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... those days; indeed it wae the outcome of the agitation which raged so furiously about that period for the repeal of the Corn Laws. . The present building stands upon the ground occupied by the former Free Trade Hall built upon the sight of Peterloo, and ...
... seventy years which had smaller majorities than 126 and the chief features of their work: Magjority. Worlk Done. 18417 O 79 Corn Laws Repealed, 1847-52 L 2 Repeal of Navigation Laws, 1852-7 ©C 8 Gladstone’s Great Budget. 1857-9 1, 92 India Act 1859-65 I, ...
... 1842, also the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846, when ninging of the church bells at Newchurch mnot being permissible, the inhabitants, by permission of Mr. Rober Munn, who at that time was an active member of the Amti Corn Law League, ‘and the vwner of Lolly ...
... on the other hand the cotton trade was established before the Corn Laws were repealed, that in fact Lancashire occupied a far more predominant position in the cotton trade before the Corn Laws were repealed than it does now. Such a statement might be a ...
... and the greed of the House of Lords in this respect had cost us our American colonies; they succeeded in bringing in the corn laws for the same reason, by which the poor were ground down for a period of forty years; ‘and, if the House of Lords had had ...
... be increased. (Cheers.) | lost our American Colonies because tlie land| owllerg would not pPay. The landowners got | the corn laws passed and gave us Protection and for 40 years the Brifish working man | was the most miserable in Europe, because | the ...
... staunch L_iberal. doing good work for the party in Accrington. He was a member of the local committee for the repeal of the Corn Laws. In his Unionstreet Mill two great meetings were held in 1843 against the Corn bLaws. Mr. Richard Cobden, the apostle of ...
... corn But In order to protect the farming Industry the Government introduced the Corn Laws These put high tax on imported corn thus making bread very expensive So an Anti-Corn Law League was formed with the slogan: Untax the poor man's loaf Matters came ...
... Mr. Bright, after referring 1o the Lordg action on the Reform Bill of 1832, Teferred to their action on the Repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 in the following terms — N Vgg_l, when we come to the next crisis, m 1846, the Peers did not fight for their Political ...
... were his watchwords; he believed in the doctrine ‘* For the people, by the people.” In the agitation for the repeal of the Corn Laws he took a prominent part, subscribing generously to the National funds and presiding over many local meetings. In close ...
... more rub up our history of those bad times before Mr. Bright and Mr. Cobden succeeded in persuading Parliament that the Corn Laws were an iniquitous tax. I wonder whether in this vast audience there are any people who have any conception of the state ...
... greatly desired. It is to be noted, however, L | that land cultivation has gone down 50 per | cent. since the repeal of the Corn Laws. ' May I give here my definition of Tariffi Re| form:—(l.) Increase revenue; (2) Lighten the | burden of taxation; (3) increase ...