as this Company is concerned. They demand the
whole and entire time of their men, and they are going to have
it.' Short, sharp, peremptory this, but is also a high-handed
proceeding--an infringement upon personal rights. It does not
appear that this man had been derelict in duty to his employers,
or that he took the time that belonged to them in promoting the
cause of temperance. His only offence was that, while
conscientious in daily work, he thought of others, and labored
for their welfare in his spare moments. For that he incurred
official reprobation, and was given the choice of quitting
temperance work or the Company.

"The railway magnates claimed entire control over all his time,
whether on duty or off duty, demanding in their tautological
language, 'The whole and entire time' of their men, and bluffly
adding that 'they are going to have it.' They would leave no room
for doubt, parley or protest. Accordingly, nothing was left a man
of conscience but to retire and seek employment where he could
exercise a little personal liberty. It is no new thing for men to
give up railway positions on conscientious grounds, when
compelled to work on the Sabbath, but this is the first instance
we have known where a Railway Company has forced a person out of
its employ because of his temperance principles. In our country,
other things being equal, total abstainers are preferred by
railway men. This Canadian Company is away behind the age."

An affair like this must indeed be very widely discussed, and awaken
considerable interest, when the general opinion in any place with
regard to it is published in the local news from that vicinity, yet
the following paragraph appeared among other items in the _Witness_ of
November 24th, as Danville news:

"Railways have a right to all the time of employees in hours of
duty, but many are grieved at the action of the Canadian Pacific
Railway in demanding of Mr. W. W. Smith, whom they dismissed for
activity in the temperance cause, that he must not give any of
his time to it when off duty, as such demand is un-British and
strongly in the direction of serfdom. Many spirited people are
going to resent the injustice."

Various associations discussed this dismissal in their meetings, and
passed resolutions concerning it. The following is an extrac