uestion. On the contrary, we hold it the duty of every loyal
citizen to uphold law, and render such assistance as lies in his
power to secure its enforcement.

"With regard to the later charges against Mr. Smith,
parenthetically enumerated in your letter, you say they are
insignificant, and that, therefore, 'it was not necessary or
proper to discuss them further with Mr. Smith.' If so, we may
also be excused from discussing them. We have given Mr. Smith
communication of your letter, that he may reply to these if he
sees best.

"Referring to your kind offer of free transportation over your
line, to visit the localities in which Messrs. Smith and Brady
were known, and satisfy myself as to the propriety of Mr. Smith's
discharge, I might say that I did visit those localities without
accepting the offer of free transportation, which accounts for
your not knowing of my visit to Brome County. As the result of
that visit I was still better informed as to the operation of the
occult influence which had brought about Mr. Smith's dismissal.

"Your offer to meet our committee and discuss the question was
rendered nugatory by the dismissal of Mr. Smith.

"In the management of your Company it is not our part to
interfere, but when an employee of your Company is dismissed, as
alleged by the Assistant Superintendent, and now confirmed by
yourself, for publicly advocating those principles which this
Alliance is organized to promote, and for promoting the
observance of the laws of his country, it is right for us to
express to you the protest of a very large portion of the people
of Canada, and their indignation at seeing one of their number
thus suffer for conscience sake. It is, of course, for the
Company to judge how best to promote its own business, but when
so large a portion of the public as those who support temperance
laws and seeks their enforcement is openly snubbed in the
interests, and it would seem at the instance, of illicit and
murderous dealers in a contraband article, from the transport of
which your Company seeks profit, we may fairly ask the question
whether the Company is acting even the part of worldly wisdom.
Your declaration that if one of the Company's officers or
employees so conducts himself as to antagonize a section of the