October 8th shows that there was
some cause for excitement in the minds of the temperance people:

"The sequel to the lead pipe murderous assault upon Mr. W. W.
Smith, President of the Brome County Alliance, occurred on
Saturday last. It has been well known that the liquor men,
baffled in their attempt to murder Mr. Smith, had, however, not
abandoned their plan to ruin him and discourage other temperance
workers in the county. Their scheme was known to the temperance
people, but it was not thought possible that it would succeed. It
was nothing more nor less than the securing of the dismissal of
Mr. Smith from his position as agent of the Canadian Pacific
Railway. It has, however, succeeded. Mr. Smith was notified on
Saturday last of his dismissal from the Company's employ. Some
astonishing revelations may be expected, as the temperance
people are intensely indignant that the Company should have
yielded to the demands of the liquor party and removed from its
service one who has been for years a trusted servant and a
faithful officer."

It was indeed a great surprise to most of the temperance community
when the news of this dismissal went abroad. They had not been ready
to believe that in these days of temperance agitation, in these last
years of the nineteenth century, a great and powerful corporation like
the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, knowing for a fact that
nine-tenths of all the terrible accidents that occur on railroads
causing loss of life and property are the outcome of intemperance,
would become the instrument in the hands of illegal liquor sellers to
carry out their will.

The correspondence which had passed between Mr. Smith and Assistant
Superintendent Brady was preserved and placed in the hands of the
Alliance, who requested and obtained its publication in the _Witness_.

It was also afterwards published in _The Templar_ and in several other
papers. It describes many of the events which led to Mr. Smith's
dismissal, and seems to show plainly the real cause of that dismissal
in spite of all later contradictions. The first communication which
the accused agent received from the Assistant Superintendent
concerning his temperance work was as follows:

"W. W. Smith, Agent, Sutton Junction.

"DEAR SIR,--I enclose you herewith two letters, one from B. L.
Wilson, of Glen Sutton, and one from Nutter & French,