I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest.
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So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced.Joseph Hume
Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.
Joseph Hume
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, take the course which I would now recommend to the House.
Joseph Hume
Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries.
Joseph Hume
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
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 present situation in which so much distress exists - distress of our own producing.
Joseph Hume
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