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Together With Observations Applicable To The Present State Of The
Money Market, In A Series Of Letters.
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Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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surplus by a comparatively small reduction in price. There can be
no greater evil to a country than fluctuation in prices. A great
fall generally begins with throwing the manufacturing classes out
of employment, and ends in ruining the agriculturists. It sweeps
like a pestilence over the whole face of the country, and no
sound-minded man can contemplate, for a moment, the continuance of
any system of laws calculated to give rise to such effects. Having
the permanent welfare of the country for their object, the duty of
parliament under this view of the subject was therefore obvious,
namely, to do away the existing laws, and to bring the prices of
this country to a level with those of other countries as soon as
possible, or to bring them as nearly so, as the circumstances of
the country in other respects would permit, and this the committee
recommended. It suggested " to parliament, as a matter highly de- "
serving of their future consideration, whether a trade " in corn,
constantly open to all nations of the world, " and subject only to
such a fixed duty as might com- " pensate to the grower the loss of
that encouragement ' which he received during the late war, from
the ob- " stacles thrown in the way of free importation, is not "
as a permanent system preferable to that state of " law by which
the corn trade is now regulated." Report in Unison with Public
Opinion.?This report was drawn up by Mr Huskisson, but we believe
there never was a report, of which the views were less exclusively
those of the party who drew it. The opinions it expressed were the
views of the committee at large, and on this particular point
became at once the opinions of all intelligent men. Nor was it
necessary to assume with Mr Tooke, that the population in ordinary
years were adequately fe...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to
www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books
for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: our
surplus by a comparatively small reduction in price. There can be
no greater evil to a country than fluctuation in prices. A great
fall generally begins with throwing the manufacturing classes out
of employment, and ends in ruining the agriculturists. It sweeps
like a pestilence over the whole face of the country, and no
sound-minded man can contemplate, for a moment, the continuance of
any system of laws calculated to give rise to such effects. Having
the permanent welfare of the country for their object, the duty of
parliament under this view of the subject was therefore obvious,
namely, to do away the existing laws, and to bring the prices of
this country to a level with those of other countries as soon as
possible, or to bring them as nearly so, as the circumstances of
the country in other respects would permit, and this the committee
recommended. It suggested " to parliament, as a matter highly de- "
serving of their future consideration, whether a trade " in corn,
constantly open to all nations of the world, " and subject only to
such a fixed duty as might com- " pensate to the grower the loss of
that encouragement ' which he received during the late war, from
the ob- " stacles thrown in the way of free importation, is not "
as a permanent system preferable to that state of " law by which
the corn trade is now regulated." Report in Unison with Public
Opinion.?This report was drawn up by Mr Huskisson, but we believe
there never was a report, of which the views were less exclusively
those of the party who drew it. The opinions it expressed were the
views of the committee at large, and on this particular point
became at once the opinions of all intelligent men. Nor was it
necessary to assume with Mr Tooke, that the population in ordinary
years were adequately fe...
Written To Prove To Government And The Country That The Cause Of
The Present Agricultural Distress In Entirely Artificial. Also
Contains An Essay On The General Principle And Present Practice Of
Banking.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingA AcentsAcentsa A-Acentsa Acentss Legacy Reprint Series.
Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks,
notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this
work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of
our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's
literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of
thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of intere
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