Templar_, is taken from _The
Intelligencer_, Fredericton, New Brunswick:

"We have set out the facts of the case at some length, because it
involves much more than the position and prospects of the
dismissed official. His case is certainly a hard one. It is not
denied that for fifteen years he served the Railway Company
faithfully. No charge of neglect of duty is made against him.
Even the charge of the rumsellers, that he used information
obtained as the Company's officer to aid in their prosecution, is
not proven. He denies it, and the Assistant Superintendent admits
that he has failed to find proof of it.

"But in spite of this, the Company, yielding to the clamorings of
the rum gang, dismiss an officer against whom it has not been
possible to make any charge of neglect, and not even to
substantiate the complaints of those who were bent upon his
dismissal. Mr. Smith's offense was that he was too good a citizen
to suit the views of the outlaws who are engaged in the illicit
rum-traffic. They sought to take his life, hiring one of their
own brutal gang to commit the murder. The attempt was made, but
failing to kill him, they renewed their efforts to have him
dismissed. And in this they were more successful. It is scarcely
possible that the outlawed rumsellers of Brome County had
sufficient influence alone, to accomplish Mr. Smith's discharge.
They were probably backed by the traffic in Montreal and
elsewhere. And this goes to show that the traffic is one; that
distillers, brewers, wholesalers and saloon and hotel keepers are
united; that licensed and illicit sellers make common cause, and
that they use their awful power not only to defy all laws and
regulations which hamper them, but are ready to rob of their
means of livelihood, and their good name, and even to murder such
men as they think stand in their way. These are things which
might be expected of the traffic. But it is quite amazing that a
great corporation like the C. P. R. should become its ally. Most
employers would stand by an employee who had suffered at the
hands of murderous ruffians, because of his sympathy with law
enforcement, and the promotion of the moral welfare of his
community. But the Assistant Superintendent of the C. P. R.,
under whom Mr. Smith worked, was not move