number of _The News_ appeared this note:

"We are in receipt of another letter from 'Fair Play,' but as
personalities are indulged in, and as we are averse to entering
upon a prolonged and bitter controversy, we are constrained to
decline the publication of this communication."

In this we seem to see a hint of that spirit of harshness and
unfairness which so often characterizes the actions of the liquor
party, and which sometimes leads to just such deeds as this brutal
assault, which "Fair Play" would persuade the public had never
occurred.

CHAPTER V.

THE ACTION OF THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY CO.

It has already been stated that Mr. W. W. Smith had been for fifteen
years the agent of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company at Sutton
Junction. During two or three years previous to receiving this
appointment, he had also held other positions in their service. He had
long been a trusted and privileged employee of the Company, to whom he
had apparently given full satisfaction.

It will be remembered that Walter Kelly, in his evidence at
Sweetsburg, testified that Howarth had told him on his arrival in
Canada that the liquor men had "reported Smith to the Company, and his
discharge had been ordered." Mr. Smith soon had reason to believe,
also, that his temperance work was not pleasing to Assistant
Superintendent Brady, who had charge of that division of the Canadian
Pacific Railway in which Sutton Junction was situated. With this man
Mr. Smith had at one time been quite a favorite, but, after he had
united with the temperance workers, the friendship of Mr. Brady became
less apparent, and after the time of the assault his coolness grew
quite marked, and it soon became evident to Mr. Smith, although his
friends were long loath to believe it, that the Assistant
Superintendent was anxious to get rid of him. The rumor spread abroad,
also, that the liquor men were trying to influence the Canadian
Pacific Railway Company so as to obtain Mr. Smith's dismissal from
their employ, and people of other places became anxious to learn the
truth of the matter, as is shown by the following article from the
Montreal _Daily Witness_:

"It being rumored that the liquor men who so cruelly assaulted
Mr. W. W. Smith, President of the Brome County branch of the
Dominion Alliance, and station agent at Sutton Junction, were not
content with their cowardly conduct, but were making strenuous