With us _half_ a dollar buys more than a _dollar_ buys with you--and THEREFORE it stands to reason and the commonest kind of common-sense, that our wages are _higher_ than yours." He looked dazed, and said, despairingly: "Verily, I cannot make it out.

Ye've just said ours are the higher, and with the same breath ye take it back." "Oh, great Scott, isn't it possible to get such a simple thing through your head?
Now look here--let me illustrate.

We pay four cents for a woman's stuff gown, you pay 8.4.0, which is four mills more than _double_.

What do you allow a laboring woman who works on a farm ?" "Two mills a day." "Very good; we allow but half as much; we pay her only a tenth of a cent a day; and--" "Again ye're conf--" "Wait! Now, you see, the thing is very simple; this time you'll understand it.

For instance, it takes your woman 42 days to earn her gown, at 2 mills a day--7 weeks' work; but ours earns hers in forty days--two days _short_ of 7 weeks.