Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce. — Joseph Hume Demand 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… — Joseph Hume Improvement 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… — Joseph Hume Oppressed Copy Share Image
Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do -… — Joseph Hume Britain 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… — Joseph Hume Desire 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,… — Joseph Hume Farmers 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,… — Joseph Hume Agriculture 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… — Joseph Hume Class 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… — Joseph Hume Food Copy Share Image
Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us. — Joseph Hume Anxious 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,… — Joseph Hume Country 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… — Joseph Hume Able Copy Share Image
It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs… — Joseph Hume Country Copy Share Image
In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan… — Joseph Hume Britain Copy Share Image
Scotland is a great country and many wonderful things have come out of this country, however England gets the glory. — Joseph Hume Country 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… — Joseph Hume Advantage Copy Share Image
So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced. — Joseph Hume Inconvenience Copy Share Image
Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot. — Joseph Hume England Copy Share Image
Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country… — Joseph Hume Believe 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… — Joseph Hume Beneficial Copy Share Image
There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price… — Joseph Hume British Copy Share Image
