With regard to our present question, we differ as to effects which must necessarily follow from restrictions on the importation of foreign corn.
He was writing the tract entitled: 'Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn, intended as an Appendix to "Observations on the Corn Laws.
If I would lay a tax on foreign corn,' you ask, 'on account of a tax on our own, does not the same principle apply to the indirect taxes that raise the price of labour?
In times of moderate plenty, the importation of foreign corn is loaded with duties that amount to a prohibition.
Moreover, it is obviously possible, by restrictions upon the importation of foreign corn, to maintain a balance between the agricultural and commercial classes.
Mr. Richard Spooner moved a petition praying that “foreign corn, on importation, should be subjected to the same rate of duty as is now paid by the British farmer.
Mr. George Webb Hall professed to have discovered a remedy in the imposition of a very heavy duty on foreign corn—the object of that was, of course, to prevent its importation altogether, and increase the price at home.
How was it that, for a long period, foreign corn came in plentifully, paying the duty of 20s.
The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn, 1815.
It is alleged that agriculture declined under the foreign corn trade, and that for this reason ploughmen declined.
We may at present then confine our inquiry to the restrictions upon the importation of foreign corn with a view to an independent supply.
The evils which must always belong to restrictions upon the importation of foreign corn, are the following: 1.
This is a cause which can only be essentially mitigated by the habitual importation of foreign corn, and a diminished cultivation of it at home.
The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn; intended as an Appendix to "Observations on the Corn Law" by the Rev.
For it is a notorious and incontrovertible fact, that if foreign corn were at this moment exposed at their doors duty free, they could not purchase it.
The duty on foreign corn is a tax in favour of the farmer, or perhaps the landlord, just as distinctly as if the tax- collector carried the coin from our till and gave it them.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foreign corn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
