The Archive · 1914

Opium and Rubber

To the Editor of the "Nonra-Carsa Darcy News."

Sim,—How you have arrived at the sum of Tls. 5,000,000, as representing the loss consequent upon the rubber boom is an enigma to me. I can assure you it was not Tls. 5,000,000 but more than Tis.

T shall say nothing about opium. The sophistry gleaming through almost every alternate line of your arguments in favour of the pro-elongation of the trade makes me literally sick.

Iam, ete., gaged in it. Nietzsche wrote that|ber prices have nothing to do with the Hence an estimate of Fla. 5,000,000 is correct.—Ed.

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