the Company, and do
nothing to antagonize the interests of the Company. There is in
this no claim that Mr. Smith had ever neglected his duty, and the
whole thing narrows down to the fact that he had incurred the
enmity of the liquor dealers, who induced the Company to dismiss
him. This action of the Company may please the men who hired a
thug to assault Mr. Smith, and nearly batter his life out, but it
is a poor way to make friends of peaceful citizens. It speaks
poorly for personal liberty when a man is dismissed from a
railway because he opposes the liquor traffic,--a traffic which
the Company itself acknowledges to be wrong when it requires its
employees not to touch liquor while on duty."

In _The Templar_ of November 23d appeared these remarks with reference
to one paper which upheld the C. P. R.:

"The dismissal of Mr. W. W. Smith from the services of the C. P.
R., because he was obnoxious to illicit whiskey sellers in Brome
County, has evoked strong expression of disapproval from not a
few of the papers of the Dominion.

"Others have preserved a silence, or feebly and unfairly stated
the case, not daring to rebuke the C. P. R. So far as we know,
the Hamilton _Spectator_ alone has had the courage to defend the
gross injustice done a fellow-citizen, and its defence is
peculiar.

"Would _The Spectator_ permit us to clear the issue? _The
Templar_, in giving the C. P. R.-Smith correspondence to the
public, pointed out the danger to the country involved in
suffering the C. P. R. contention to prevail. If that corporation
can justly dismiss a man because he employs a portion of his time
off duty to demand respect for the law of the land, on the ground
that he is antagonizing the interests of the Company, may it not
logically demand, under pain of dismissal, that he shall vote as
the Company judges to be in its interests? What right has the
citizen that the Canadian Pacific Railway may not require him to
give up to serve its ends? Is _The Spectator_ prepared to defend
such tyranny, and, yes, we will say it--treason to the State?"

Not only the journals of the Canadian Interior, but those of the
Maritime Provinces as well, showed their interest in this affair,
which had so aroused the temperance people of Quebec and Ontario. The
following, published in _The