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

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.

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.

I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest.

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

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.

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.