Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed.
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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
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
If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.
Joseph Hume
So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced.
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.
Joseph Hume
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.
Joseph Hume
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