Landlords and farmers
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
English agricultural interests who sincerely believed protectionist corn laws benefited the whole nation, illustrating interest-shaped opinion.
Landlords and farmers who found their gain in keeping up the price of corn were in general perfectly honest protectionists, and were convinced that protection, by rendering the country self-supporting and extending the sphere of agriculture, was of the greatest benefit to the nation.
Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century
Agricultural proprietors and tenant farmers who prospered during the war but were disoriented by post-war price collapse and plentiful harvests
The land-owners and farmers had done well during the troubled period.
But the war, that great and most extravagant customer to farmers, manufacturers, and other producers of wealth, having come to an end, those who were most anxious to obtain some of their superabundant supplies of food and manufactures in return for useful work were prevented from doing so by the fact that they could not be employed at a profit.