'I am very pleased with the Farmers Union. I hope they will stick to it, and not be drawn away to any Producers Union, or other sham. The only mistake some of the newspapers are making is leading people to suppose that they can lower the custom duties. What they ought to aim at (among other objects) is to get rid of all protective duties, whose obvious tendency is to take money from the settlers (county ones especially) to put it into the pockets of manufacturers and their operatives. There ought to be a cheap pamphlet on this aspect of the subject circulated widely.