Joseph Hume Quotes
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Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.
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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 which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed.
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Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.
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So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced.
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I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.
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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.
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Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.
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It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country.