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condition , of thoie who were under the more rigid taskmaster , would be left no wor * e than it was before . However , these Last would certainly lose the chance of being more indulgently treated by a future incumbent . There wag therefore gome , though but little , force in the objection . To meet it , what have the Ministry done ? That they may not , by leaving matters just as they are ,
g ive the rapacious man an advantage over the more moderate , they strike a medium between the two , giving to the one more than he asks for , to the other less : forgetting , in this clumsy attempt to make legislation the agent of distributive justice , that if there are inequalities in the rigour with which the tithe is exacted , there are also inequalities , and greater ones , in the tithe itself ; all which are to be stretched and clipped to the
Procrustesbed of a uniform proportion . In most other respects the bill is deserving of praise . It re ^ moves all complication and annoyance in the collection of tithes , by making the demand no longer from the tenant , but from the proprietor ; and allowing him the option of redeeming it , on terms sufficiently easy to induce all who have the means , to avail themselves of the permission . It also takes the tithe off the consumer ,
and lays it upon the landlord . Tithe will no longer operate as any discouragement to cultivation . It will no longer be ooe of the expenses of production , which the price must be sufficient to repay ; but a fixed proportion of the rent , that is , of the surplus after the expenses are paid . It will be liable indeed to increase , but only as the rent increases , and can never , under any circumstances , be any thing but a deduction from the rent .
This , however , opens a view of the subject in some other of its bearings , which have not yet attracted the attention of those most interested . We see the landowners apparently taking a burthen off the shoulders of their customers the bread-eaters , and placing
it on their own . What is the meaning of so unlaiidlordly a proceeding ? It is , that they reckon upon being able to maintain the Corn Laws , While those laws subsist , the landlords will escape the consequences of the measure to which they are about to give their consent . This will appear from a very brief
explanation . If all the food consumed in England were grown on our own soil , the effect of abolishing tithe would be a fall of price . The consumer and not the landlord would reap the benefit ; and if a charge in commutation of tithe were laid upon the rent , the
landlord would be out of pocket b y the entire amount . But this fall of price cannot take place while th # Corn Laws last . As long as we are an importing country , the price must depend upon thfe cost of production abroad , not upon the cost of production here ; and nothing which can be done liere will lower it , while we continue to derive any portion of our food from abroad . UiiWs > . therefore , the stimulus given to cultivation at home by taking off
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1834, page 355, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2633/page/43/
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