The Irish Problem And How to Solve It An Historical And Criticial Review of Th
The Irish Problem And How to Solve It An Historical And Criticial Review of Th
Davidson George
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They managed to buy maize in New York at three shillings per bushel and to sell it in Ireland at nine shillings, duty free ; that enormous- price being obtained in consequence of the scarcity which the exports thence had previously produced. As Peel's craze was that " buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market " is the sum of all moral obligations, he did his best to play into their hands, but he was not quite equal to the occasion. He had, in 1842, made the sliding scale IMPORTATION OF... MAIZE. 269 for import duty upon wheat to vary from 2os. To is. Now he made it from IDS. To 45. With the proviso that it should be uniformly one shilling after 1849. The popular impression in England was that this was done at the time mainly tor the relief-of Ireland. There never was a greater delusion. The alteration of the sliding scale made little or no difference to the price to the consumer, and, as the shilling duty did not begin till 1849, when the famine was nearly over, that could not have been much mitigation.
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