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When news of the Alaska gold rush reached New Siberia, Welzl caught the fever, mushed across the Arctic ice to get his share. But he soon, like Denver's Horace Austin Warner Tabor, made up his mind that the only golddiggers who made fortunes were the middlemen; he went back to hunting and trapping for a living. "Gold-digging," says he, "is a horrid occupation, but a bit better than begging." In Alaska and northern Canada he met many an eccentric adventurer. Dawson Tom was a cardsharp whose favorite dodge for getting free drinks was to produce what looked...
...bore on all equally, how it did not discriminate like an excise tax among industries, how it could be easily collected and. above all, how it would bring in enough money to balance the Budget. They also argued that the tax would be absorbed by competing manufacturers and middlemen, would not be actually felt by consumers...
...employers have abandoned their rigid demands which would have led to lengthy legal proceedings, while the employees seem willing to make a sacrifice for their security and for the benefit of the country at large. That it was more urgent to decrease first the income of capital and of middlemen is almost universally admitted, but the reduction of wages, in keeping with what economists believe is the beginning of a long period of slowly falling prices, is another necessary step towards sound conditions of industry...
Moscow & The Miller. Not in the least excited last week were millers, middlemen of wheat, who like to see it as cheap as possible. The Miller, organ of Great Britain's milling industry, waxed cheerful even over Dictator Stalin's policy of taking food out of Russian mouths to "dump" abroad...
When country producers collaborate to improve their incomes, they receive the blessing of the U. S. government and loans from the Federal Farm Board. When city middlemen similarly collaborate, they tread dangerous ground. They may be racketeers...