What is this but telling the people of Ireland, that assassination, murder, incendiarism, are of such light consideration in the eyes of the Secretary of State, that their sanction or suppression by the minister of the crown hinges upon the condition of the corn market and the difference in the price of potatoes?
From a biography, Disraeli uses a rhetorical question to criticize the government's perceived indifference to Irish violence, linking it to economic policy.
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