3. "The Corn-law compels us to pay three times the value for a loaf of bread."—(Ib. No. 13.)
"If the Corn-laws were abolished, the working man WOULD SAVE 31/2d. UPON EVERY LOAF OF BREAD."—(Ib. No. 75.)
"As a consequence of the repeal of the Corn-laws, we promise cheaper food, and our hand-loom weavers would get double the rate of wages!"—(Ib. No. 7.)
"We shall have cheap bread, and its price will be reduced 33 per cent."—(Ib. No. 34.)
4. Messrs Villiers, Muntz, Hume, Roche, Thornton, Rawson, Sandars, (all Leaguers,) say, and the oracle of the League itself has said, that "We want free trade, to enable us to reduce wages, that we may compete with foreigners."—(Post, pp. 13-16.)
5. The League Oracle admits that "a repeal would injure the farmer, but not so much as he fears."—(League Circular, No. 58.)
Mr Cobden says—
1. "If we have free trade, the landlords will have as good rents as now."—(Speech in the House of Commons, 15th May last.)
2. "Provisions will be no cheaper."—(Speech at Bedford, Hertford Reformer, 10th June last.)
3. "THE ARGUMENT FOR CHEAP BREAD WAS NEVER MINE."—(Morning Chronicle, 30th June 1843, Speech on Penenden Heath.)