If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.
Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us. - Joseph Hume
Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.
- Joseph Hume
Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials. - Joseph Hume
Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.
Scotland is a great country and many wonderful things have come out of this country, however England gets the glory. - Joseph Hume
Scotland is a great country and many wonderful things have come out of this country, however England gets the glory.
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… - Joseph Hume
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…
I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or… - 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…
I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and jus… - Joseph Hume
I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and jus…
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 eve… - Joseph Hume
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 eve…
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 cour… - Joseph Hume
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 cour…
Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot. - Joseph Hume
Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.
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