Page:Thoughts on the Corn laws, addressed to the working classes of the county of Gloucester.djvu/7



the eight years that I have sat as one of the representatives of the county of Gloucester, part of the time as member for the Western, and now as member for the Eastern Division, no question has been mooted that carries itself so home to the perception of every individual in the country as the Corn Law question. The Reform Bill was a question of feeling; this is a question of food. Many never trouble their heads about politics; all must think about bread. I have therefore felt it my duty to give this great subject a calm, impartial, and searching examination, to see how it would affect the interests of the different classes of persons forming that community to which I am responsible for my public conduct; and I have taken the liberty of laying before them the following reflections upon the subject. They are ad-