Influences of the Corn Laws As Affecting All Classes of the Community And Part
Influences of the Corn Laws As Affecting All Classes of the Community And Part
James Wilson
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It would, therefore, only be tedious to go through the same calculations with rye, barley, and oats. Thus it becomes an indisputable fact, that, had the state of our laws for the last twenty years been such as to have maintained the price of wheat at the actual average price of 52s. 2f/. Which has been received, no wheat could have been grown in Prussia for this country ; either must the prices have risen here above 55^-. , or must the cost of production have been materially cur- tailed in Prus...sia. This, perhaps, might have been done to a small extent by throwing out the worst portions of land in cultivation, and retaining only a small portion of the best ; but this would have curtailed their surplus quantity produced, which at most is very trifling. The difference of the two prices of 2?. LOd. In London, although not so large apparently on 526-. Per quarter, yet is very large on 28. 9. '2d. , the original cost in the country, and, as it would require to be all saved in the act of production, it would be all chargeable on that low price, or even 75 a lower one, — viz.
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