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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... →
So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced.
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... →
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... →
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... →
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... →
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... →
Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.
Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.
Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.
Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.
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... →
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