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Difficulties of the Commission
It is not easy to form an accurate idea, without a
thorough knowledge of France, of the difficulties which attach to
any change of the restrictive system of France. So strange are
the prejudices are so powerful and so intimately blended with the peculiar particular interests
of particular classes that almost every public document breathes
hostility towards a greater an extended liberality of the Tariff. No more
striking proof example of this general feeling can hardly be given, than the Report of the
Committee on the Budget, consisting of 36 members of the Chamber
of Deputies, published in the Session of 1832. It says,
"If we admitted the food and raiment, and metals, and
"colonials and objects, which strangers would bring to
"our parts, we might, probably, save some hundreds of millions:-
"should we be the richer, in consequences?- we think not;-
"for the riches of a State are in the elements of labor and when
"labor fails to find employment, misery is reproduced. And,
"it is not only a question of comfort, but one of existence; - for, if
"wheat were introduced, without Duty, from the Baltic, and the
"Black sea, our maritime shores would remain uncultivated and
"the effect of a competition would affect more and more, nearly
"the whole of our agricultural industry. And it is only so long as
"foreign harvest are abundant, that they will provide for our wants*
If
*It does not seem to have reoccurred to the Commission ttee that to
restrain the means of supply to a single country, is greatly to lessen
the sources of that supply, — to make it most subject to accident and
vicissitudes; - whereas, a free trade in Corn, necessarily places the
importing country in relation with those countries where the harvests
have
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