Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.
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Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.Joseph Hume
Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.
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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 commerce.
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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.
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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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