So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced. Joseph Hume Read Quote
Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods by which we pay for these imports. Joseph Hume Read Quote
At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed. Joseph Hume Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce. Joseph Hume Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce. Joseph Hume Read Quote
Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot. Joseph Hume Read Quote
There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market. Joseph Hume Read Quote
