Quotes by 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.

Country

Land

Law

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 just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.

Burden

Peculiar

Protection

I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.

Agriculture

Branches

Giving

I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest.

Corn

Interest

Law

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.

Country

Levels

Proportion

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

Land

Produce

Spots

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

Giving

People

Unemployed

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.

Corn

Port

Proof

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Quotes by 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.

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 just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.

I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.

I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest.

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.

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

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

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.

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