Together With Observations Applicable To The Present State Of The Money Market, In A Series Of Letters.

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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...

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.

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.

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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