stephbuon
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1 year ago Make obj behave as subject
Having gone carefully over the entire Bill , he had failed to discern any substantial benefit to the landlord under its provisions�there would be no such benefit�on the contrary , under the Bill the landlord was treated as a kind of interloper , and everybody had a right to interfere with his property but himself .
Landlord was treated as interloper
If the House would allow him, he would read an extract from a letter he had received from one of those merchants, in which he said:— " You are aware, that my own judgment inclines to a fixed duty, but knowing, that the feeling of the Government, is in favour of a sliding-scale, I am disposed to look on the proposition, as brought forward, as a very great improvement, when I consider the very large amount of the present undue protection, while it affords an ample guarantee, against our being dependent upon foreign countries, for too large a proportion of our supplies. "
government is in favor