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... OF THE CORN LAWS. He knew the depressed conditions of those times. The people were almost on the verge of st,arva.tion—(iear, hear)—and they were s 0 much distressed and punished that life was scarcely worth living. Before the repeal of the laws, a 4lb ...
... Blackpool. Mr. and Mrs. Hudson were born within a few days of each other in May, 1846, the vear notable for the Repeal of the Corn Laws and Irish Potato Famine, and _they were married at the Westgate Chapel, Burnley, in March, fifty years ago. ...
... well to back up the prayer by resolution condemning the Government’s first instalment towards the re-introduction of the Corn Laws and the unequal incidence of taxation? Faith without works counts for little. s &() § — ...
... obstacles to the success of Protection. One was the memories of the hardships endured by the poor before the repeal of the Corn Laws; the other was the active hostility of the Trade Unions and Labour Leaders of to-day. With charvacteristic hardihood, Mr ...
... by an article in which he rielates his experiences while living in this part of the country before the abolition of the Corn Laws and the introduction of Free Trade. Everyene should get a copy of next Saturday’s issue. The notices respecting the Board ...
... workman alike. Mr. Cobden, speaking on February 23th, 1842, the year before the Corn Laws were repealed, said: We are told that the object of the Repeal of the Corn Laws is to lower wages here to tie level of Continental wages. Have low wages ever proved ...
... 1 years i What an exXpieri | the vear of Trafatga Notson’s” death, whe been! Cornnna, War Ameriecar Waor, the 2 1 or the Corn Laws, P ireless wWe l‘k torful,” that vould ko Gae B 8 ~ty v had izt on ] Lram logton, o yeors b, ull i In norral “110 ,‘ thie ...
... splitting our own nation by controversial legislation, such as has not been equalled since the days of the repedl of the Corn Laws. If manufactured goods are tosbe kept at a high price by artificial means as a sop to the town workers, what is to be done ...
... speaking of the state of the country before the repeal of the Corn Laws, said it was in a desperate state of distress; work was very scarce; wages low, and food very dear. The repeal of the Corn Taws added matenially to the prosperity of this country. People ...
... the concern soon got into difficulties. Cobden had to face the fact that he must either give up the struggle against the Corn Laws and return to business or accept poverty as his future lot. He bravely chose to stick to his post of public duty. Thanks ...
... Jingoism means Protection, and if persevered inmore and more Protection, till we may see the Paper Duties, the Window Tax, the Corn Laws; and every other impost which the genius of Peel and Gladstone swept away again imposed on the shoulders of a foolish people ...
... with Free Trade. It does not, indeed, confer a benefit on the English farmer so substantial as he enjoyed under the old Corn Laws. It is a tax solely on imported wheat, which raises the market price all round, and thus enables the home producer to pocket ...