APPENDIX. 



G13 



TABLES OF DR. A. SOETBEEK. 



Relative Prices of 100 Leading Articles in Hamburg, and 14 articles of British 

 export^ original, and as transposed by Aldrich Committee to correspond with 

 American tables. 



See Diagram XH'. (page 642). 



The course of silver as compared with commodities has been shown in 

 diagram V. in which it is seen that according to the computations of Dr. 

 Sauerbeck it follows commodity prices quite closely. In that diagram silver is 

 simply considered as one commodity compared as to price, with the average of 

 forty-five other commodities in England, a country of gold standard. It 

 would be interesting to compare with the gold prices, heretofore given, the 

 course of silver pi'ices in countries with the silver standard. Unfortunately the 

 data for this are very meager. Mr. F. J. Atkinson has made a laborious cal- 

 culation of the course of silver prices in India, which is to be found in the 

 Journal of the Royal Statistical Society for 1897, and extends from 1861 to 1895. 

 I also find upon page 463 of a U. S. Senate Document entitled "Coinage Laws 

 of the United States" (Government Printing Office, 1894) a table of index 

 numbers of prices of twenty Chinese staple commodities from 1873 to 1892, and 

 printed without comment. So far as I know there are no other data covering 

 this branch of the inquiry. As will be seen below they hardly agree at any 

 point. The calculations of Mr. Atkinson, given in full in the place of original 

 publication, give evidence of a great amount of labor intelligently applied, but 

 for reasons fully set forth by Mr. Atkinson, do not throw much light upon the 



