Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

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.

Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.

If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.

Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.