. An English history with illustrations and maps/ by Symes ; adapted for use in Canadian elementary schools by George M. Wrong. enefits^ it has become the source ofa large national revenue. The Price of Bread had become by the most engross-ing topic in England. At the close of theNapoleonic War, Parliament had put a heavytax ou foreign wheat. This was done to help the land-ownerswlio then controlled the state; if the price of wheat was high,the rents of the land which produced it would also be course the high piice of wheat made the cost of breadgreater, and in the end the b
. An English history with illustrations and maps/ by Symes ; adapted for use in Canadian elementary schools by George M. Wrong. enefits^ it has become the source ofa large national revenue. The Price of Bread had become by the most engross-ing topic in England. At the close of theNapoleonic War, Parliament had put a heavytax ou foreign wheat. This was done to help the land-ownerswlio then controlled the state; if the price of wheat was high,the rents of the land which produced it would also be course the high piice of wheat made the cost of breadgreater, and in the end the burden on the poor became in-tolerable. The landed class declared that, without the taxon foreign grain, prices in England would fall so low thatagriculture would become impossible. But there were otherthan the landed interests to be considered. Britain was agreat manufacturing country, and the high price of food made 274 AN ENGLISH HISTORY it necessary for the manufacturers to pay wages whicli, thydeclared, destroyed their profits. On their side they liad tliehungry poor, and a long and bitter agitation was carried SiK Robert Richard Cobden, John Bright, and otiieis, set to work toeducate the country, and they soon had it aioused. Thoughin 1839 the leader of the party described tlie repeal THE GREAT REFORMS 275 of the Corn Laws as the wildest and maddest scheme that ever entered into tlie imagination of man to conceive, eight years later, not only the Liberals, but also Sir Robert Peel, the leader of the Conservatives, had been converted to different views, and that chiefly by the unadorned eloquence of Richard Cobden. Peel had the honesty and the courage not to be ashamed „ ,, ^ ,.^. of his change of opinion. He fought side byPeel s abolition o i r> j of the Com side with his old enemies, and faced the anger ^^^^- of his old friends. He himself proposed the change which he had so long resisted, and in 1846 he carriedthe Bill for the Repeal of the Corn
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