ABOUT THE FARMERS' LEAGUE.
To the Editor of the Evening Star. Sir,—Mainly, Mr H. S. Andrews' letter of last evening is good; perhaps only rather too verbose. He agrees with me that tariffs are wrong, but despairs of their abolition. Here I differ. Certainly the alleged wrong must first be demonstrated. The principal element in my notion of that which the daily secular newspapers often call the millenium, is, the total extirpation from our world of all wrongs, effected gradually by the agency of true men, not unaided, and by the instrumentality, chiefly, of discussion. Only be it ours to put ourselves into union with that agency and to ply that instrument, and— nil desperandum. Look at the recent marvellous progress in the British Parliament! I am; &c, W. E. S.
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Auckland Star, Volume III, Issue 638, 27 January 1872, Page 3
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131ABOUT THE FARMERS' LEAGUE. Auckland Star, Volume III, Issue 638, 27 January 1872, Page 3
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