Trades Newspaper And Mechanics Weekly Journal (Newspaper) - January 1, 1826, London, Middlesex THE AND JANUARY 1, 1828. They helped every one his neighbour and every one said to his BE OF GOOD 6. THE TAX ON acre gentry ate making every preparation for an active iting the approaching session or in support of their bread monopoly and high They have begun to hold their county and district to vapour for die nine hundred and ninety-ninth time about their wondrous importance to the and sad to concoct petitions for the continuance of the tax so long levied for their separate benefit from tihe people at fate of the campaign to be decided by the of the we should fear nothing from all these The landowners have absolutely nothing to oppose to downfall of this but their own unprincipled selfishness and argument which has the least relation to or or common or the public stands in array against and the moment that such arguments are preferred before that moment will be the last of the Bread or His Majesty's on the unquestionably sound that nothing is so good for trade and manufactures as perfect - and nothing less ultimately favourable to them than all sorts of bounties and prohibitory have promoted the passing of laws as exposed the manufacturers of England to a competition with few manufacturers than they ever before and it is impossible can now stop their they must go do their best to throw open the supply of corn If an commerce is to be it is to that that which Is commerce as it is or can be alone interest must be with a hope of it be left exposed to on one side of and on the other of that corn which either go one step nnd enable the English mechanic to obtain his bread at as cheap a rate as the Frenchman or who has been to posterity with the reputation of having done more hahn England their fine principles and good intentions than all the face of cabinet ever A there which and his colleagues may pledge which we hold them to have given on this may cry u as you restore all the prohibitory that they have attempted a which they go what English ministry could hope after that to remain in command a single 4�y The personal character of the as well the interests of their call imperatively upon them to persevere and not even for a single day beyond the meeting of As long as the is only brought into partial it must be productive of partial evil the distressing sase of tile to be a common good it must be common to Open but the ports as freely to foreign grain as they have been opened to foreign manufactures and superior ingenuity and industry are as certain to prevail over all as day follows Let Mr. and his colleagues but add this to their other triumphs over ancient errors and and they will complete for themselves a reputation as statesmen and unrivalled English V are not insensible to the difficulties ministers will nave to in bringing about this and it is we have that though the reason of case is all on their there is still ground for furnished by the proceedings of the that it is by mere clamour they would put down the cry of the nation For the abolition of this To whom is this clamour Not to a Parliament consisting of representatives of the but a Parliament consisting of representatives of these very and appointed by We are convinced that there is nothing many of these representatives would like better than to be clamoured into an acquiescence the demands of the bread They want an apology with which the reason of the case does not furnish for sacrificing the interests of the people to their own Public opinion must be so far respected this .is that they must have some shew of reason at for voting truth and their con- There must be the usual quantum arguing and talking about the subject what sort is no to enable country gentlemen to without that they have given their best attention to the whole and that if they have ic is in judgment and not for the mete sake of their dirty Tho table of the house must groan with petitions from the agricultural that the representative squirearchy may point to as proofs that they have done their The most obvious way of the effect of such petitioning and of stripping this meditated treachery to the public of the graces that will be attempted to Be around is to oppose petition to laet all those are interested ia cheap bread unite in demanding and imploring the repeal ot the tax upon it. For every petition that the send in to Parliament for its let the and mechanics send in their for its Let them 3>noae to the selfish claims of the bread the paramount aims of the bread eaters the national benefit of moderate cheap manufactures national loss by high rents and high the ultimate ruin and extinction of our manufactures to the present advantage after all it can last but for a of a tew whom accident as much as right has made masters of Let the commercial and manufacturing classes but do and we suppose that clamour as they die agriculturists must be silenced at The clamour of right must surely prevail over that of M The devil as the poets tell may be shamed on his ' wiU remarked some by a the unfortunate differences between masters and which exist so generally at the present arid to produce so much boUi of individual suffering and of public are by no with this in our very strong argument for an immediate alteration of the Cora Cases have in various of quarrels which both parties to a certain been in the men are wages wi serting - is a very melancholy and that portion of the public being uninterested parties in these can look with calmness and impartiality to the causes which produce will discover in many there is deal more to deplore than to all suffering the no less suffering and the public who commiserate the situation of have great reason to complain to the for not at once by an abolition or amelioration of this Corn one great cause of this ruinous and still greater reason will they have to complain if instead of manfully cutting out at once this morbid part of our political shall go on with a paltry course of lenitives and exasperating the disease as they and perhaps killing the patient at last by their quackish and mischievous ' We that we are Under no apprehension that ministers will do any thing of the We consider them as with tho people on this question and backed as they are sure to be by the peop we can see no temptation that they have to do than push the sound and liberal principles of policy which they have as quickly into universal operation as they possibly can. It is but due to the to that though the greae majority of them must be considered as hostile to people in this they are not all so There arc some who have sense enough to that what is injurious to all other classes of in the long be beneficial to and not a few who would even much individually tor the public v While in England we have the County of Lincoln petitioning any alteration in the Corn we have to set it the of County of one of the largest in which has negatived any petition for the At a meeting of the Landholders of on Tuesday last Mr. of moved resolutions die Corn when they negatived by 99 0 7
