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... I have never been one who believed that the repeal of the Corn Laws would throw an acre of land out of cultivation. (RICHARD COBDEN, 1843). 1909, Practical Experience—There are now over 3,000,000 acres less of Wheat under cultivation:lir Great Britain ...
... stupidity—to advocate a re-enactment of the Corn Laws. They are wise in their generation. They .wish to save their lives and property from that unseen underground mob force, which is all the stronger for its concealment Law aid Justice. My poet. friend Herman ...
... hare had an analogous system before in the corn laws enacted and 182 ft, providing .‘tiding scale of duties, which hi I pric rose prices fell ami the law*. Tailed to achieve the objects they were ostensibly designed for. The cardinal fallacy of the bounty ...
... TREE To-day memorable sad ia thoaanaJs crogroM. It tbs danirtrssry, tbs S7th, of the repssl the Corn Laws. Joyo*xsnese rang through the country when the shackle* fell from the food tho people. Nobody rejoiced more than oar owp. townspeople st the breaking ...
... tural emiloyment For a veneration before anti after the repeal of the Corn Laws. Britain's development would naturally attract labour from tho countryside, bat to-ti y there are in out 1 towas thousands of workers who would gladly go back to the land ...
... a famous in the House of Lord:, said that he had heard of many mad things but, before Gad, the idea of the repeal of the Corn Laws was the maddest he had ever {ward of. Well, if you substitute for die word repeal the word re-easctment you hare ...
... No. 186. The itio.Corn lau asita• lion attained it, end in 1816. II hat Liverpool men a ere I onne, ter( it .4nswer.— Repeal of the Corn Lau.. Between 183 and 1841 there seas ceatinual and ,trong agitation for the repeal of the Corn LIISIS, and men of ...
... quantity of rain, for in the summer and autumn of 1845, the year preceding that in which the Corn Laws were repealed, there was so much wet wet weather that the hay and corn harvests were practically .destroyed, and the distress which prevailed in the succeeding ...
... (applause). The Corn Laws were passed for other purpose than to MAINTAIN THE RENTS OF LANDLORDS and the profile the landowners (applause). They were politied contrivances obtain increased rent*. Lord Liverpool, in introducing the Corn Laws, said that the ...
... been taught their, politics through their religion. An admirer though he was of the abolition of the Corn Laws, he was glad it was not the Corn Laws, but religious liberty that brought Wales into politics. The nation whose politics were based on principle ...
... Reformers. The abolition of the Corn Laws was not carried Cobden'e speeches. It was carried by the Irish famine, and what the Irish famine did for the Corn Laws two had winters would do for the cause of Fiscal Reform/’—Mr. Ronar Law, after a ...
... Free Trade, to refer to the part which My. Bright played in the struggle for the repeal of the Corn Laws. At the ‘time when the excitement about the Corn Laws was at its height there were many amusing l‘squibs and jingle poems launched upon the world, and ...