o have souls or
conscience. Nobody expects them to have any, and consequently no
one is angry when they show that they have not. Quite apart from
all questions of morals, the money interests of the Company are
those of the country, and the liquor business does not promote
the business of the country. Moreover, it is in the interest of
the railway, and eminently so of its customers, to have railway
servants protected from drink, and the enforcement of the laws
against liquor is the most direct way to protect them from drink.
This is all by the way, however; Companies are not abstract
reasoners.

"But there is that in this action of the Canadian Pacific Railway
Company which the public are inclined to resent even at the hands
of a Company. In the first place the Company declares that it so
values the custom of the liquor men of Brome, that it can afford
for their sake to boycott the advocates of temperance and the
enforcers of law. A station agent, or even a superior officer,
might be long and notoriously a victim of these same liquor men,
and still remain an officer of the Company, but if he becomes
their active enemy, and the active friend of mankind, he is
dismissed. This is and it is evidently accepted as being a
challenge to all friends of law and order, who are in a position
to make the Company suffer in its sensitive pockets, to show
whether the custom of the friends of law cannot be made as
powerful an engine for the defence of right as that of the
enemies of law and order is for the defence of crime. This is
what temperance men throughout the country seem to be turning
over in their minds just now, and are likely to go on doing so,
so long as the position taken by Mr. Brady towards Mr. Smith
remains the approved action of the Company, and so long as one
holding the intolerable views of Mr. Brady remains its approved
agent.

"There is another aspect of the Company's action through Mr.
Brady which is rankling in the minds of the wage-earning
population. Mr. Brady told Mr. Smith that the Company wanted all
his time, and was going to have it, and that whether on duty or
off it would not allow him to give temperance lectures. It is not
sufficient to answer that this is not the position of the
Company; that its employees, as a ru