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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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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.

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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.

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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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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 course which I would now recommend to the House.

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

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With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and happy, instead of our present situation in which so much distress exists - distress of our own producing.

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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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Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Scientist

Born: January 22nd, 1777

Died: February 20th, 1855

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