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“It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country.” quote by Joseph Hume — Download Open image

“It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country.”

Joseph Hume

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Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

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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…

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I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed…

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Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you…

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Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can…

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What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and…

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I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or…

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I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other…

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We ought, therefore, to lessen the price of food to our manufacturers, and place them more on a level with the manufacturers who have…

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Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

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With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and happy, instead of…

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If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.

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