Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-08
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR,

MT. Editor: Ideas, like driftwood, ai- ways come floating in after a storm. As you walk along the shore of the great pond" 1t is both interesting and instructive to view and study the strewn wreckage. So it is with ideas: they also are interesting and instruc- tive. It is a grand thing to have an idea A person having several of them is not very dangerous; that is, provid- ed they are of the right kind.
 Since Senator Aldrich started the storm on the financa1 question ideas rooms in the night. Not many days since I received letter from gentle man, and he is not "hayseed," what ever he may have been in his younger days, while sowing his wild oats" This gentleman, 1t appears, has caught an idea" he has one, anyway, how ever he came in possession of it. And. would you believe it, this idea is in relation to the money question" He seems to have gotten into "the right church" but "the wrong pew" But let that pass. as long as he is in the church. he will be under cover. No doubt but he will find the right pew, only give him time. He appears to have heard of an elastic currency" which he enthusiastically believes in, or thinks he dc es.s And of what ma terial do you think he proposes to make this "elastic currency? Why, rubber" of course. He calls this a new variety"
 He doesn't even insinuate which is new" the elasticity or the material. One thing about it is, 1t is young, for he says it is now in an "embryonic" state, and he fears 1t has enemies.
 This gentleman seems to be ecstat- fcally soaring up to dizzy heights over his new discovery, but I pity the poor fellow, for when the gas oozes out of the rubber" balloon. he may Tight" hard. want to say kindly and sym pathetically to the gentleman. that his "conf1dence' was miscplaced. when he asks me to join issues" with him. His fatal mistake was in not asking the Rhode Island senator, instead of an old-time dealer in "charcoal,' for the senator is well versed in the "outs and ins" of an elastic currency" hav- ing been in the house of lords" for perhaps more proper to say senate), there long enough to know most of the outs and ins. But I want to say to this enthusiastic gentleman. that 1 fear he is counting his chickens be- fore they are matched. He should have been cautioned to look before he leaps. Someone of his friends should have whispered in his ear that the Rubber IT uSL OWLS anu COIltrOlS all LH6 Tup- Der after 1t leaves the one-handed rubber pickers down in the Congo State, where King Leopold is monarch of all he surveys.
 But perhaps the gentleman does not mean, literally. to have a rubber cur rency," in fact, but simply to use it as a base. a security for note issues, owing to it's great intrinsic value. No one will dispute its value(?O or rather it's cost, that ever had occasion to pur- chase a pair of what is called rub ber(?) boots, as I am informed that a pair of such boots contains only about teaspoonful of the Congo State fluid. The remainder is composed of-well, say shoddy. But then, one should not complain, for when we part with one of the five-dollar note issues for a pair of these boots, if we have enough confidence aboard, we know we have our moneys worth. Valuable goods