d by such consideration,
a mere sentimental consideration he would probably call it. He
preferred to cooeperate with the rum traffic--to become its tool.

"We find it difficult to believe that the General Manager or the
Directors can approve the dismissal of an employee for the reason
stated in this case. If they do, then men interested in
temperance reform can no longer have a place in the employ of the
Company. And further, the Company declares its willingness to be
known not only as the ally of the legalized rum traffic, but as
the friend and helper of the outlaws and would-be murderers of
the traffic.

"This case should not be allowed to fade out of the memory of the
people. It asserts the right of an employer, not only to the
time of the employee, but to his conscience, his sense of the
duties of good citizenship, and his self-respect. If permitted,
unrebuked and uncorrected, it helps to establish the right of
capital to do any unjust and tyrannical thing, either of its own
will or at the dictation of the conscienceless rum traffic, or of
other organized evil.

"There ought, certainly, be some way of getting redress for what
on the face of it appears to be an act of cruel injustice, done
at the behest of the rum traffic, legal and illicit.

"Not those alone who are interested in temperance, but every man
who believes that men are other than serfs, and who would have
established beyond question the right of a man to have his own
conscience in matters which relate to himself and the community,
should be concerned to make impossible such tyrannical exercise
of power."

Not only the Canadian, but some of the American papers also, took up
the cry of tyranny, as is shown by the following, which was published
in the _Presbyterian Observer_, Philadelphia, and repeated in the
Montreal _Witness_:

"A Canadian Railway Company has been guilty of a piece of mean
persecution against one of its agents on account of his
temperance activity. The station master at Sutton Junction, of
the Canadian Pacific Railway, in the Province of Quebec, was
recently notified that he 'must quit temperance work, or quit the
Company.' The letter further states the ground upon which this
action is based. 'It makes no difference whether you are on duty
or off duty, so far