t,ctions than this, It is the we'll advised uttcrancc ofa man, who, having given the subject close ant careful attention, has reached Q conclusion by which he means to abide. It is the utterance Ot a statesman.a Democratic statesman' one whose intellect is not less sr0og thal h;s cIlc actcr is ad' irlDie.