He would be free to sell his goods at cost, or even below cost, if that suited his fancy.

Instead of this, however, the profits on his articles are often the same that they were when prices were ten or fifteen per cent.

higher, and he reaps the advantage of a greatly increased sale, consequent upon the more moderate rates at which he can sell.

The evil lies in his cutting down his operatives' wages; in taking off of them, while they make no party to his voluntary reduction of prices, the precise amount that he throws in to his customer as a temptation to buy more freely.

But to the promised dialogue-- "Money don't come in hand-over-fist, as it ought to come," remarked Grasp, of the flourishing firm of Grasp & Co., Merchant Tailors, of Boston, to the junior partner of the establishment.