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-PROSPERITY TH E CAUSE OF TROUH.I.E

... Niupton, said that as long as they had a prosperous country they were going to have trouble over servants. The repeal of the Corn Laws struck a fatal blow at domestic service; Free Trade dug the grave; and free education buried it. ...

Published: Friday 15 June 1923
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 56 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

WILLING TO FIGHT ON

... showed that It meant business and undertook this task in the spirit in which Cobden and Bright undertook the fight for the Corn Laws, they would win. Well, said Mr. Lloyd.Ciiebege; amidst applause. I am 6.3, and I am willing to go on until I drop. *You ...

Published: Monday 25 January 1926
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 215 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE CALL 60 YEARS AGO

... them that all popular agitations in the past, such as Catholic emancipation, the abolition of slavery, the repeal of the Corn Laws, Home Rule, and even the beginning of the suffrage movement itself had all taken many years before the results were achieved ...

Published: Friday 09 March 1928
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 309 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FROTHBLOWERS ANTHEM. By Capt. W. H. Williams (Liberal Candidate, Aberavon

... the Corn Laws started, it was said that to repeal those laws would mean the economic ruin of Britain, would result in the starvation of the town-dwellers, and would! strike a fatal blow at the agricultural industry of our own country. But the Corn Laws ...

Published: Saturday 12 February 1927
Newspaper: Prestatyn Weekly
County: Denbighshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 809 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Local Lore. Devil's Bridge and District. GLEANINGS FROM THE PAST. (Coati)

... decaying industries, the growing of corn is another example. Before the Repeal of the Corn Laws enough corn, —oats and barley chiedy—had to be grown by the local tamers to supply the district. This , accounts for the three corn-miljs of that ...

Published: Thursday 28 September 1922
Newspaper: Welsh Gazette
County: Cardiganshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 558 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

GOOD PROGRESS AT

... reconcile the interests of those who live in towns, which has been the main aim of every statesman since the repeal of the Corn Laws. If he carries out his intention we shall be as delighted as we shall be asiopishcd. ...

Published: Thursday 24 January 1924
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 360 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE FLIGHT OF LHITISH AORICI-LTURE

... THE FLIGHT OF LHITISH AORICI-LTURE. It used to be said that the rains of the summer of rained away the Corn Laws. Will anything be rained away by the rains of the summer of 1V27? will depend on the weather of the next tew weeks. Serious damage has already ...

Published: Thursday 01 September 1927
Newspaper: Welsh Gazette
County: Cardiganshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 252 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GLAMORGAN FARMERS WITH DIVERGENT VIEWS

... went to the town was that agricultural work did not pay. The decline of amble land could be traced to the repeal of the Corn Laws Speaking on the subject of agriculture education, J. James suggested that the Glamorgan Agricultural Committee should be ...

Published: Monday 29 March 1926
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 387 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Die-Hard Opposition

... opposed the extension of the franchise, they opposed the de% elopment of the coalfields, they opposed the Repeal of the Corn Laws, they opposed Old Age. Pensions, they opposed Health Insurance s and Local Government. They oppose the Liberal Land Proposals ...

Published: Saturday 04 December 1926
Newspaper: Prestatyn Weekly
County: Denbighshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 321 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

PLOUGHLAND FARMING

... industry in the country is suffering, and although there is no fear that there will be a recourse to the methods of the old Corn Laws there is no reason why something should not be done by the Government to foster an interest in what is the oldest and still ...

Published: Thursday 01 November 1923
Newspaper: North Wales Weekly News
County: Denbighshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 574 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

111011 RATES AND INDUSTRY

... liiesteg and neighbourhood, agrienTlure and weaving. The one was reduced to a shadow of former importance by the Repeal of the Corn Laws and the other was knocked out altogether Iv the Lancashire spinning jenny. But wWI the extension of the coal trade factories ...

Published: Friday 27 November 1925
Newspaper: Glamorgan Advertiser
County: Mid Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 626 | Page: 6 | Tags: none