But in spite of this, whether the "Jew sweater" is really a competent tailor or is a mere "organizer" of poor labour, it should be distinctly understood that he is paid for the performance of real work, which under the present industrial system has a use.
Sec.6.Different Species of Middlemen .-- It may be well here to say something on the general position of the "middleman" in commerce.

The popular notion that the "middleman" is a useless being, and that if he could be abolished all would go well, arises from a confusion of thought which deserves notice.

This confusion springs from a failure to understand that the "middleman" is a part of a commercial System.

He is not a mere intruder, a parasitic party, who forces his way between employer and worker, or between producer and consumer, and without conferring any service, extracts for himself a profit which involves a loss to the worker or the consumer, or to both.

If we examine this notion, either by reference to facts, or from _a priori_ consideration, we shall find it based on a superstition.