With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and happy, instead of our present situation in which so much distress exists - distress of our own producing. — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent. — 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
