The employe under the modern system is less subject to petty spite and unjust interference on the part of his employer.

In this sense he is more free.

But on the other hand, he has lost that guarantee against utter destitution and degradation afforded by the humanity of the better class of masters.

He has exchanged a human nexus for a "cash nexus." The nominal freedom of this cash relationship is in the case of the upper strata of workmen probably a real freedom; the irresponsibility of their employers has educated them to more self-reliance, and strengthened a healthy personality in them.

It is the lower class of workers who suffer.