IX.] CORN IS APPLICABLE. 



town. Here is another evil that has arisen 

 out of the heavy taxes on malt and on hops, 

 and out of the cruel prohibition preventing the 

 poor man from raising his own hops ; and gene- 

 rally out of that terrible taxation, and that sys- 

 tem of degrading the labourers, which was carried 

 by Pitt to that state of perfection in which it 

 has ever since remained. Mr. John Ellman, an 

 old farmer of Sussex, said, in his evidence before 

 a Committee of the House of Commons, in 1821, 

 that, when he began farming, forty years before 

 that time, EVERY LABOURER OF THE 

 PARISH BREWED HIS OWN BEER 5 and 

 that now NONE of them did it, except now and 

 then a man to whom he himself gave the malt. 

 Would not a House of Commons chosen by the 

 people at large ^ would not such a House of 

 Commons, upon reading this evidence of Mr. 

 Ellman, have voted unanimously, ^^ that this 

 " House will never separate, until it has di- 

 " gested a plan for inquiring into the cause of 

 ^^ this dreadful change ?" When every poor 

 man brewed his own beer, yeast could never be 

 wanting in any neighbourhood. But, even then, 

 the time was as valuable as it is now, and more 

 valuable, and the same may be said of the fuel. 

 To make a pudding and boil it (for it may be 

 of all sizes, from that of your fist to that of your 

 head) is the work of not much more than an hour. 



