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140 'live and let live,' is a fair, and honest, and English mode of proceeding."

The London Standard spoke as plainly: "The present cry against the Corn Laws is, at bottom, the work of a few commercial swindlers, though aided, no doubt, by the exertions of political swindlers, who see the benefit of an agitation calculated to disturb public attention from the misconduct of the (whig) government. It is well, however, to remember that the commercial swindlers are the prime movers because the honest class of traders, who would be the very first victims of a repeal of the Corn Laws, may be entrapped into joining the suicidal movement by what they believed to be good commercial names."