e C. P. R., I have advocated its claims against all
other transcontinental routes, especially have I compared it with
the Grand Trunk Railway, and advised my friends to patronize the
former. Now, however, as a free and law-abiding citizen I must,
on principle, change my method unless Mr. Tait, or some one else,
can explain the act of the Company. If both employees interested
in the Sutton matter had been dismissed, I could see that there
was an honest effort on the part of the Company to do justly, but
as it is I can only see underneath all this the intention of the
Company to favor the lawbreakers of Brome and liquor interests
generally at the expense of the temperance and Christian
community. If my views are wrong, and anyone will do me the
kindness to correct them, I shall owe him a debt of gratitude;
for I am exceedingly loath to believe such things of the
management of our noble Canadian Pacific Railway. Until then,
however, I must say that I shall not travel on one mile of the C.
P. R. when I can take another line. I am constantly on the road
between Quebec and Toronto, with headquarters in Montreal. I take
this stand not by choice nor caprice, but on the principles of a
free citizen."

The following is an extract from a letter discussing the same subject,
published in _The Templar_ of Jan. 4th, 1895, and signed J. W. Shaw:

"Without giving names, let me state what I have learned directly
affecting the moneyed interests of the C. P. R. Thinking of
visiting a certain station on one of their lines I asked a friend
who had just returned from it: 'What is the fare to that place?'
He replied, 'I don't know; I never buy a ticket; I can't say.'
When remonstrated with, he just said: 'I pay whatever is handy,
sometimes more and sometimes less!' Another individual, in the
habit of travelling in the same way, and boasting of his
smartness, casually remarked: 'My trip this time was a failure,
for Conductor ---- was on the train, and you know I could not
work him.' It did me good to hear that, for the conductor in
question is a well-known gospel and temperance worker, who labors
as he has opportunity for the uplifting of fallen humanity. On
this low plane then it would pay these companies to employ such
conductors, and give them all the scope required outside