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Editorial
December 12, 1766
The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
Editorial condemns England's wheat export bounty amid Mediterranean and European scarcity, which drives high prices and starves the poor despite national debt. It denounces luxury, avarice, and exporters' profits as inhumane and barbarous.
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OCR Quality
98%
Excellent
Full Text
The great scarcity of wheat in the countries bordering on the Mediterranean, and many ports of Europe, which has raised it to a very high price, has, together with the bounty allowed in England occasioned a very great exportation from, thence, notwithstanding the cries of the poor for want of it !
[How luxury and avarice steel the heart against the feelings of humanity ! How monstrous is it for a nation, sinking under the load of an enormous debt, to pay a bounty on such an article ! A bounty for starving the industrious poor, and most useful inhabitants of the land ! How barbarous for the exporter, who makes an extravagant profit by the trade itself, to claim or receive such a bounty from his exhausted country, for the destruction of his fellow subjects ! Surely this is properly the price of blood ! ]
[How luxury and avarice steel the heart against the feelings of humanity ! How monstrous is it for a nation, sinking under the load of an enormous debt, to pay a bounty on such an article ! A bounty for starving the industrious poor, and most useful inhabitants of the land ! How barbarous for the exporter, who makes an extravagant profit by the trade itself, to claim or receive such a bounty from his exhausted country, for the destruction of his fellow subjects ! Surely this is properly the price of blood ! ]
What sub-type of article is it?
Economic Policy
Moral Or Religious
Agriculture
What keywords are associated?
Wheat Scarcity
Export Bounty
England Policy
Poor Starvation
Luxury Avarice
National Debt
What entities or persons were involved?
England
The Poor
Exporters
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Criticism Of Wheat Export Bounty In England
Stance / Tone
Strongly Critical Of Bounty And Luxury
Key Figures
England
The Poor
Exporters
Key Arguments
Scarcity Of Wheat In Mediterranean And European Ports Raises Prices
England's Bounty Causes Great Exportation Despite Poor's Need
Luxury And Avarice Harden Hearts Against Humanity
Monstrous For Debt Burdened Nation To Pay Export Bounty
Bounty Starves Industrious Poor And Useful Inhabitants
Barbarous For Exporters To Claim Bounty Profiting At Countrymen's Expense
Such Bounty Is The Price Of Blood