In Great Britain The Price Of Food

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 Which, Alone, Can We Flatter Ourselves With The Prospect Of Finding Employment For That Part Of Our Population Now Unemployed.

I Will Undertake To Prove That The Present Corn Laws Have Been Detrimental To The Public, Without Being Beneficial To The Agricultural Interest.

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.

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.

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.