All Joseph Hume Quotes
- Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us. Anxious
- If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event. Able
- I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest. Agricultural
- Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot. Artisans
- What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828,… Course
- Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce. Commodities
- There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English… Abundant
- 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… Bad
- I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a… Admit
- I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce. Agriculture
- Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will,… Artisans
- 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… Advantage
- Scotland is a great country and many wonderful things have come out of this country, however England gets the glory. Country
- Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports,… Alone
- So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced. All
- It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it… All
- 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… Corn
- Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials. All
- In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a… Any
- 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 would… England