Joseph Hume Quotes

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... view

By: Joseph Hume

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... view

By: Joseph Hume

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... view

By: Joseph Hume

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... view

By: Joseph Hume

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... view

By: Joseph Hume

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

By: Joseph Hume

Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce... view

By: Joseph Hume

Our course, then, is clear.. view

By: Joseph Hume

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

By: Joseph Hume

So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced... view

By: Joseph Hume

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials... view

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What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady.. view

By: Joseph Hume

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... view

By: Joseph Hume

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... view

By: Joseph Hume

Worse there cannot be.. view

By: Joseph Hume

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... view

By: Joseph Hume

At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed... view

By: Joseph Hume

We ought, therefore, to lessen the price of food to our manufacturers, and place them more on a level with the manufacturers who have cheaper food, and also much lighter taxation... view

By: 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... view

By: Joseph Hume