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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."

Joseph Hume, Scottish Scientist

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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce."

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

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

"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."

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