18 FALSE VIEWS OF INDUSTRY, 



arising from apparently different causes, yet 

 originate from the same. The primary cause in 

 both cases is a want of labour ; and the final 

 result in both, a want of bread. Between 

 those two extremes, however, there lies a vast 

 diversity of circumstances ; and hence the differ- 

 ence of opinion which has arisen in the respective 

 minds of the two parties themselves relative to 

 the cause of their misfortunes : the one party 

 imputing the principal amount of their griev- 

 ances to the operation of the corn laws and 

 other statutes that regulate the importation of 

 provisions ; the other to the tenure of land. 

 The former seeks the free import of foreign 

 corn, and the latter " tenant-rights," as the 

 panacea for all their ills. 



In the first case, the object, or rather am- 

 bition of English commercialists and manu- 

 facturers is obvious, and simply resolves itself 

 into this demand : " Give us acts of parliament 

 to our liking, and we will then cultivate the 

 whole earth, and provide a sufficiency of bread 

 for the increasing population of Britain to the 

 end of the world ;" a demand this, than which 

 scarcely anything can be more preposterous. 

 Corn, and other absolute necessaries of life, 



