New-York tribune., 1869-03-13
The u moaso @ mon adjourned until Monday noAt.
+. II. DERBY or BOSTON ON mon PRICE

f. II. DERBY OF BOSTON ON HIGH PRICES
BOsrON March 12.-Last evening, at the regu-
lar meeting Of the Social Science Association T. H. Derby
esa OF this city, delivered address High Prices"
and the causes increase In the cost OF living The
speaker said that ths not due as many supposed TO
the influx OF gold silver for the effect Of the
metals had been cOunteracted by the progress OF art by
improved agriculture, mechanism, and transportation
record OF prices had been kept at the Hospital OF st.
Tbonag in London for the last eighty years. ana IL ap
peared from this that there had been no advance since
the adoption OF our Constitution In 1885, in the aggregate
nrce of food and clothing. In 1900 the prices OF wheat
beef mutton, and cotton yarn, was higher In London
than they to-day and the price In London regulated
the price here of food and clothing IN the bonded ware are
house The effect Of the influx OF gold on PROVISIONS had
been by rotatop 0f crops by turp culture
guano, bone dust phosphates, ana % onGahkS ey i
ihe system ia France which In small ifcehOhs pro,
duced more wheat ana sugar nan le Nhea 'ates anu
by fact that commerce now snppheu "oOi lIon "a -,
Plata and Australia aud that one man now sRnn, 500
THREADS n place OF one by means OF machinery WIN us
the great advance IN fOod ana eiotnhb nau Dren 30
l9GO owing In legislation 10 the increase Oh
xes and Jarin 10 inflated currency ana 70 inc ocu
ation Of broken promises dscIedapiGo g. 10 cou'y % p
rich aud prosperous this Before the war our paper
circulation was GZ19oo1 ~ I az nV ,sas annt i;o oo0
had higher, and rs honest Naino W'is & Gt m -
no We have AT least S2OO00OOOiu gOld ~ tle colh
ry $500 600 bank bills, and II we should iuha tSVo
100000 Of legal tenders III Ihtee per P, C % nnd soon
convertible into four and balI per cents We Sno & tI
t ~ food ana clothing Congress had not the courage
~ act and Inc would "a setactng machine IKE tbe
Mn Lc0nntrv reminded him OF nci man in theinteror,
Isho In prior war Hooded the country with his tO notes
~ crrenev and when peace came, ana gOd came O'oh'
a. td az nav them He ascribed hall the rise 10 cur
Tency the other half 10 taxes and duties no .eSSs @
sorv We nave paid our war expenses ana Dounles ahu
CO.. nov, ming down national expenditures Tor every
thing but interest to seOOOOC Our income was stated stated
a tey days snce on the floor OF Congress Dy lhe ona
nd ~ he Committee on Ways and Means as NsooVOo
above our ougoes for expenses ana Interest, our & ea
ogs in ood Values exceeded our imports We sent OUT
loo 600 o6G gallons OF petroleum. produced tOVo Oh
gold and our Southern crops were wort S od %
lore the war Our interest nOW-tl2oUV'oVC oouIu we
reduced 10 sOO 900 by applying FUNDS anu currency
ON hand to the reduction OF the dest our tan aca o .
az 20 cents was now yielding fi0ODOO ~ Pdce VI ~,
600 GOO last year Tobacco aud beer anu S nP @
ana tobacco yielded than A7yVoVi 49, t su in, m If
wears more liquors and tobacco WouIu pa5 o,d na ,or
ibe debt hight tax on banks and Licenses Souu psL ro
nensions aud might then repeal al ,h JIM" a, r de-
iaEes aud fall back 10 our tarln pei1ro ,ore tormer
srend from A 20 - per cent and thus ,n adarnss
tecs An interesting discussion followed tne huuress'