 | Art - 1904 - 918 pages
...1846, "I believe that if you abolish the Corn Laws honestly, and adopt Free Trade in its simplicity, there will not be a tariff in Europe that will not...changed in less than five years to follow your example." In a letter to Mr. Ashworth, written in 1842, Mr. Cobden expressed his anticipation that Free Trade... | |
 | Richard Cobden - 1870 - 718 pages
...believe that if you abolish the Corn-law honestly, and adopt Free Trade in its simplicity, there will uot be a tariff in Europe that will not be changed in less than five years to follow your example. Well, gentlemen, suppose the Corn-law be not abolished immediately, but that Sir Robert Peel brings... | |
 | Richard Cobden - Corn laws (Great Britain). - 1878 - 680 pages
...population. I believe that if you abolish the Cornlaw honestly, and adopt Free Trade in its simplicity, there will not be a tariff in Europe that will not...changed, in less than five years to follow your example. Well, gentlemen, suppose the Corn-law be not abolished immediately, but that Sir Robert Peel brings... | |
 | English literature - 1881 - 622 pages
...as to fix a limit of time for the conversion. ' Adopt Free Trade,' he argued on one occasion, ' and there will not be a tariff in Europe that will not...changed in less than five years to follow your example. 'f Seven times five years have rolled over our heads since these words were uttered, and, whatever... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1883 - 624 pages
...chief speeches,* ' that if you abolish the Corn Law honestly, and adopt Free-trade in its simplicity, there will not be a tariff in Europe that will not...changed in less than five years to follow your example.' Five years ! Is that what Mr. Chamberlain calls not fixing a date? And Mr. Cobden's prediction was... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1884 - 1076 pages
...whole world to join with them. Mr. Cobden said in the House of Commons — " Adopt Free Trade, and there will not be a tariff in Europe that will not be changed in lesa than five years to follow your example." Nearly 40 years had passed, and the prophecy remained... | |
 | Richard Gill - Corn laws (Great Britain) - 1889 - 434 pages
...legislate for a particular class." 2 P. 85 : " I believe that if you abolish the Corn Laws honestly, there will not be a tariff in Europe that will not...changed in less than five years to follow your example." P. 201 : " I believe there is no event that has ever happened in the world's history, that in a moral... | |
 | Bernhard Ringrose Wise - History - 1892 - 428 pages
...said, " I believe that if you abolish the Corn Laws honestly, and adopt Free Trade in its simplicity, there will not be a tariff in Europe that will not...changed in less than five years to follow your example." Speaking again at a public meeting in 1852, he made a similar prophecy ; and on these two passages,... | |
 | George Armitage-Smith - Free trade - 1898 - 252 pages
...1846: " I believe that if you abolish the Corn-laws honestly, and adopt Free-trade in its simplicity, there will not be a tariff in Europe that will not...changed in less than five years to follow your example". (M-4C.ll) K that his action rested on the conviction, slowly and surely attained, of the necessity... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1901 - 440 pages
...abolish the Corn Law honestly, and] adopt Free Trade in its simplicity, there will not be a tariff inV Europe that will not be changed in less than five years to follow / your example. Well, gentlemen, suppose the Corn Law be notr / abolished immediately, but that Sir Robert Peel bring... | |
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I believe that if you abolish the Corn Law honestly and adopt Free Trade in its simplicity there will not be a tariff in Europe that will not be changed in less than five years to follow your example " (Speech in Manchester, January 15, 1846). 
