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Page xiii
... destroy the game upon his land . In short , he must do everything to spend capital , without looking ahead to see how it shall be returned to him . This was described as the essential preparation for the coming competition . he could ...
... destroy the game upon his land . In short , he must do everything to spend capital , without looking ahead to see how it shall be returned to him . This was described as the essential preparation for the coming competition . he could ...
Page 20
... destroyed , and that our one - sided free trade would remain " isolated " in the international commercial policy of the world for the period of nearly half a century , then it will be time to step aside and to permit others to portray ...
... destroyed , and that our one - sided free trade would remain " isolated " in the international commercial policy of the world for the period of nearly half a century , then it will be time to step aside and to permit others to portray ...
Page 36
... destroy them , we need not here inquire . But there can scarce be a doubt that by affording his rivals such indirect assistance ( and it has rapidly accumulated and assumed a serious magnitude ) , he has eventually , within a much ...
... destroy them , we need not here inquire . But there can scarce be a doubt that by affording his rivals such indirect assistance ( and it has rapidly accumulated and assumed a serious magnitude ) , he has eventually , within a much ...
Page 51
... destroyed our agriculture , while it has helped to elevate our manufac- turers . But even this prosperity of manufacture was transitory . We have already seen its level of prosperity receding . What is the causation of that catastrophe ...
... destroyed our agriculture , while it has helped to elevate our manufac- turers . But even this prosperity of manufacture was transitory . We have already seen its level of prosperity receding . What is the causation of that catastrophe ...
Page 52
... Destroy that basis , and these elements are dispersed ; they fly in opposite directions . The interest of the landed pro- prietors , the sons of England's former benefactors , whose ancestors in the distant past built up slowly but ...
... Destroy that basis , and these elements are dispersed ; they fly in opposite directions . The interest of the landed pro- prietors , the sons of England's former benefactors , whose ancestors in the distant past built up slowly but ...
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action agricultural labourers artificial demand assert become free-traders Bonamy Price British manufacturer capital causation cause Chartist cheap bread cheaper Cobden commercial competition consequences consumer Corn Laws cost of transit cultivation currency demand for labour depression destroy distress duties effect England existence export trade fact factor farmers favourable fluctuation forces foreign markets free imports free intercourse free-trade policy gain high price home markets Huskisson increased induced industries influence intercourse in corn interest John Bright labouring classes landlords Lord Overstone manu means monopoly nations natural operation opinion period perity political predicted present price of bread price of corn price of wheat principle of free produce profits progress prosperity protection protectionists question railway reduced reforms remunerative repeal result Richard Cobden rivals selfish Sir Robert Peel soil sources stimulate supply surrounding conditions system of free tendency Thorold Rogers tion trade in corn unequal universal free trade wages William Huskisson