 His campaigning on behalf of free trade led to his becoming an honorary member of the Cobden Club.From its foundation until 1891, Pulsford was secretary of the FTLA, and became an organiser and ferocious pamphleteer.He received a prize for an essay on "The Beneficial Influence of a Free Trade Policy upon the Colony of New South Wales", written as a contribution to the 1887 centennial edition of the Year-Book of Australia.