With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and happy, instead of our present situation in which so much distress exists - distress of our own producing.
-- Joseph Hume
   
Joseph Hume   Name:
Joseph Hume
Type:
Scientist
Nationality:
Scottish
Birth:
January 22, 1777
Death:
February 20, 1855
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