Excerpt from Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, Vol. 1: During the Second Session of the Tenth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Appointed to Meet the Westminster, 6th December, 1831, in the Second Year of the Reign of His Majesty, William the Fourth Mr. Hume rose to protest against the adoption of one or two fallacies which had been put forth by hon. Members who had preceded him in the expression of their sentiments upon this subject. The hon. Member for Boroughbridge had contended, that a prohibitory system ought again to be enforced, and that it was entirely owing to the importation Of foreign goods that the distress in the various branches of manufacture was to be attributed. If such doctrines were to be acted upon, in what condition would this country speedily find herself, when her power of production ex ceeded, in many branches of manufacture, ber capabilit for consumption, no less than four fod? If restrictive measures were resorted to, other countries would retaliate. With regard to the United States, he was confident that country would soon abandon her extravagant tariff, and return to her former olicy. The high wages of labour in tiiat country, would continue so long as there was more work than the labourers could get through but they were not raised, as had been ad vanced by the hon. Member for Thetford (mr. Baring), by the protection afforded to native labour against foreign im portation. The thriving condition of Ame rice was imputed to her having so much elboworoom wherein to spread her labour. One chief source of her prospct'ity might be found in the fact, that the whole expense Of carrying on her government amounted to thirteen millions and a half Of dollars, whilst that Of England, exclusive of pensions, half-pay, and civil lists, was seventy-eight millions of dollars. With respect to the assertion that the glove trade was injured by the quantities Of foreign gloves which were smuggled into this country, he was not disposed to pay the slightest attention to them; for he believed, and his belief was founded on an investigation of the fact, that there was not one single dozen pair of gloves smug gled into England in the way of trade. The expense and the risk attending that course were far from being repaid by the saving of the duty in the price of the gloves when sold here. The petitioners in this trade ascribed all their distress to the free importation of foreign glows; and he was firmly tii' (lliltlititl that they were totally mistaken in their views; for that reason, as well as for many others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.