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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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