The inconsistency of an employer's being compelled to formally recognize some society as a factor in his business, before a member of that society will be allowed to work for him, has been enunciated by the appellate division of the New York Supreme Court. A decision has been rendered to the effect that “a labor union has not the right to order its men to quit work where they are in receipt of the wages demanded by the organization, and where there is no attempt to employ non-union workers, but where the only question over which there is any difference is a refusal of the employer to recognize the union or its representative.” That an employer, in engaging the services of an adult person, should have to deal with any one but the individual, is the extreme of inconsistency in a professedly free country. And that an adult person, professing to be a free man, should put himself in a position where he can not engage his services to an employer without the consent of some utterly irresponsible third party, is the extreme of absurdity in a professedly free country. Is it because self-government is a failure in this land of boasted independence, that laboring men are so hastily rushing into the unions and federations to give away their liberty? If this government does run into a condition of monarchism (as appearances indicate), it will be because the common people will have it so.