Joseph Hume
Joseph Hume
Joseph Hume FRSwas a Scottish doctor and Radical MP, born in Montrose, Angus...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth22 January 1777
corn port british
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.
law class kingdoms
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.
peculiar protection burden
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.
agriculture giving branches
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.
country law land
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.
world corn britain
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.
country scotland england
Scotland is a great country and many wonderful things have come out of this country, however England gets the glory.
country levels proportion
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.
england raw-materials materials
Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.