hat this action of the Railway Company is a
distinct violation of the rights of citizenship, and deserves
strong condemnation as being tyrannical and unjust in the
extreme, and is calculated, if not redressed, to destroy public
spirit and inflict deep injury to the civil rights of the
people."

We will now look at some of the opinions of individuals, as expressed
in letters sent by them to the temperance papers.

The following communication was sent to the _Witness_ before the
publication of Mr. Brady's letters. Doubtless, the writer of this
article may, after reading those letters, have entertained some doubts
as to the infallibility of the opinions here expressed, but they
show, at least, how impossible it seemed to some citizens that such a
corporation as the Canadian Pacific Railway could oppose temperance
activity on the part of its employees. The letter, addressed to the
Editor of the _Witness_, is as follows:

"SIR,--In your issue of October 9th, a statement occurs which
suggests the necessity of a word of caution. The following is the
sentence: '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
faithful officer.' From a personal acquaintance with several
gentlemen who control the appointment of officials of this and
similar grades of office in connection with the Canadian Pacific
Railway, I wait an explanation of this act of executive power
which will present it in an altogether different light from that
in which it now appears. I cannot believe that officers of any
Company, transacting business with, and dependent upon, the
public, as the Canadian Pacific Railway is, would descend to an
act as described in the case in hand. What the explanation will
be, I will not conjecture, but I can easily conceive it is
susceptible of an explanation which will remove all cause of
censure from the Company. In more than one instance, I have known
the officials of this Company to firmly support an employee in
the maintenance of moral principle, even at a financial loss to
the Company. But, apart from all loyalty to right principle, on
the part of the officiary of the Company, it is to me simply