t from a
report, which appeared in the _Witness_ of November 20th, of a meeting
of the Quebec Evangelical Alliance, held in the city of Quebec just
previous:

"It was also voted that the following resolution be placed on
record, and a copy furnished to the press for publication:

"'That this Alliance voice its sympathy through the press with
the different moral and religious organizations of the Province,
which have taken action condemnatory of the arbitrary procedure
of the management of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the
dismissal of Mr. Smith, their station agent at Sutton Junction,
for no other offence than that of being deeply interested in the
moral and religious welfare of the people of his own district.

"'And further, that this Alliance regrets that the Canadian
Pacific Railway, as a Company subsidized by the Government of
Canada, should see fit to interfere with the civil and religious
rights of its employees, and ally itself with those who are
evading established law, and doing their utmost to destroy social
order in this country.

"'And this Alliance is of the opinion that if the Canadian
Pacific Railway management seriously desires to retain the
sympathy and support of the best element in the community in
building up their business as public carriers, they will, at the
earliest possible moment, do full justice to their late agent,
Mr. Smith.'"

The following, also published in the _Witness_, is from a report of
the meeting of a temperance society in one of the sister Provinces:

"PRESCOTT, Ont., Dec. 5th.--The forty-fifth session of the Grand
Division of the Sons of Temperance was held here to-day. The
question of the discharge of Mr. W. W. Smith, of Sutton Junction,
by the Canadian Pacific Railway, for his loyalty to the
temperance cause, was brought up, the following report of a
special committee on the subject being unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, Mr. W. W. Smith of Sutton Junction, President of the
Brome County Alliance, in the Province of Quebec, whose attempted
assassination for his fidelity to law and order is a public fact,
has been summarily dismissed from his position as agent of the
Canadian Pacific Railway, for the express reason of his advocacy
of the cause of temperance, this Grand Division desires to
express the view t