text:  It is the cunning policy of the heterogeneous opponents of the existing corn-laws to speak of them as "doomed" by a sort of universal tacit consent; to familiarise the public with the notion that the recent remodeling of the system is to be regarded as constituting it into nothing more than a sort of transition-measure--a stepping-stone towards a great fundamental change by the adoption of "a fixed duty " some say--"a total repeal " say the Anti-corn-law League