nduct to the
commiseration not to say contempt of the public. Though an
intense prohibitionist I have never been able to appreciate the
wisdom and nerve of some of our temperance people; yet, never
before have I noticed anything that looked so like treachery to
our cause.

"In your issue of the 8th inst. we have a large heading, 'Brady
Repudiated,' and in the body of the article we see this
temperance committee, if not openly repudiating Mr. Smith,
allowing the Canadian Pacific Railway to defame his character,
and to their very teeth justify his dismissal, and giving their
consent to both.

"How artfully Mr. Tait changed the whole ground of complaint; and
how simply the committee were hoodwinked and befooled will be
seen, when I say that that which roused the temperance people was
the truckling of the Canadian Pacific Railway to the liquor
traffic, and its marked contempt for temperance men, its moral
tyranny over its employees, and its wrongful dismissal of Mr.
Smith, simply because his attitude on a moral question had
exasperated the other side. But in the report which you give of
the interview between this committee and Mr. Tait, all this is
lost sight of, and the whole ground of complaint is made to rest
on poor Brady, the 'scapegoat's' phraseology. 'The committee
claimed that the ill-advised language used in Assistant
Superintendent Brady's correspondence has caused great
dissatisfaction on the part of the temperance people of Canada.'

"The committee would seem to have insisted on the punishment of
Brady, while concurring with Tait in everything. The report says:

"'The Canadian-Pacific Railway acknowledges that cause for
dissatisfaction has existed, claim the responsibility of dealing
with, and will deal with the matter in such manner as they
consider deserving in the premises.' If this is offered as a
salve to the small, cowardly feelings which would like to see a
subordinate punished for doing what he was told to do, I trust
the Canadian Pacific Railway will disappoint the committee, and
let their scapegoat go free. It would be both cruel and unfair
that the blow should fall on Brady, the mean tool, and the bigger
tyrants go free. This is so evidently seen in the fact that Tait
practically insists on the same right to m