Joseph Hume
Joseph Hume
Joseph Hume FRSwas a Scottish doctor and Radical MP, born in Montrose, Angus...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth22 January 1777
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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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So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced.
produces refusal
Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.
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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.
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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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Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods by which we pay for these imports.
england entirely export improvement people
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.
country believe skills
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.
people giving unemployed
Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.
law might able
If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.
law corn interest
I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest.
land spots produce
Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.
house reason should
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.
country want demand
Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.