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.

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.

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.

The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent.

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.

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