olutions
presented to the meeting yesterday.

"The Secretary was instructed to inform Mr. Tait, Assistant
General Manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway, that this
committee would confer with him in regard to this matter, if we
should so desire. The committee will await Mr. Tait's reply
before publishing the resolutions received or those adopted at
yesterday's meeting."

CHAPTER VIII.

RESULTS OF THE ALLIANCE PROTEST.

In our last chapter was given a letter written by Mr. Carson on
December 21st, and addressed to Mr. Tait. The reply to this was as
follows:

"J. H. Carson, Esq., Secretary Quebec Provincial Branch of the
Dominion Alliance, 162 St. James Street, Montreal:

"DEAR SIR,--I have acknowledged the receipt of your two
communications of the 21st and 28th ult. As your letter of the
21st states that the Alliance does not allege that the reason for
Mr. Smith's discharge by the Company was the nature of the
principles held and advocated by him, and states that the sole
objection of the Alliance to the action of the Company in this
matter is the discharge of an employee from its service 'for his
activity in advocating those principles,' I now desire to state
briefly, and in such a way as I trust will prevent any
possibility of being any longer misinterpreted, the views of the
Company on that point.

"The Company does not object to its employees holding, practising
and promoting temperance principles in such a manner as not to
injuriously affect the Company's interests, but it does object
seriously to any employee actively engaging in the advocacy and
agitation of these or any other principles or views, no matter
how respectable and proper in themselves, about which there is a
well understood difference of opinion in the community, in such a
manner as either to injuriously affect the Company's interests or
to impair his usefulness as an employee, or to interfere with the
proper performance of his duties to his employer, as to all of
which it cannot be expected that any other than the Company
should be the judge.

"There is a large portion of the population of this country who,
rightly or wrongly, differ from and oppose the views which are
promulgated and promoted by the Alliance, and which have been so
vigorously and persi