Joseph Hume
Joseph Hume
Joseph Hume FRSwas a Scottish doctor and Radical MP, born in Montrose, Angus...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth22 January 1777
declare equally heard honourable house interests members parliament theirs
It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country.
subject
So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced.
produces refusal
Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.
peculiar protection burden
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.
house reason should
What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House.
corn country distress duty exists fed fixed fully instead man open trade
With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and happy, instead of our present situation in which so much distress exists - distress of our own producing.