"There is abundant proof that the opening of……" — Joseph Hume
"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 market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market."
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Joseph Hume
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22 Quotes by Joseph Hume
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Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.
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If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a…
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I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to…
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Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.
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What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady and for this reason I did,…
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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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I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed…
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I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from…
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I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches…
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Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure…
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The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest…
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Scotland is a great country and many wonderful things have come out of this country, however England gets the glory.
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