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"So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced."

Joseph Hume, Scottish Scientist

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"So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced."

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"So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced."

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"Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot."

"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."

"We ought, therefore, to lessen the price of food to our manufacturers, and place them more on a level with the manufacturers who have cheaper food, and also much lighter taxation."

"Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed."

"Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials."

"I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom."

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