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Corn Quotes by Joseph Hume
- If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.
- I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest.
- 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…
- 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…
- Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will,…
- 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…
- 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…
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