The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-11 00:00:00

17. Because,
the duty en for

ted free

t ten years, there has been less
fluctuation in the price of corn here than in any other country.
19. Because a fixed tax at all times imposed upon the
necessaries of life would be a revenue unblessed by God and
abhorred by man, and such as never could be exacted in this
or any other country in seasons of scarcity'or famine.

18. Because, for the 1

20. Because the supply of corn under the present system
is sufficient for home consumption, and at an average price
not exceeding that of our neighbours.
21. Because the farmer and landlord, with their capital
diminished, will not have half the money to expend they now
lay out amongst us.

22. Because their repeal would place us at the mercy of
foreign countries, who, in case of war or bad harvest, may
raise corn to any price they please, or stop the supply alto-
gether.
23. Because, by their repeal, seven or eight millions of
acres of land will be thrown out of cultivation.
24. Because three-fourths of the population of this country
derive their means of subsistence from agrieaiture.
25. Because the capital invested by agriculturists in the
soil exceeds three thousand millions of pounds sterling !! !
26. Because the amount of taxes annually paid by the
agricultural classes is £6,433,575, while manufacturers,
trades, and professions only contribute £3,021,187, or less
than one-third of the whole amount.
27. Because, on the prosperity of agriculture is mainly
dependent the prosperity of this country.
28. Because the agricultural produce now annually raised
in this kingdom is valued at two hundred and forty-six mil-
lions, while the manufacturing is only one hundred and forty-
eight millions.
29. Because the agricultural interest has as just a right to
protection as the manufacturing.
30. Because, during twenty-four years before the corn
laws came into operation, the average price of wheat was 78s.
per quarter ; and during the succeeding twenty-four years,
from 1816 to 1840, only 60s. per quarter on the average.
31. Because we have the example of Rome before us,
which; though it had subdued the world, yet its decay was
accelerated by its dependance on foreigners for food. •
32. Because, by a repeal, foreigners would drain us of our
precious metals in payment for their corn.
33. Because in 1839, when corn was scarce in France and
Italy and other European countries through a bad harvest,
these powers prohibited its exportation, which, in a similar
case, they would do again.
3-1. Because a great proportion of the money paid to the
home grower of corn will be expended in purchasing the pro-
duce of the manufacturer, while it must be admitted that
from the foreign grower the most you can expect back is only
part.
35. Because the capital of this country, paid to the foreign
corn states, has already enabled them to compete with us in
the production of many important branches of manufacture,
whereas, till lately, their supply was wholly derived from
England. .

36. Because, whatever fluctuation in price there has been
under the present system, it has risen from the uncertainty
of the seasons, equally uncertain in other countries as this.
37. Because the greatest supply of foreign corn that has
ever been obtained during the greatest scarcity has never
been equal to one-tenth of the consumption.
38. Because in the year succeeding that in which there has
been a great influx of foreign grain, corn has always been at
higher prices.
39. Because the repeal would turn our corn-fields into bar-
ren wastes, and our villages into union workhouses..
40. Because protection against the importation of foreign
corn is necessary to balance the excess of duties, borne almost
exclusively by the agriculturists, and only remotely affecting
the capitalist, annuitant, or fundholder ; such as the mainte-
nance of the Established Church, the poor, the highways,
&c., &c., all of which are essential to our national happiness
and security.