Were those high duties and prohibitions taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the same kind might be poured so fast into the home market, as to deprive all at once many thousands of our people of their ordinary employment and means of subsistence. An Essay on the External Corn Trade - Page 200by Robert Torrens - 1829 - 477 pagesFull view - About this book
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