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SrEECir, SLU'TEiiBi'K 28Tir, 1843 (Loxdox). 



(7). '* Laudowuers liave uotliing pecuniarily, 

 tlicj liaYc nothing ultimately, to dread from a 

 free trade ia corn." 



Note.— /f matj be admitted that oicncrs who have land 

 near large toicns suitable for dairy farming, ichich cvi- 

 ploys the least amount of labour of any farming, v\alc^ 

 as much of their land now as formerly; fcnf it is from a 

 ■national and not from a landowners' jwint of view that 

 this question ought to he diseussed. 



(8). " The home market for food will be 

 doubled." 



Note. — Yes; but of what avail is that to the British 

 agrieulturist uhen the foreigner supplies the market, 

 u-hieh is u7.af Jiappens so largely under the present 

 system ? 



Speech, October 18tii, 1843 (London). 



(9). '* Oiir object is what I always declared it 

 — the benefit of the whole commviniij'." 



Note. — Tlte farming industry is still the largest in the. 

 Icivgdotn, hut instead of a hem fit our jxrcsent system of 

 imrcstricted free imports has proved qirite the contrary. 



(10). " I venture to say that there will be no 

 class that will not be permanently benefited." 



Note. — What about agriculture and the 916,3/(7 

 farmers and labourers ir/io hare had to leave agriculture f 



Speech, October IOth, 1843 (^Maxchester). 



(11). " The permanent interest of the agricul- 

 turist is in the prosperity of his customers." 



Note. — That is what it ought to he, but it is not the 

 case in England, for those cusfom^ers are supplied by 

 the forciijner at the rxpensc of the British agrirulturi^it. 



