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Joseph Hume

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.

– Joseph Hume

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 in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries.

– Joseph Hume

Joseph Hume

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

– Joseph Hume

Joseph Hume

Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods by which we pay for these imports.

– Joseph Hume

Joseph Hume

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.

– Joseph Hume

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

Joseph Hume

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.

– Joseph Hume

Joseph Hume

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.

– Joseph Hume

Joseph Hume

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

– Joseph Hume

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

Joseph Hume

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

– Joseph Hume

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 course which I would now recommend to the House.

– Joseph Hume

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