rts of the Brome County
liquor sellers when they sent to Massachusetts for a prize fighter to
come north to injure and perhaps kill a Christian temperance worker.

Through the providence of God, the plans of these men do not always
succeed, and when they do the real victory is often for God and the
right rather than for them, because no right-thinking man or woman can
but oppose them and their business when they see such fruits of the
traffic. North or south, the nature and effects of intemperance are
ever the same.

CHAPTER III.

THE AUTUMN COURT.

The Autumn Court of the District of Bedford was opened at Sweetsburg,
Que., on Thursday, August 30th, 1894, and at this session the Sutton
Junction Assault Case was considered. The lawyers in charge of the
case were H. T. Duffy, on behalf of the Alliance, and E. Racicot, on
behalf of the accused hotel keepers. The court room was thronged each
day with eager listeners, and much interest was evinced both by the
temperance and anti-temperance people.

The following account of proceedings at court and other matters
relating to the assault case is from _The Templar_, a temperance
paper, published in Hamilton, Ont., and a large part of this
description was also published in the Montreal _Daily Witness_:

"The excitement in Brome County, Quebec, over the arrest of
several prominent liquor sellers on the charge of conspiring to
murder Mr. W. W. Smith, President of Brome County Temperance
Alliance, increases as the developments are becoming known to
the public. According to the evidence, there remains no longer
any question that Mr. Smith's devotion to Prohibition, and
particularly his determined stand for the honest enforcement of
the Scott Act, which is in force in that county, made him a
shining mark for the vengeance of the men whose trade and profits
were so seriously affected thereby. The confession of Walter
Kelly, the assailant, that he was employed to 'do up' Mr. Smith
because he was a man who gave the hotel keepers much trouble, and
had to be thrashed, as well as the payment of money by Mr. Jenne,
proves the animus of the assault, while the general evidence
indicates a wide-spread conspiracy, embracing others than the
accused, to cause the diabolical crime. The publicans of Brome,
and, indeed, the liquor traffic as a whole, lie under the
terrible suspicion of sympathy w