Identifier: pamphlets01cobd (find matches)
Title: Pamphlets
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Cobden Club (London, England)
Subjects: Cobden, Richard, 1804-1865 Tariff Protectionism
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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blic morality which Cobden devoted his life to enforce will ultimately prevail in the government of the world we think that no one who believes in God or man can doubt. Whether it be in store for our country first to achieve by their adoption the last triumphs of civilisation and to hold her place in the van of human progress, or whether to other races and to other communities will be confided this great mission, it is not for us to determine. But those who trust that this may yet be Englands destiny, who, in spite of much which they deplore, delight to look upon her past with pride and her future with hope, will ever revere the memory of Cobden as of one whose lifelong aim it was to lay the foundations of her empire in her moral greatness, in the supremacy of reason, and in the majesty of law—and will feel with us that the international man was also, and still more, an Englishman. tJfJWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED, THE GRESHAM PRESS, WOKING AND LONDON. COBDEN ON THE LAND QUESTION: A PLEA FORSMALL HOLDINGS.
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CASSELL AND COMPANY, Limited: LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK & MELBOURNE. 1907. The following letter is reprinted from the Times of January 7, 1873. // was written by Cobden in 1864, and estiblished in the Morning Star of January 22 of that year. Nine years later it was sent by Mr. John Bright to the Daily Newsfor republication; and it was reprinted from the Daily News by the Times, March 1, 1907. Its arguments are as applicable to Small Holdings with security of tenure as to Peasant Properties; and in the belief that it will help the movement in favour of Small Holdings, the Committee of the Cobden Club now reprint it. COBDEN ON THE LAND QUESTION. jk ^ ^^ All ancient legislators, especially Moses, grounded the success of their ordinances concerning virtue, justness, and morality upon securing hereditary estates, or, at least, landed property, to the greatest possible number of citizens.—NiEBUHR. At the annual meeting of the Romsey Labourers Encouragement Association, the Hon. William Cowper, w

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