Joseph Hume
Joseph Hume
Joseph Hume FRSwas a Scottish doctor and Radical MP, born in Montrose, Angus...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth22 January 1777
country scotland england
Scotland is a great country and many wonderful things have come out of this country, however England gets the glory.
country levels proportion
In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.
england raw-materials materials
Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.
country believe skills
Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed.
law corn interest
I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest.
law might able
If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.
country want demand
Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.
people giving unemployed
Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.
country law land
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.