e sentence in which
the Company makes this announcement is as follows:

"The Canadian Pacific Railway admit the right of employees to
identify themselves with the temperance movement, and work for
the same, provided such work is done outside official hours,
_always with due consideration to the interests of the Company_."

As we are not told that Mr. Tait, at the meeting, repudiated any of
his own former statements, we will look at the above in the light of
the following, from his letter of December 6th, to Mr. Carson:

"As far as I am able to judge, no official of our Company, of
whose duties one is to solicit and secure traffic for the
Company, could take sides on any of these questions," referring
to matters about which the public disagree, "at public meetings
and lectures without impairing its usefulness to the Company....
..... The Company is carrying on the business of a railway company,
and its objects do not extend beyond the promotion of that business.
Its success depends upon the favor and patronage of the community
at large, and if one of its officers or employees so conducts
himself as to antagonize a section of the community, or even in a
manner which is likely to bring about that result, the Company's
interests are injuriously affected."

The admission made to the Alliance seems to be robbed of most of its
virtue by the above statements, and it would seem that even yet the
employees of the Company may have but little liberty of conscience.

It is also said in the aforementioned circular that, "as regards Mr.
Brady, the Company acknowledges that cause for dissatisfaction has
existed, and promises that action will be taken to remove this cause."

This acknowledgment was certainly a good one, but we have no knowledge
of the promise having been fulfilled. Mr. Brady has been moved from
one division to another of the Canadian Pacific Railway, but as this
change did not take place until long after this meeting was held, and
then only in connection with many others among the officials and
employees of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and as Mr. Brady still
holds an honorable position in the Company's employ, we see no reason
for supposing that this had any connection with the promise made to
the committee.

Some of the temperance people feeling dissatisfied with the results of
the Canadian Pacific Railway-Alliance Conference sent c