Life of Sir Robert Peel
Life of Sir Robert Peel
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His speech, which lasted nearly three hours, was necessarily dull, nnd his proposal was equally offensive to the country gentlemen and to the Anti-Corn Law League. It amounted merely to an improvement of the slid ing sca le which had been devised by the Duke of Wellington's Cabinet, and was based on the axiom that the British farmer, taking one year with another, could not make a profit by growing corn if foreign corn were admitted at a price of less than TOs. a quarter. By a calculation of 134... LIFE OF SIR ROBERT PEEL.
prices extending over a long term of years, Peel bad satisfied himself that a price of 55s. a quarter would remunerate the British farmer. He proposed to modify the sliding scale accordingly. Under the sliding scale of 1828, when wheat fetched 60s. a quarter, foreign wheat was admitted subject to a duty of 27s. a quarter, and as the price rose the duty fell, until, when the price was 69s., the duty was 16s. 8d. ; but when the price rose above TOs. the duty fell by 4s. for every rise of Is.
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His speech, which lasted nearly three hours, was necessarily dull, nnd his proposal was equally offensive to the country gentlemen and to the Anti-Corn Law League. It amounted merely to an improvement of the slid ing sca le which had been devised by the Duke of Wellington's Cabinet, and was based on the axiom that the British farmer, taking one year with another, could not make a profit by growing corn if foreign corn were admitted at a price of less than TOs. a quarter. By a calculation of 134... LIFE OF SIR ROBERT PEEL.
prices extending over a long term of years, Peel bad satisfied himself that a price of 55s. a quarter would remunerate the British farmer. He proposed to modify the sliding scale accordingly. Under the sliding scale of 1828, when wheat fetched 60s. a quarter, foreign wheat was admitted subject to a duty of 27s. a quarter, and as the price rose the duty fell, until, when the price was 69s., the duty was 16s. 8d. ; but when the price rose above TOs. the duty fell by 4s. for every rise of Is.
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