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Excerpt from An Address to the Houses of Lords and Commons, in Defence of the Corn Laws
It is not true that the landlords are the sole gainers by the rise in the prices of grain. It may be easily shown, that the farmers are gainers in various ways; but one will be enough. Along with the rise in the permanent price of corn, the value of every article of which the farmer's stock in trade consists increases; and his lease, not the least, if he have one.
In Sec. 5, the reviewer takes credit to himself for stating a case most favourable to the landlords but surely with very little justice; for in the very first sentence he has (iris-stated it. The question does not lie betwixt the landlords and the people generally, but, as I shall hereafter show, betwixt the persons who live on the interest of money, the persons who live on fixed incomes, annuities, rent charges, Ste. The manufacturers solely for foreign consumption, and a few professional men, 011 the one side: and the landlords, farmers, and all the remainder of mankind, on the other, amongst whom are to be placed an immense multitude of small retail tradesmen, depending for subsistence on the landlords and farmers.
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