temperance work.

"On behalf of the executive,

"E. L. BOND, }
"S. J. CARTER, }
"A. M. FEATHERSTON, } _Committee_."
"A. M. PHILLIPS, }
"J. H. CARSON, }

It will be noticed that in this letter the committee congratulate
their friends upon "the satisfactory conclusion of this matter." Also
at a meeting of the Executive of the Alliance before the above
circular was issued the following resolution was adopted:

"That this executive having heard the agreement and the report of
the committee thereon, is satisfied with the same, and
congratulate the temperance people of Canada on the result."

It is often well for us to look at the bright side, and this was what
the Alliance Committee determined on doing, and there surely were some
encouraging features connected with this case.

Nevertheless, as there are generally two sides which may be seen in
such an affair, there were many of "the temperance people of Canada"
who did not consider this conclusion satisfactory, and exchanged no
congratulations, and it may do us no harm now to look briefly at some
of the disappointing features in this settlement.

First, it is said, "that the Company has entirely repudiated the
offensive language used by Mr. Brady, and declares that it does not
express the attitude of the Company towards the temperance cause."
Now, Mr. Tait had taken precisely this same position in his letters
to the Alliance Secretary, previous to the meeting with the committee,
and even in the minutes of the meeting, as above given, it is said,
"The Canadian Pacific Railway distinctly repudiate--_as they have done
from the commencement of the discussion_--the expressions used by
Assistant Superintendent Brady." In view of this it would seem that
not much was gained by the meeting on this point.

Secondly, we are told that "the Company also admits the right of its
employees to engage in temperance work." It certainly was encouraging
that this great Company should try to appear pleasing to the Alliance,
and seemed to show that the Canadian Pacific Railway considered the
temperance party a powerful factor in the land, but when we come to
consider the manner in which the admission mentioned above was made,
we can but see that it has a very doubtful side. Th