But, to do this, we must cut down the prices now paid for making up our clothes.

In this way, we shall be able to greatly increase our sales, with but a slight reduction upon our present rates of profit." "But will our workmen stand it?
Our needlewomen, particularly, work very low now." "They'll have to stand it!" replied Grasp; "most of them are glad to get work at any price.

Women, with half a dozen hungry mouths around them, don't stand long to higgle about a few cents in a garment, when there are so many willing to step in and take their places.
Besides, what are three or four cents to them on a vest, or pair of pants, or jacket?
The difference in a week is small and will not be missed--or, at the worst, will only require them to economize with a little steadier hand; while upon the thousands of garments we dispose of here, and send away to other markets, it will make a most important aggregate on the right side of profit and loss." "There is no doubt of that," replied the partner, the idea of the aggregate of three or four cents on each garment occupying his mind, and obscuring completely, for a time, every other idea.

"Well, I'm with you," he said, after a little while, "in any scheme for increasing profits.

Getting along at the rate of only some two or three thousand a year is rather slow work.