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Page ix
... wages . For a time , then , all would work smoothly enough . But how long would it last ? The This was the turning - point of the question . labouring community was told by the protectionists that , in the long - run , the foreigner ...
... wages . For a time , then , all would work smoothly enough . But how long would it last ? The This was the turning - point of the question . labouring community was told by the protectionists that , in the long - run , the foreigner ...
Page xix
... wages , by increasing the competition of the labourers amongst themselves 32. The partial arguments of the free - traders 277 279 CHAPTER XIV . PARTIAL AND UNIVERSAL FREE TRADE . 33. Some events have fallen out according to Cobden's ...
... wages , by increasing the competition of the labourers amongst themselves 32. The partial arguments of the free - traders 277 279 CHAPTER XIV . PARTIAL AND UNIVERSAL FREE TRADE . 33. Some events have fallen out according to Cobden's ...
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... wages would have risen - for it is certain they must have risen . And this , too , under protection ! Thus the labouring part of the community would gain by the result . But how was that result to be brought about ? The great drawback ...
... wages would have risen - for it is certain they must have risen . And this , too , under protection ! Thus the labouring part of the community would gain by the result . But how was that result to be brought about ? The great drawback ...
Page 10
... wages were low ; and vice versa , that when bread became cheap wages rose to their highest point . " Only make bread cheap , " they cried , and we will compete more successfully than we have ever yet done with the world . Thus it ...
... wages were low ; and vice versa , that when bread became cheap wages rose to their highest point . " Only make bread cheap , " they cried , and we will compete more successfully than we have ever yet done with the world . Thus it ...
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... wages , and they were supported with a unanimity very rarely attainable . But the reason is clear . They discovered to their workmen the prospect of the promotion of their self - interest . This movement , however , of itself would ...
... wages , and they were supported with a unanimity very rarely attainable . But the reason is clear . They discovered to their workmen the prospect of the promotion of their self - interest . This movement , however , of itself would ...
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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