ommunications
regarding it to the papers, but the press, from some cause, seemed
very loath to publish these protests. However, the following,
addressed to the Editor of the _Witness_, did find its way to the
public, and may have expressed the opinions of many besides the
writer:

"SIR,--That the temperance people of Canada were moved, as never
before, by the dismissal of its Sutton Junction agent, Mr. W. W.
Smith, by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, because he had
rendered himself obnoxious to the lawbreakers of the County of
Brome, who had tried but failed to kill him, there is no doubt,
as may be clearly seen from your columns, to say nothing of the
thousand hearts, which, like mine, said nothing, but felt no less
all the while that by its action the Canadian Pacific Railway
had placed a premium upon lawlessness and immorality at the
expense of those whom I had been taught to regard as the 'salt of
the earth.'

"The immediate consequence of this was that that line of railway
was being shunned, and its services neglected by many of its old
patrons, and by this loss its magnates were being taught a
lesson, and put on the 'repentent stool,' and it seemed almost
certain that never more would the Bradys, Taits, and Van Hornes
of this Canadian made and pampered corporation forget that
temperance people of Canada had both the will and the power to
retaliate upon their persecutors. And that if another such
dismissal was ever again attempted, they would 'more darkly sin,'
and hide the 'cloven foot,' which was so openly shown by Brady
and Tait.

"At this juncture of its affairs, and at the moment when a
persistence in the agitation would probably have resulted in
reparation of the wrong done to Mr. Smith, and an open
repudiation of its immoral attitude, Mr. Tait managed to get a
hold of some gentlemen, who like the seven Tooley Street tailors,
who called themselves 'We, the people of England,' arrogated to
themselves the right to speak for the temperance people of
Canada, and he played them off on the 'Come into my parlor, said
the spider to a fly,' and the upshot of the matter is the most
disappointing and sickening, I think, I have ever seen.

"I do not know the names of any one of these men, so I cannot be
accused of malice in holding up their co