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... THE OLD CORN LAWS. IN the days just preview to the final a wl successful assail% upon the Corn Laws, there wars read in the House of Commons some linos by ono of its members, beadedDlED Or STARVATION—Coroner's Inquest. Mr Famine on my way Prowling for ...
... The Abolition of the Corn Lows la the early Victorian years an agitation fo.. the repeal of the Corn Laws commenced and was carried on with vigour and everinercasing force till 1846, when the policy of Free Trade triumphed. Over the question the two political ...
... and Selkirk (with Photo). World's Missionary Delegates in Selkirk. An Appreciation of Rev William Perry. Tom ones on the Corn Laws. The Police and Motor Cars — St Boswelis An Unseeml | Disturbance in Selkirk Kirk Border Bowling Tournament. Cricket Jottings ...
... had grown which bad not known the horror of the days before the repeal of the Corn Laws. What was Protection but the spectre scarcity ? Before the repeal of the Corn Laws there were hcrrible stories of men dying and found dead at their rooms in the ...
... It meant that the House of Lords was composed of the same class of men who passed the Corn Laws. To-day, if they had the chance, the Peers would re-enact the Corn Laws and reproduce the old regime of starvation. It may be taken as a certainty that if the ...
... Causes Failure. U. Tariff Measures of Huskisson sod Peel The Anti Corn-Law League. 12. He]teal of the Corn Laws. Gladstone’s Budgets. 15. Industrial ami Agricultural Proe|>erity. 1850-70. 14 Individualism and Collectivism. 15. “New Model’* Unionism. ...
... had grown up which had not known the horror of the days before the repeal of the Corn Laws. What was protection but the spectre of scarcity? Before the repeal of the Corn Laws there were horrible stories of men dying and found dead at their rooms in the ...
... for which ho paid 20/-, or 4/- a stone, and carried it home to Deanbumhaugh on his back. Of course, after the repeal the Corn Laws this became needless work. The ark was demolished, and so far as roy grandfather was concerned, his occupation was gone. ...
... ideas they passed what were known as the Navigation Laws, and the Corn Acts. From their modern schoolboy experience they had come to have rather hard and fast ideas of what these laws were. The Corn Laws were passed to reasonably protect, ...
... country. In 1842 Sir Robert Peel took off or reduced the duties on over 700 articles. In 1816 followed the repeal of the Corn Laws, and between 1846 and 1860 :he remaining protective ditties were removed. Thus the years from 1842 to 1860 form a transition ...
... for justice bet mercy. The w of the country—your own and your children's weliare demands that you vote for justice. The Corn Laws of long ago considered not the starving, the famishing women. Vote far the champion of Free Trade—The Hon. A. 0. Mostar, ...
... reaching Selkirk (writes our ancient scribe) that the Corn Laws passed the House of Lords and received the ©ucen’s sanction, Davie Hume, the town-crier, was re- quested to inform the inhabitants that ‘cheap corn, bread, and meal might be had otf Robert Peel.” ...