Possibly as sellers, in the elasticity of their consciences, they may have set a higher price than they would be willing to give as buyers.

In strict honesty, however, it is difficult to see why labor should not be worth to them as much in the one case as the other.

The rate of wages fixed upon in Antigua may be seen by a reference to the Journal of Thome and Kimball to be very inadequate to the wants of the laborer.

Free labor is there screwed down to the lowest possible point.

The wonder is that the laborers should have submitted to such a scale for a moment.