The important thing for you is that he is the middleman on whom you depend for the disease.
In like manner, so my friend asserts, the writer is the middleman through whom the public gets its supply of pessimism.
The middleman then proceeded to grind the tenants at his leisure and discretion in order to make the best of his bargain.
The result was, that while the tenant starved and the landlord got less than his due in consideration of being saved from annoyance, the middleman gradually accumulated money.
With rapid transportation and the lengthening distance between producer and consumer, the function of the middleman has grown and his power vastly increased.
Legislatures and the national Congress are taking notice; likewise the railroads; but the middleman remains unterrified, secure in his speculative castle.
While the middlemanof the absentee landlord racked the wretched cotter for his rent, the middleman of the absentee parson racked him for his tithes.
Eight Colors--it used to be Alpha Transshipping--is what they call a middleman outfit.
The middleman outfits arrange for orderly and businesslike liaison between the two.
Hence arises the popular cry against the wicked middleman who stands between producer and consumer, and takes the bulk of the profit.
The middleman who stands between the employing firm and the worker is of three forms.
Some, indeed, have represented this sweating middleman as one who thrusts himself between the proper employer and the working man in order to make a gain for himself without performing any service.
The complaint that the middleman confers no service, and deserves no pay, is the result of two fallacies.
Now in none of these cases is the middleman a mere parasite.
At any stage in the production of these goods, previous to their final distribution, the middleman may come in and take his profit for no visible work done.
But this is by no means generally the case with the middleman in his capacity of "sweater.
The "sweating" middleman does work which is at present necessary; he gets pay; if we think he gets too much, are we prepared with any rule to determine even approximately how much he ought to get?
If the middleman is a capitalist he may get something for use of his capital; but that too implies that his capital is put to some useful work.
So the middleman in his various capacities may be dispensed with, if the organization of industrial society is so changed that he is no longer required; but until such changes are affected he must get, and deserves, his pay.
Antiquated political economists tell us that the middleman is useful to everyone, and that the man who gambles with other folk's money is a benefactor.
No one with a clear gaze on the future can delude himself that the middleman is a permanent institution, to be preserved and commended.
The middlemanmakes the tenant pay an excessive rent because he insists upon making an excessive profit.
If it was not the real owner of the house, it was the middleman or person or persons between the owner and the tenant.
The middleman has no character to lose; and he knew, when he took up the occupation, that it was one with which pity had nothing to do.
A middleman might be tied up by the strongest legal restriction, as to the price he was to exact from the under-tenants, and then he would be no more pernicious to the estate than a steward.
A thirdmiddleman would parcel his up into small divisions and sublet at an enormous profit.
The middleman divided his portion and sublet the same at about treble the rent he was paying his head landlord.
The middleman of the Eighteenth Century were the very scum of society and the seeds of immorality.
The number depends more or less upon whether the middleman at any stage finds it more advantageous to deal with one next to him in the general series or to pass one or more and deal with another farther away.
In some cases they may be as indispensable as the abused middleman in matters economic.
That when this now highly emendated tenement was brought to the best condition of excellence of which it was susceptible, the middleman landlord--va miseris agricolis!
A Middleman Magistrate of the Old School, and his Clerk.
It is unnecessary to say that he was grieved at the painful consequences of the middleman system, and of sub-letting in general.
A simple order which, nevertheless, must have had far-reaching results, since it introduced the middleman between the English merchants and the people of India; an unscrupulous middleman also.
Why should not the Government as a land-owner deal directly with the oil producer rather than through the intervention of a middleman to whom the Government gives title to the land?
To the functions of the entrepreneur we shall return in the next chapter; here it is the middleman proper who is our chief concern.
Still later it is a middleman who offers raw hides to the tanner, and who sees that the wholesale leather merchant comes into business contact with the tanner.
The chief stages of shoe manufacture may serve to illustrate the great importance of the middleman in exchange.
When, under the direction of the entrepreneur, the shoe has been manufactured, it is often a middleman who connects the shoe wholesaler with the finished product.
The primary function of the middleman is to act as a connecting link between various industrial enterprises.
We have seen what the middleman does; it remains to point out how, or by means of what mechanism, he performs his functions.
Illustrate the functions of the middleman with reference to the shoe industry.
The abuses must be checked and discriminations removed, whether in the middleman trade itself, rates of express companies and other carriers, or stock-market gambling.
I recognize the service of the middlemanto society.
I have no desire that society (or government) engage in the middleman business or that it take over private enterprise; but no government can expect to throw back on the producer the responsibility of controlling the middleman.
There is little danger that the legitimate business of any honest middlemanwill be interfered with.
The middleman system has had a free field to play in, the wealth of the country to handle; it has exercised its license, and in too many cases it has become parasitic, either protected by law and custom or unreachable by law or custom.
When we finally eliminate combinations in restraint of trade, the middleman abuses may be in the process of passing out.
Even if he has been successful as a middleman or manufacturer or merchant, it does not at all follow that he would be successful as a farmer.
But there is no reason why he should not know this middleman personally and insist upon a method of buying that will pay him upon the merits of his goods.
The isolated poultryman, unless he find a market at his very door, will do better to permit at least one middleman to slip in between himself and the consumer.
Middleman is supposed to have a faint, very faint sense of humour, and that's the only way people get at him.
Mr. Aix says Middleman can run up an author's sales twenty per cent.
It has created at the same time a division of labor that includes all the nations and races of men and incidentally has raised the despised middleman to a position of affluence and power undreamed of by superior classes of any earlier age.
As long as production for one's own needs is the general rule, or products are exchanged within a relatively narrow circle, there is no need of any middleman within the group.
It was in the eighteenth century and in England that we first find any general recognition of the new rôle that commerce and the middleman were to play in the modern world.
I happened to be at Rome shor' time ago, and I met Middleman there.
Middleman had the whole run of this chap's studio.
The age, too, had become more liberal and humane; the middleman was got rid of in not a few districts; the absentee landlords devoted more attention to their estates than they had ever devoted before.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "middleman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
