n atrocious assault upon Mr. Smith, the President of
the Brome County Alliance, is probably as severe as can be looked
for in a county where a jury dare not find men guilty. That the
purpose was to commit murder, the fatal weapon provided proves.
The plea of guilty on the part of the prisoners is a plain
condemnation of the jury in failing to bring in a verdict.

"The liquor men, for the sake of whose illicit trade the Canadian
Pacific Railway Company dismissed Mr. Smith from its services,
are self-convicted at least of the most dangerous and brutal
ruffianism. Mr. Brady, who took the part of those customers of
the Company against his own subordinate, Mr. Smith, remains the
accredited authority of the Company in that section of the
country. This is a fact which should be generally known."

Below is the view expressed by _The Templar_, itself, and also
repeated by the _Witness_.

"The result of the trial of the conspirators to 'do up' W. W.
Smith, President of the Brome County Branch of the Dominion
Alliance, for his zeal in bringing to justice the men who would
persist in maintaining an illicit liquor traffic contrary to the
fully expressed judgment of the people, has been a confession of
'guilty' by the accused, and the imposition a sentence of one
month in jail at hard labor.

"The confession and the facts brought out in evidence reveal the
liquor traffic in a most unenviable light.

"The plot was hatched in a barroom, a liquor seller hired a
Marlboro, Mass., bartender to do the 'job,' and he was the guest
of hotel keepers while he was spying out the land preparatory to
his murderous assault. Never was a more cool, calculating and
infamous deed wrought in this country. The wretch, Chatelle,
acted under a sudden impulse to gratify an abnormal passion, but
these wretches planned weeks ahead to 'do up' Smith, yet such
cowards were they, they dared not strike the blow, but hired the
Marlboro tool to do it for them. Jenne, Howarth and Wilson, you
are arrant cowards, and your weakness is only exceeded by the
devilishness of your malice!

"These are the men who say we cannot enforce prohibition, and
undertake to make the law a dead letter. Men who will murder--no,
they lack that courage, but will hire the slugger--if they are
not permitted t