d dangerous
complications. Fractures unite slowly, if at all, and wounds of a
grave nature, such as those requiring the loss of a limb, are
almost sure to end fatally. No employee can afford to take such
risks, and the Railway Company cannot assume such
responsibilities.' This rule has, in fact, been revised within
the last few months, and couched in more prohibitory language,
and will shortly be issued to the employees in that form. Along
our line there are thousands of its officials who are every day
insisting on the practice of temperance. They deal with the
engagement of subordinates and the conduct and efficiency of
persons in our employment in such a way as to show that
temperance is indispensable to the efficiency of our employees,
to the conduct of the Company's business, and to the success and
promotion of the workmen themselves, but this is done in respect
of matters which are entirely within their jurisdiction as
officers of the Company.

"There are, unfortunately, many questions upon which the public
hold different opinions so strongly that they are virtually
divided into opposing classes, and it is impossible for any one
prominently and publicly to advocate either side of any of these
questions, without immediately raising a strong feeling of
opposition in a considerable portion of the community, who take
the opposite side. These questions are of different kinds,
religious, political, social, racial, etc.; and it must be
apparent that no matter how well founded any person's views may
be on any of these questions, if he devotes himself energetically
to the promulgation and advocacy of his views at public meetings,
lectures, etc., he will without fail antagonize a considerable
section of the community. It is, therefore, apparent to every
business man that any person who adopts this course at once
renders himself less useful than he would otherwise be in any
position (such, for instance, as a station agent) in the
employment of a Railway Company, whose main object must be to
increase its business from every possible source, and who must be
careful not to antagonize any portion of the community upon whose
patronage, as part of the general public, the success of the
Company depends. Illogically, and perhaps unfortunately, there