I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom. — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest. — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce. — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
We ought, therefore, to lessen the price of food to our manufacturers, and place them more on a level with the manufacturers who have… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us. — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and happy, instead of… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event. — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
