The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-12 00:00:00

CORN-LAW FALLACIES, WITH TEE
ANSWERS.

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( Continued from The Sun of Tuestay.)
9.—Every shilling paid to a ANSWEL—The "Morning
foreigner for corn is a shilling Chronicle" would be a great
lost to this nation, and a shit- simpleton, if he insisted on
ling gain to the recipient, upon making his own shoes and
the same principle as the those of his servants, when
Morning Chronicle would 105.,., he might obtain double the
and the Morning Post would
gain, if instead of the former's sh oesl'
in the same time by
working at his desk, and buy-
inserting advertisements in his
paper, he were to kick the in of the shoemaker. The
customers out of his shop into loss is of the same kind, when
the shop of his neighbouring a nation buys half a quarter
rival, the latter. There is no of corn for the same price
more friendship in the trade of that it might obtain a whole
nations than in the trade of in- one. The contrary plea de-

Cii;icluals7 and while England pends on concealing the fact,
shall have a churchyard un- that the man who saves half
ploughed, she ought not to buy the price of his quarter of
a grain of corn from a foreigner,
corn, as certainly expends
no more than the Morning
Chronicle should refuse to in- that' half with some other
tradesman, as he would with
sert advertisements for the be-
half of the Morning Post.— the home grower of dear
John Bull, Aug. 26, 1838. corn. To the rest of trade,
therefore, in the aggregate,
there is a balance. But re-
mains the difference, that in one case the consumer gets
something for his money.
10.—As to the question A.—The quantity an in
about "cheap bread," the af- dividual will get, depends on
fair, as far as ploughmen, ar- the whole quantity which is
tioans, and paupers are con- there to be had, and on the
corned, is in a .nut shell. Let
competition for it. The
the price be what it will, they
lanes to shut out foreign
are merely kept alive as the
corn, in order that by dimi-
wheels of a machine are
greased—by quantity. What- nishing the whole quantity,
ever has been, is, or shall be the artisan may be forced by
the price of corn, it never did, competition to give more
does not, and never will enter days' work for a bushel of
into the head of a philoso- corn. Shut up the rats in
pher to regulate wages on a trap, to-breed on a limited
any other principle than that quantity of corn, and it will
which enables a labourer, soon be seen how each is to
whether at the plough or the
have a smaller portion out
loom, the canal, the railroad, ` , ~. . -, . •
of tne innitea quantity than
in the mines, or at the anvil,
to buy a certain number of out of a greater.
" ounces" of the "staff of

life." Why -talk .about. the
price then ?—the word quantity is your only wprd.—ld.

11.—The labourers--:whe- A.—ln all these cases,
ther these who make the corn competition, and want of de-
to come in Ireland, and never 'nand for labourers to diminish
taste it, or the paupers who it, are what make the mi-
did make the corn to come in sery. If the Irish arc ever
England, and are now dying
to mend their best chance
,by " ounces," or the weavers .
who are brought down to the
Is in the demand for muscle
starvation point—all have which will be crested when
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nothing whatever to do with England opened to corn-
the, price of corn, particularly merce by the abolition of tits
when that price is lowered or Corn-laws. If, the English
raised even by forging on a poor are to escape from
.piece of paper the name of " ounces," it must be by ob-.
iVlosxs by JACOB, or the name taining the permission to keep
of OBADIAB by EpartAtat_id, themselves, their betters now
deprive them of. If the wea-
vers are to escape starvation
point, it must be by ceasing to pay a.premium to foreign
manuficturers for taking the bread out of their mouths.
12.—We hold it to be sound A.—Tim blunder, as be-
philosophy, and not such as is fore, of inviting the Morn-
caught from Scotchmen, that, ing Chronicle to make his
neither a nation nor an indivi- own shoes. 4,
dual can gain by buying of an-
other nation or another indi-
vidual, that commodity which the nation and individual can
produce from their own soil and from thoirown loom.—ld.
13.—And it seems to us A.—lf the MorningChro-
squally sound philosophy that nick insisted on making his
no two nations nor individuals own shoes, and the shoe-
can gain by an exchange of maker on being a. " Chro-
any commodities, unless some • • being
third nation or individual will to Inmse ant
mcle ,
be pleased to buy and pay for his own printer—this woul
the commodities exchanged ; be an example of what two
—ld. individualsmight gain,though
no third person stood by to
buy or pay. Exactly the
same, if Germany insists on making dear manufactures and
England on raising dear corn ; when, by the simple inven-
tion of an exchange, Germany might have twice as many
manufactures for her pains, and England twice as much
I corn.

14.—but the nation which A. There is omission, of
exchanges money or merchan- whether it can be produced
disc for foreign food when at the same price. If the
that nation can grow or pro- Chronicle produced his own
duce that food for itself, must shoes, when they might be
ba mad—that's all. —ld.
had by half the labour em-
p'oyed in his trade of chro-
nicling, then he would be the madman. But the madmen
have always been for shutting up the wise.
15. —" Why choose this par- A.—We must preach
tieular time toraiseenagitation against the folly, when it
against the Corn-laws?" * pinches most. When men
Why? because from the bad
feel the pressure of want of
weather it is feared that part
corn, is the time to rally the&
of the tillage land will prove
against the absurdity of al-
unproductive, and the whole.
imperfectly productive and lowing themselves to be sys-
this is the time you select to tematically confinedinstead
to
putting part of the smaller quantity nsteau
land wholly cut of tillage! and the greater.
causing the rest of the land to
be less productively tilled, be-
cause tilled at a less profitll—Oxford Herald, Sept. 8, 183$.
16.—Suppose that the fears A.—We are kept at a
of a deficient harvest are rea- famine _price always. The
lizcd, what then ? The ports beginning and end of the
are opened much before grain
can reach a famine price.—Id. 'whole system is to get two
days' work out of the la-
bourer instead of one, for a
giiren quantity
.of corn, by keeping him to " starvation

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17.—The hole world will A.—They wanted yester-
starve before Englishmen can day, they want to-day, and
wart.—ld. they will want to-morrow.
Their laws are made (as
Paley said the body was not made, to produce gout) for
the propagation of this one thing, want. Artificial famine
is the inheritance of all the industrious who have been bun
within _these twenty years.

18.—The foreign corn will - A.—" Corning back to
come in, it will be paid for in our manufactories," is the
money, and this money will fraud which should tell the
come back to our manufacto- London tradesmen to scatter
ries, if the enemies of the ,
tneir money about the streets,
Corn-laws speak truly.—ld.
because it would all come

back to their shops. Where
is the enemy of the Corn-laws, who ever committed him..
self by anything so foolish ?
19.—We all know what A.—" Make laws against
commercial .speculation is ca. commerce, or commercial
pable of; and can we doubt men will ruin themselves and
that, but for the Corn-laws, you." If commercial men
the existing anxiety about the are feeble enough to submit
harvest would cause the
to such nursing, they must
markets and granaries to be
take it for their pains.
glutted with foreign grain
long before this, to the ruin
of the British farmer, indeed, but no les3 to the ruin of the
British importer and of the foreign grower—and, if the
enemies of the Corn-laws speak truly, of the British mew.
facturer.—ld.

(TO DE CONTINUED.)

Sir Edmund Hayes, Bart, M.P., and Lady Hayes,
have arrived at their seat, Drumboe Castle, Straoraer.
Baron de Tuyll has left Mivart's Hotel with im-
portant despatches for the Hague.
Lord and Lady Waterpark are making a tour in
Scotland.

Her Majesty's steam-packet, Widgeon, Captain
Hamilton, is ordered round from Dover to Ramsgate, to take
on board their Majesties the King and Queen cf the Bel-
gians, Count d'Arschot, Geaeral Goblet, M. Van Praet,
and the rest of the Royal suite. The King and Queen will
make a short sojourn at Ostend ere they return to Brussels.
The Duke of St. Alban's has arrived on a visit to
the Earl of Selkirk, at St. Mary's Isle, Kirkcudbright, N. B,
where a party has assembled for the sporting season. His
Grace's mansion in Piccadilly, so long occupied by the
Countess of Guildford, is filled with work people, who are
employed in beautifying it. It will be ready for the occu-
pancy of his Grace's establishment at Christmas. -
The marriage between Lady Ann Wentworth Fitz-
william and Mr. MackerAie is to be solemnised about the
midd:e of next month, at Wentworth House, the seat of the
Earl Fitzwilliam, in Yot kshire. Theloc will net be any festi-
vities in honour of Viscount Milton, M P., as
.stated.
The rumoured marriage of Miss Phil;tis v..ith Vis-
count Duran, M. P., will not take place until early next

season.
The grand tournament intended to be given by the
Earl of Eglintoun, at Eglinoun Castle, his seat in Scotland,
in the nmuing spring, is def,rred until the follovung yrar, in
eensegnerlcz!, it is said, of the vart preparations.
HEATON PA Ric.--The Earl and Countess of Wil-
ton will receive a large panty at this splendid scat immedi-
ately after the anicaster IZares. The circle will Assemble on
Saturl3y \veil. and ain,ng tbc guest; yjil be 6e Marquis
and Karchilreso of Westminster, Earl and Countess of Cilt s-
tot-field, Earl of Eglintoun, Sir John (1; rat d, Lord iloAth,
Lord Miltown, Mr. C. It. Sl:eridnn, lion. Col. and Mrs.
Arson, &c. Lord and. Lady Sucield and Lord Cantilupe
t..) join the party, I.cing at plisent in Scotland. Lord
Stanley, owing to the illness of the Earlof Derby. it
IN ill not be able to avail himself of thc! 1,.,1424C rt/arl's invitation.
The Duke and Duchess of I,liiattfoit cannot be of the •
being absent on the cvittilKutt Part:
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