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.
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I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest.Joseph Hume
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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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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Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.
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In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.
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