Corn-laws

Suppose they effected their avowed object of a total repeal of the Corn-laws -- is any one weak enough to imagine that they would _then_ dissolve?

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Corn-laws, on the, 385 viewed in connexion with the manufacturing distress, 105 effects of their repeal on wages, &c.,

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"If the Corn-laws were repealed, the benefit which the manufacturer expected was, that he could produce at a lower price; and this he could do only by reducing wages to the continental level!!"

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Alas, the great sums they have expended in this crusade against the Corn-laws, will have to be wrung out of their wretched and exhausted factory slaves!

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But, as the matter _now_ stands, if their dreary drivellers Cobden, Bright, Wilson, Acland, W.J. Fox, were withdrawn from the public scene in which they are so anxious to figure, and sent to enjoy the healthy exercise of the tread-mill for one single three months, would this eternal "_brutum fulmen_" about the repeal of the Corn-laws be heard of any more?

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If the public opinion of this great country -- this great enlightened nation -- were _really_ roused against the Corn-laws, they would disappear like snow under sunshine.

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-- (Ib.No. 34, p. 4.) "The Corn-laws makes the labourer pay double the price for his food."

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Where has there been called one single spontaneous public meeting of any importance, and where exhibited a spark of enthusiasm, for the total repeal of the Corn-laws?

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They resolved to open a new campaign against Ministers and the Corn-laws -- greatly to augment their numbers and pecuniary resources -- to redouble their exertions, and immensely to extend the sphere of their operations.

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-- (Ib.No. 75.) "As a consequence of the repeal of the Corn-laws, _we promise cheaper food_, and our hand-loom weavers would get _double_ the rate of wages!"

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