l as Mr. Leonard, the General
Superintendent, and myself, have received numerous complaints
from shippers and the public generally with reference to your
actions with the late prosecution of liquor sellers in Brome
County. The basis of these complaints is made that you have used
your position as agent for this Company to procure evidence with
which to prosecute liquor sellers. I have replied to some of
these people that so far as I can ascertain you have not used
your position as agent to procure such evidence; but I must
inform you that the same rule with reference to temperance
agitation that governs employees of this Company with reference
to politics must be lived up to, i. e., you must devote your
whole and entire time to the Railway Company if you desire to
hold your position. You must do nothing whatever to antagonize
the interests of the Company, or to create feeling between the
Company and its patrons. You will understand by this that you
must cease temperance lecturing or taking an active part in
temperance gatherings or agitation.

"I make this letter personal as I consider that the contents of
it will remain strictly between ourselves.

"Yours truly,
"F. P. BRADY.
"_Farnham, July 9th, 1894._"

This letter is very emphatic, and if the spirit of it were carried out
in every case as faithfully as Mr. Brady endeavored to carry it out in
this case, the employees of the road would be a band of slaves, and
the Canadian Pacific Railway a sort of Canadian Siberia with all its
positions shunned by every self-respecting laborer. It is well,
indeed, for the Canadian Pacific Railway that all its officers do not
carry out these tyrannical rules with such precision as this, yet it
is plainly inferred by Mr. Brady's words that such rules had been
previously applied in the matter of politics.

If so, the Canadian public need to stop and realize what a moderate
autocrat they are supporting in their midst in a land of responsible
rule.

Mr. Brady says: "You must do nothing whatever to antagonize the
interests of the Company, or to create feeling between the Company and
its patrons." This seems to be a very strange sentence in two
respects. First, how can temperance work "antagonize the interests of
the Company?" A railroad is always supported by a community, and must
depe