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Joseph Hume
Joseph Hume
Scottish Scientist
Born: Jan 22, 1777
Died: Feb 20, 1855
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I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens. Joseph Hume
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What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady; and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House. Joseph Hume
Markets Recommend Would Steady Prices Take House Course Did Moderate Which Require Should Farmers Reason Now
Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce. Joseph Hume
Other Other Countries Take Demand Countries Commodities Refusal Want Which Produce Produces Now
In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food. Joseph Hume
Food Great Country Other Great Britain Rate Proportion Higher Higher Level Price Disadvantage His Than Labours Artisan Any Any Other Country Level Britain British Consequently
Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed. Joseph Hume
Alone Better Giving Country Energy Believe Increasing Our Worse Ourselves Finding Part Prospect Employment Unemployed May Cannot Which Flatter Capital Produce Skill Exports Population Now
Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries. Joseph Hume
Great You Will Value Long Corn Other Other Countries Great Britain Those Destroy Laws Take Countries Render Employment Wages Which Little Land Measure Away Britain

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