... WORK BEING UNDONE The second great issue, Sir Herbert went on, was the repeal of the Corn Laws. ...

... their pretensions in this race. The Corn Laws ITORE serious affairs, however, also occupied space one hundred years ago. . . Here is an extract from the leading article: The result of the debate on the Corn Laws will excite little surprise. But it will ...

... more rub up our history of these bad times before Mr. Bright and Mr. Cobden succeeded in persuading Parliament that the Corn Laws were an iniquitous tax. 1 wonder whether in this vast audience there are any people who have any conception of the state ...

... from Warwick. Cobden and Bright, names then as famous as Chamberlain and Simon now, stayed during the agitation over the Corn Laws; Harriet Martineau, writer and education pioneer, found - strong feminist sympathies in the Rosehill circle; Emerson loved ...

... Gloucestershire branch of the N.F.U., held at Gloucester on Saturday. Major Dorman-Smith said in 1816 the Repeal of the Corn Laws marked the beginning of the decline of agriculture, but ha sincerely hoped that 1906 would see the industry on the upward ...

... think of a Britain with slavery, with no trade unions, with no Canada and South Africa in the Empire, with n franchise, with Corn Laws still in operation, with no Factory Acta, with no minimum wage, with no national Post °Mee, with no machinery of . modern ...

... year he became the leader of the Free Trade movement in Parliament and the country, and for a number of years, before the Corn Laws were repealed, he moved resolutions to that end. • ...

... In the bottom centre the title of the picture, The Council of the Anti-Corn Law League, is inscribed. Tile picture is a reminder of the fact that the repeal of the Corn Laws brought prOsperity to a harassed nation and emancipated a hardpressed people ...

... they move? Conservatism however designated now leads back along the road by which this country travelled away from the old Corn Laws that pressed so terribly hard upon the people, and more especially the poorest. The arguments and catch-cries are brought ...

... Canada and Australia. Only meat then remains. It they get away with the rest, that will follow. Since the old days of the Corn Laws, we have never had such an infamous example of class legislation, in which at a time of exceptional poverty and distress ...

... Nobody is likely to quarrel with me if I fix the year 1146 as beginning our system of Free Trade with the abolition of the Corn Laws. May I ask L. A. L. what other name ...

... the shelter of the Corn Laws is by no means theoretical only. In the parish of Ickornshaw, from which be takes his title, there are fields bearing the marks of the plough which was drawn over them a century ago. Since the Corn Laws were repealed the land ...