I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food — Joseph Hume
Land, in england, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot. — Joseph Hume
Now, what produces a want of demand? a refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce. — Joseph Hume
Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us. — Joseph Hume
So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced. — Joseph Hume
Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital — Joseph Hume