A vindication of the rights of British landowners, farmers, and labourers, against the claims of the cotton capitalists to a free trade in cornHatchard and Son, 1839 - 48 páginas |
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100 quarters Adam Smith advance advantage agricultural capital agricultural produce agriculturists amount average Bank Bank of England bread British bushels cause cent consequence consume consumption Corn Laws cost cultivation currency dear demand diminished duce economists effect employed employment enable England English labour exchange existing expenditure exporting manufacturers extent facturing fall farmers fixed duty foreign corn foreign market free trade gold greater import increase industry interest Ireland labouring classes land landlords landowners Lord Chatham machinery Majesty's Government Manchester manu manufac manufacturing capital manufacturing capitalists millions obtain Odessa operatives poor poor law population present price of corn principles proportion protection purchase quantity quarters of corn question raised rate of profit raw material raw produce reduced rent repeal rise Russia shillings soil supply surplus taxes tion trade in corn value of agricultural value of money wages wealth wheat whilst whole yards of cloth
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Página 29 - States for about 3s. an acre, though, at the period of the purchse, there was scarcely a Christian inhabitant throughout the whole district. In 1821, however, the population of the State of Ohio amounted to 500,000 souls; since that period, hundreds of thousands have passed into other new states, founded still further westward; and now throughout the vast regions of the Ohio, the Wabash, the Missouri, and Mississippi, cultivation is spreading with miraculous rapidity. Here, there is a market in which,...
Página 37 - But cheap corn was brought from Ireland and other places; increasing wealth and population created an intense and extensive demand for those agricultural luxuries, which, not entering into the subsistence of farm labourers, are not expended in reproducing themselves ; and the consequence has been, that what was the barren moor, now bears crops of great value, and pays higher rents than the most fertile corn lands in England.
Página 59 - ... the inferior soils of this country for the purpose of applying it to the rich but unprofitable wastes of Poland : still we should hesitate ; we should remember with pain the cheerful, smiling prospects which were thus to be obscured ; we should view with regret cultivation receding from the hill-top, which it has climbed under the influence of protection, and from which it surveys with joy the progress of successful toil...
Página 14 - I have no hesitation in saying," — so Sir Robert Peel told the house — " that unless the existence of the corn law can be shown to be consistent, not only with the prosperity of agriculture and the maintenance of the landlord's interest, but also with the protection and the maintenance of the general interests of the country, and especially with the improvement of the condition of the labouring class, the corn law is practically at an end.
Página 60 - ... of manufacturing prosperity, but concurrently with its wonderful advancement. If you had called on us to abandon this protection with all the authority of an united administration, with the exhibition of superior sagacity, and triumphant reasoning, we should have been deaf to your appeal...
Página 6 - ... hastily condemn the worthy citizens of Frankfort for thus forgetting, in the pursuits of the merchant and money speculator, what the politician might, perhaps, hold to be the interest of their common country ; or, at least, before pronouncing his doom on their imagined selfishness, let him study the port of London, or Liverpool, or Bristol, and discover, if he can, a purer foundation for English mercantile patriotism.
Página 60 - ... manufacturing towns connected by railways, intersecting the abandoned tracts which it was no longer profitable to cultivate — we should not forget, amid all these presages of complete happiness, that it has been under the influence of protection to agriculture, continued for two hundred years, that the fen has been drained, the wild heath reclaimed, the health of a whole people improved, their life prolonged, and all this not at the expense of manufacturing prosperity, but concurrently with...
Página 28 - ... she now enjoys, would constrain Russia to lower her tariff in favour of our manufactured goods. We know, by repeated experience, that the Russian government, despotic though it be, dare not offend the great proprietors of the soil by risking that export trade to England, upon which their revenue principally depends. On one occasion, when the autocrat interdicted the exportation of hemp, and other naval stores to England, he paid for his temerity the forfeit of his life. And at a later period,...
Página 4 - The first operation is to increase the value of money ; with the increased value of money there is less facility obtained by the commercial public in the discount of their paper ; that naturally tends to limit transactions, and to the reduction of prices ; the reduction . of prices will so far alter our situation with foreign countries, that it will be no longer an object to import, but the advantage will rather be upon the export ; the gold and silver will then come back into the country, and rectify...