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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Art. III. A Letter. on the Present State and Future Prospects of . Agriculture, addressed to the Agriculturists of Salop. By W. W. Whitmore, Esq. M. P. pp. 86. London, 1822. T'hough we have often endeavoured to demonstrate the im- - policy of the existing Corn-laws, and the advantages that would result from their repeal, we make no apology for again reverting to a subject bearing so strongly on the best interests of the country. Perhaps, however, we should have deferred the remarks we have now to offer on these laws to a future opportunity, had we not learned that they are certainly to be brought under the consideration of the House of Commons during the ensuing session of Parliament. This circumstance has induced us to think that we might advantageously employ a few pages, not so much in discussing the general policy of restrictions on the corn-trade, as in snowing the fallacy of those arguments ad misericordiam on which the agriculturists now principally rest their claims to protection. It is no longer contended, that monopolies and restrictions ought to be supported for their own sakes, or that they are intrinsically advantageous. The principles on which they are founded are now universally admitted to be unsound, even by those who attempt to justify them in their application to particular cases. None of the more intelligent advocates of the corn-laws now defend them on the ground of their being calculated to accelerate the progress of the country in wealth and civilization: On the contrary, they generally concede that this desirable result would be most effectually secured by allowing food to be purchased in the cheapest market: But they contend that, though the free admission of foreign corn might eventually lead to a greater increase of wealth, it would, in the first inst...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217281485 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217281486 |
| Weight | 1.48 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.02 In |
| List Price | $31.73 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 460 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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