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“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.” quote by Joseph Hume — Download Open 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

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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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