Show EX GOVERNOR AMES TALKS lie ile thinks tile the lifty fira Con congress giess via its pledges at it a recent meeting in boston ex governor ames amea gave ii a caustic criticism of tho the mckinley banff his speech excited great alarm in the ranks of tile the american protective tariff league and its secretary wrote a iatter to the ex es governor gov enior abling for an a explicit statement of tit lna views lie he lias hass replied in ill a very long iong lestur of which ri 11 tho pith in the presidential campaign of IKS the alie republican party met the tariff issue by the assertion bertion as that it intended if successful to reduce tho the surplus in the united states treasury and lettuce the revenue of the government by reducing tile tho tariff on oil imports all along the alie line but in way away as to preserve ami airi air I encourage tile the manufactures of tile the country it claimed that this reduction should bo be made by the friends of protection and not by y its enemies otherwise 10 alie t h e interests to be effected would suffer on the issue thus presented we elected a republican president and a republican house of representatives but our pledge was nias not kept in its entirety is as it should hax ha e been instead of reducing the tariff duties all along the line till e wo raised them on many manufactured goods that hall had adequate protection I 1 am tit t a republican anti and a protectionist anti and I 1 believe i thit that our revenue law should bo ho bo adjusted is as to agn give e ample protection to manufactures so as to insure good wagon to the workman and fair profit to tile the employer dut 1 to do not believe in making tho the rate of duties so high as to exclude foreign eig ril goods goodband and give a manufacturer er phenomenal profits and thereby so over dowe domestic tic product production iou as to end call in int ruinous competition or to cause that reaction which tend to the abolition of all protective laws liv s which already lirt has to io many advocates I 1 am convinced that the tariff of 1883 was in many instances too high and that tile the tariff of aiu in some of its provisions is still more el 1 burdensome than was that N winch duch it succeeded this is diio error in legislation winch which 1 wish to point out to winch which I 1 more than once called attention ioa while the measure was under consider consideration in ill the congress and I 1 believe did more to defeat the republican c an party part in 1890 through consequent cou sequent reaction than any other net act of congress during a quarter ofa of a century |