tion shows, a conspiracy was formed, and a bartender
hired to 'remove' him. One night, while in the performance of his
duties at the Sutton Junction station, he was murderously
assailed, and barely escaped with his life. Detectives were
employed, the assassin was arrested, and has confessed that he
was paid by local men, interested in the liquor traffic, for his
work. He and two others, including a hotel keeper, are now in
jail awaiting trial, bail having been refused.

"Since the committal of the prisoners, Mr. Smith was dismissed by
the C. P. R. Upon September 7th, he received a letter from the
Assistant Superintendent in which occurred these words: 'You must
either quit temperance work or quit the Company. It makes no
difference whether you are on duty or off duty, so far as this
Company is concerned. They demand the whole and entire time of
their men, and they are going to have it.' .............. This
subject is broader than Mr. Smith or any individual. It is the
question of the right of the citizen to enjoy and exercise the
rights of a citizen while employed by such a corporation as the
Canadian Pacific Railway. It is the old problem of slave or
freeman. The Railway is undoubtedly entitled to the best service
of its employees, while on duty; but, after hours, the citizens
should be free to engage in those pleasures and pursuits which do
not conflict with the welfare of society and the State, Mr. Smith
should be free to participate in the agitation to drive the
criminal liquor traffic out of the country without being called
upon to suffer the loss of income. The man who braved the liquor
party, and nearly sealed his devotion to the temperance reform
with his life blood, was not the man to abandon his convictions
at the command of a railway manager.

"The course of the C. P. R., in dismissing Mr. Smith, has been
warmly endorsed by the cowardly and murderous liquor gang in
Brome, and is so open to the suspicion of being an attempt to
coerce the conscience and abridge the liberties of the citizens
to serve the liquor interests as to make it imperative that some
member of the Commons, which has so largely subsidized that road,
demand in the approaching session a public investigation. A whole
army of men are in the service of the Canadian Pac