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Page ix
... interest of the town - labourers to follow the fortunes of their masters , and vote for the cheap loaf . The manufacturers would get what they wanted - cheaper labour ; the operatives - an increased value of wages . For a time , then ...
... interest of the town - labourers to follow the fortunes of their masters , and vote for the cheap loaf . The manufacturers would get what they wanted - cheaper labour ; the operatives - an increased value of wages . For a time , then ...
Page xii
... interest - what has been the effect of the want of that law upon the interest itself ? Cobden complained that the corn merchants lost £ 2,000,000 . But consumers gained thereby , for none of this money left the country . Now , what is ...
... interest - what has been the effect of the want of that law upon the interest itself ? Cobden complained that the corn merchants lost £ 2,000,000 . But consumers gained thereby , for none of this money left the country . Now , what is ...
Page xii
... interest at the expense of another in their own country . In other words , all the manufacturers indiscriminately could sacrifice agriculture with very good grace . For it was shown that protection was the bane of the farmers ; that ...
... interest at the expense of another in their own country . In other words , all the manufacturers indiscriminately could sacrifice agriculture with very good grace . For it was shown that protection was the bane of the farmers ; that ...
Page xii
... interest - what has been the effect of the want of that law upon the interest itself ? Cobden complained that the corn merchants lost £ 2,000,000 . But consumers gained thereby , for none of this money left the country . Now , what is ...
... interest - what has been the effect of the want of that law upon the interest itself ? Cobden complained that the corn merchants lost £ 2,000,000 . But consumers gained thereby , for none of this money left the country . Now , what is ...
Page xiii
... interest at the expense of another in their own country . In other words , all the manufacturers indiscriminately could sacrifice agriculture with very good grace . For it was shown that protection was the bane of the farmers ; that ...
... interest at the expense of another in their own country . In other words , all the manufacturers indiscriminately could sacrifice agriculture with very good grace . For it was shown that protection was the bane of the farmers ; that ...
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abundance action agricultural labourers argued artificial demand assert Bonamy Price British manufacturer capital causation cause Chartist cheap bread cheaper Cobden commercial competition conclusion consequences consumers Corn Laws corn-growing cost of transit course Crown 8vo cultivation demand for labour depression distress duties Edition effect England existence fact factor favourable Fcap force foreign markets free imports free intercourse free-trade policy free-trade principle gain high price Huskisson increased induced industries influence intercourse in corn J. G. Lockhart John Bright labouring classes landlords manu manufac means merchants nations natural operation period political present price of bread price of corn price of wheat principle of free produce Professor profits progress prosperity protection protectionists question railway reduced reform remunerative rents repeal result Richard Cobden selfish Sir Robert Peel stimulate supply surrounding conditions system of free tendency tion trade in corn universal free trade University of Edinburgh vols wages wheat William Huskisson
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