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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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Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

015

Main Headings

deontology

Folio number

376

Info in main headings field

Image

005

Titles

Category

linking material

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f51

Penner

sir john bowring

Watermarks

i i smith & son 1831

Marginals

Paper Producer

maria edgeworth

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1831

Notes public

ID Number

5592

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