... The Corn Laws and Food Prices. Mr. Chamberlain stated at Birmingham, and challenged its refutation, that it was a mistake say that the repeal of the Corn Laws produced immediately any reduction in the price of bread. In proof of this statement, he pointed ...

... was nothing beside the misery and destitution which prevailed when the* Corn Laws were in existence. In the new Tariff Reform the first step was the re-enactment of the Corn Laws. ...

... THE BRITISH FARMER After the repeal of the Corn Laws, and for the succeeding half-century, when wheat began to pour into England'from Russia, Hungary, the Lnited States, California, and other countries, and prices fell lower and lower, Hntish landlords ...

... reminded the members of the Free Trade Conference at the Caxton Hall this afternoon that he was born before Peel repealed the Corn Laws. His speech, however much one may have disagreed with it economically and politically, was an amazing achievement for a man ...

... been taught their politics through their religion. An admirer though he was of + he abolition of the com laws, he was glad it was not the corn laws, but religious liberty that brought Wales into politics. The nation whose politics were based upon principle ...

... swell and creating in them love for garish finery and Imperialistic trappings. Protection would bring back the dark days the Corn Laws, and in even more iniquitous form. A BRADFORD DEBATE ...

... contrasted the conditions the present day with those of the days of vxjbden and Bright in their struggles for the repeal of the Corn Laws, and also contrasted the conditions Free Trade England with Protected Germany. There were factories, he said, in Germany ...

... trade with Canada would compensate her for the suffering that would entailed upon her people by the partial resurrection the Corn Laws, or for the political disaffection to which hunger would give rise. Besides, it would not be long until Canada returned to ...

... W. Clough, the Liberal candidate for Skipton Division. Mr. C. Weather head, veteran Free Trader, told how under the old Corn Laws a native of Silsdetn when he was married hod bought a peak of meal and stone of flour, and this cost 21s. The man was at ...

... a former year rained away the Corn Laws, so, he thought, the rain this year would probably prevent people putting the Corn Laws on again. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) We could now rejoice in having supplies of food corning to us from all seas, ...

... on December 27, when Roger Dataller, novelist, dramatist and ex coal miner, broadcasts a talk about Ebenezer Elliott, the Corn Law Rhymer. This talk will be the first of a new series° r^ her revival of an old series— Northern Portrait Gallery. consisting ...

... finished at the Franco-Prussian War as far we were concerned. Economics, of course, apart from a little instruction about the Corn Laws and the Factory Acts, were not taught at all. consequently left school with few prizes and several certificates, hut no knowledge ...