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and well-governed, the highest skill in the application 

 of capital and labour to the growth of corn, might 

 conspire with great cheapness of land, to the raising 

 of cheaper corn than has ever yet been raised ; while 

 so cheap a market for the purchase of corn would 

 not only be as secure as any distant market ever was, 

 but might be extended continually with the progress 

 of colonization." The author admits that we may 

 from our own colonies have cheaper corn than has 

 ever been raised, from our Canadian Colony we 

 may obtain it ; but there must first be a demand for 

 the corn before it will be grown ; and the quantity of 

 capital and labour employed in its production will 

 depend upon the extent of the demand, and the 

 greater this demand the more rapid will be the 

 advance of the territory to wealth and prosperity. 

 The limited demand which would arise for Canadian 

 corn if the trade were without restriction, even if corn 

 at the ports of the Baltic and Mediterrenean could 

 not be purchased so cheap as corn from the United 

 States still the demand divided between the United 

 States and Canada, from which it could be purchased 

 on equal terms, would not be sufficiently large to 

 promote any very great improvement in the condition 

 of our Canadian fellow subjects. To produce the 

 full measure of benefit to the colony and to the 

 Mother Country to promote the most extensive em- 

 ployment of British capital and labour, the corn of 

 countries independent of us ought to be restricted 

 from coming into competition with Colonial and 

 home grown corn. The present Corn Laws provide 



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