sserted over the lives of its
employees is going to be insisted on by the Company as against
every thing they do, and that every man who takes part in a
baseball match or a mock parliament will be dismissed. It is not
to be supposed that the man who busies himself even in politics
will be dismissed if he takes care that he does not do so on a
side distasteful to the Company. The particular thing which is a
capital offence with the Company, according to this
correspondence, is to busy one's self with the enforcement of the
laws of the land or advocate temperance in public. If temperance
advocacy is going to be boycotted by the Canadian Pacific Railway
in the interests of the illegal and murderous liquor business,
there are ten thousand good customers of the road who will want
to know the reason why. This should indeed be asked for in
parliament."

CHAPTER VI.

MORE BITS OF PUBLIC OPINION.

The action of the Canadian Pacific Railway, in thus dismissing their
agent at Sutton Junction, apparently for no other cause than the
vigorous opposition which he offered to the work of the liquor party
in his own vicinity, like the assault case previously, elicited much
criticism from the public.

We purpose in this chapter reproducing some of the many opinions
regarding the dismissal which appeared in the columns of the public
press.

It has been said that "the greatest power under heaven is public
opinion," and it may be profitable for us sometimes to study such an
important power, and especially to consider the opinions of people who
uphold peace, temperance and religion. The following is the view of
_The Templar_ of Hamilton, as quoted in the Montreal _Daily Witness_:

"The announcement that the Canadian Pacific Railway has rallied
to the aid of the lawless and murderous liquor gang in Brome
County, Quebec, is sufficiently suggestive and startling to
demand attention. Its dismissal of Mr. W. W. Smith, C. P. R.
agent at Sutton Junction, and President of the Brome County
branch of the Dominion Alliance, because of his activity in the
discharge of his duties in the latter office, is one of the most
foolish and anti-Canadian acts of that great corporation.

"Mr. Smith, it will be remembered, incurred the hostility of the
illegal liquor venders in his locality, and, as the recent legal
investiga