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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.