The Axe, 10 février 1922, vendredi 10 février 1922

[" Es | verdict.is shaking the codon of the \u2014 po HE BX ar IN PRIZES I Competition See page 3.A JOURNAL OF ACTION AGAINST REACTION Page 3.ere EDITED BY JOHN H.ROBERTS \u2014_\u2014 _\u2014 0 THE AXE AT THE ROOT OF THE TREE\u201d MONTREAL, FRIDAY, FEBRUABY 10th, 1933 Annual subscription Two: dollass.ROBERTS -RUMSELLER MERCHANTS\" BANK CAT OUT OF BAG A Revelation of Gross Incompetence At last the cat is out of the bag.The grossest mismanagement, the hiding of the true state of affairs from the Board of Directors, the loaning of big sums to employes of the Bank, on horses, automobiles, and \u201cstocks\u201d, and the financing of known insolvent companies, all these form features of this most scandalous episode fn\u2019 the commer.cia] life of Canada.Was ever such a revelation of utter and supine incompetence given to the Canadian public in regard to any business enterprise?We question it.And \u2018these are your Gods, O Israel.\u201d The great Gods of High Finance.Here is a clear case for investigation by the Government and in the name of commercial morality we demand it be made.No wonder one of the shareholders said the Bank had been \u201clooted and robbed.\u201d Fancy trying Colin Cameron | for embezzlement and allo the Merchants\u2019 Bank looters and robbers to go free! Sauvé is Game.Mr, Arthur Sauvé, Leader of the - Opposition, Quebec, Sir>\u2014 We admire the almost single-handed fight you are making at Quebec; we always did.It is a F ty you have not a larger party behind you, but you can ae- complish wonders if you will only stick at itt We would like to bear in mind that the greatest erime any Government has ever committed in Canada was that committed by the Liberal Government of the Province of Quebec, when it assumed the ownership of the liquor traffic.We urge you to realise that this is a great moral issue and that, if you will onl fight in the House and outside, to destroy the Government ownership of the liquor business and return it to private hands, you will have all the best people of the provincé at your back and you will before long be returned to dorer at the head of a great majority of the House.Go to it.THE AXE.~~ Act, McMahon ! Coroner McMahon, Corpner of the st : ity of Montreal.: T have a great deal of respect for your exalted and useful position.So have great many other people.But most people will soon lose that respect both for ou and the position you hold if you don\u2019t urry up and reach a decision re the Délorme murder.A month hag now gone by since the awful deed happened and you appear to be \u201cletting I dare not wait apon 7 I would\u201d Rightly or wrongly, many peo- le think you are afraid to reach a verdict ecause of the position of parties involved.The right course for you'to take is to do your duty and let justice be done.Make ip your mind, Coroner McMahon and saie the public.This postponing of a in the administration of justice, Pe #|to his proportionate profit on the transaction.John H.Roberts, formerly Secretary of The Dominion Alliance for the Total Suppression of the Liquor Traffic, confesses that he is now a partner in a whisky business in Montreal and other cities in Quebec.Yes, John H.Roberts, formerly Secretary of the Dominion Alliance for the Total Suppression df the Liquor Traffic, is a whisky seller! Just a common rum-seller.We have the proof and will give it right here.For years this man has been fighi i now he is selling\u2019it.It is nearly thirty years since he drd of firewater but today he is making a p of selliy have the goods on him, John H.Roberts, Total \u201cA all that can intoxicate and Total Prohibitionist.He has one store on Notre-Dame Street West that we know of and another on Peel Street.Not everybody knows these places but we can point them out and are prepared to do so at the right moment.Roberts is never to be seen in them by the customers who patronise them but, nevertheless, they are his rum shops and he takes profit out of them.More than this he has other places of like kind in other parts of the province where liquor of the strongest kind is daily sold, all to John H.Roberts\u2019 profit and advantage.We know for certain that he is financially interested in liquor shops in Granby, St.Hyacinthe, and Sherbrooke.Think of it, this man, John H.Roberts, whom everybody, when they hear his name, associates with Prohibition and look upon as the man who fights booze.Actually a part-owner of liquor shops, receiving money from the sale of hard liquor, and profiting every day of his life from every bottle of strong drink sold in the places in which he has an interest, ä « OUR PROOF.We know these are strong charges to make but we are ready to prove them to the hilt.Here Is the proof: \u2014 John H.Roberts is a ei- tizen of the Province of Quebec.He is one of the people of Quebec.The people of the Province of Quebec have elected a Legislature.The majority of the Legislature have formed the Government of the Province of Quebec.The Government owns 100 liquor stores in Montreal! and many Yl others in all parts of the province.They have a monopoly of the legal sale of whisky, rum, gin, brandy and all ardent spirits.From May 1st, 1921, they sold over nine millions worth of drink.Out of these sales they made something like four million dollars of profit, according to the \u20acremier, Mr.Taschereau.John H.Roberts as a citizen of the Province of Quebec, is a shareholder in this whisky business, a partner in selling whisky.He receives his share of the profits by reduced taxation by the administrative services th>t are paid for out of the profits of whisky- selling for which he would have to pay his share, like every other citizen, if it were not for the profits out -of Government liquor.When the Government sold whisky and gin to that man and woman found asphyxiated after a drunken orgie, John H.Roberts was entitled When a whisky-loving father starves his helpless kiddies becausq he buys Government whisky, John H, Roberts is \u201cdeclared in\u201d on the profit.When the houses of ill- fame sell liquor that has been procured from the Government liquor tores, Roberts is a beneficiary - So are you, Mr.Respectable Citizen of the Province of Quebec.You, my dear Clergyman.You, my 2espected Sunday School Teacher.You, Mr.Business Man.You, my dear Lady.Every one of you, partners and share-holders in the Coverrment liquor shop and, like John H.Roberts, just each of you a common rum seller, That's what the Taschereau~Government has made of you! ' es, ] oro TRE AXE, {LIQUOR! DOWN WITH THE GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF : 2, .es - \u201c .\u2014\u2014 se - Li A = el - > \\ + Loa - ~ RAT HOGS AN HOUSEHOLDERS LANDLORDS PROFITEER BECAUSE TENANTS WONT PREVENT.Almost anywhere you go now-a- days the sign \u201cTO LET\u2019 catches the eye.It is the open season for house- hunting and the home-eeekers are at it with a vengeance.There has been a great amount of talk during the past year or two about the housing situation in Montreal as affected by the high rentals; high rentals that are in vogue simply because tenants and prospective tenants are perfectly willing to pay these rentals: not willing, perhaps, but \u2018fish\u2019 enough to do it.The trouble with most of us is that we quickly get cold feet on the subject, and to save ourselves the trouble of intense house-hunting, or for fear that a suitable place may not be found if we put it off, we stay where we are at high rents or take on a similar place at an equally stiff price.* - Wherein we make supreme idiots of ourselves! Landlords taken in the mass are highbinders, but at that they are merely out for the highest possible price for their commodity, which is business, and damn good business from the point of view of the landlord.But we tenants are not make ing the best advantage of our position, for there are two salient facts to remember: \u2014 the landlord must rent his property to get his revenue, and we who must pay have the game in our hands if we but- play our cards properly.In my opinion this is the time for \u201cwatchful waiting\u201d.If we wait long enough and sit tight and let the landlord fellow do the worrying, the landlord will have to come down in his price, and the tenant will win.You see, we have all permitted ourselves to become suckers in the eyes-of the house-letting class.For the very good reason that when houses were scarce and times were good, the average man would pay almost any old price for a place to live in.Naturally the landlord will keep his price up just as long as he can for the simple reason that every dollar more he gets from you is just that much more added revenue from his property, and added revenue looks mighty good to almost any one of us, landlord or tenant.\u201cThe tenant will never make a dol lar by talking it over\u2018with his neighe bour on the car, labelling his landlord a thief, and then signing a new lease at the landlord's terms.Buf (Continued on Page 3) A >.PE _ Chips from \u201cHew to the line, lot the chips fall where they may\u201d.xererneetr Who Slew Delorme ?More than a month ago young Delorme was brutally murdered.The police have apparently reached then end of their resources.With the whole city still in : ferment about this cruel deed \u201cpd, with ample time and resour- «es to investigate every clue, the \"wiice, detectives, and the Proincial police have reached a r sition of stalemate.We have ~reat deal of confidence in our «.7 police and detectives and :e confident they are not so 1elpless in the matter as appears.The question is: who, if anybody, is interfering with the course of justice?And a further question is, what is it, if any- ing, that paralyses the hands of our police authorities ?If the authorities know who slew Delorme, as many people are saying they do, no question of pny suspect's position or place should be permitted to interfere with their duty.Is this to be a repitition of the Blanche Garneau affair?Lote St.Michel Dance Hells.Two weeks ago we drew attention to these blots on our local scutcheon.On Saturday last the officers of the Quebec Liquor Commission raided the places Koncerned and made arrest.rial is now being awaited so we ass no comment other than to pay we are glad THE AXE does t go unread by those responsi- le for enforcing the Liquor Law.But really, gentlemen, two weeks .to get action.Faugh! .Work for the Unemployed.The Premier of Quebec has received a deputation of ex- fighting men asking that some- The Provincial Elections THE AXE announces that the Provincial Government has decided to than that those at the helm think moral issue of Government Ownership of the Liquor Traffic will be responsible for making every man seller will be snowed under an avalanche of white ballots and the liquor trade restored to private hands, This past were laughed and sneered at stand for it.To Feed Russia's Children after all, greater than all political antagonisms.reflects credit on the Dominionungry chi tics of its it.~ The Level Crossing Menace level crossing of the Grand It is with high authority that|8entence reduced to two senten- call the General Elections for June.tance was just a little too steep There is no reason for this other for anyone to stand for, it seems.h better in elections this} Ihe poor Zowisluk was proven vor can do year later.®At present to be a half-witted hungry, job- they can point with pride to an over- less fellow.He simply wanted flowing treasury; a year later the |t, get into jail to be fed, but forty the burning question in the Provin-|ONe for smashing a few windows.ce of Quebec and the Party that is |For us, we are fed up with magie 0 and woman in the province a rum-! Moore ! may seem like boasting on our part | White Star line to the effect that but it will be remembered that MWY |g Montreal to Bremen service other things we worked for in the will be inaugurated by them but they came to pass The Liquor |during the coming season is just Commission is doomed and with it'another of those small matters the party that gave it birth.~The {which make us realise that trade TRE AXE, FRIDAY, FEBRUAICY, uth JVéé.the Editor's Axe RANDOM REMARKS BY ROBBIE JUNIOR ing ten windows, has had his ces of two years, the sentences to run concurrently.Moore's sen- years is a long time to feed any- trates of the Moore type.Trading With Germany | {/ The announcement .of th story.\\ \u2014\u2014\u2014.\u2014 me Ex-Soldiers Have Proved Their Worth.Canada is not the only country in which the Returned Soldier has suffered palpably since the war.Dis treas amongst fighting men is very great in England.Australia has her troubles, France is, but little better off.In fact of the countries which were in the war all the way through, Germany would seem to be the happiest hunting ground for the Returned Soldier, for in Hunland, the heels have been turning and pro- duction has been going on apace.It all to prove the same old remember barrack-room talk when first I joined the Army, away back in 1914 There were many old soldiers there, Englishmen for the main part; men who joined for the love of the Empire, must come.kept down.moral sense of Quebec is too high to with the German is coming and Men who have C returned from Germany invaria- The claims of humanity are, bly speak of the busy and ap- C parently flourishing condition of The decision|the people, though the latest of Canada to help feed the chil-'strike is bound to have a great dren of Russia who are starving effect on conditions temporarily.because of the famine there The German nation will never be ù ni They are of that Let no petty spirit of hostility to|persistent strain which is bound Bolshevism interfere with this|to win back it\u2019s world market worthy effort.The people of because as competiti Russia have as much right ag the/ getters they seem to be in a class people of Canada, or any dther|by themselves.At the same time land, to choose their own form of |the people of the Allied Nations | ney We don\u2019t ask a/must guard against German com- business what are the poli-|mercial invasion here in Canada ents pefare-feedingiit must be \u201cCanada First\u201d: \u2018 until such time as we reestablish Canada and bring her back À few days ago À woman wasito her own prosperity.= And, killed at the Mountain Street;ÿet, if we know people as| we think we do, there are: Trunk Railway, and the crossingjmany who will buy Germanwatchman has.been accused of made goods in preference to though none admitted it, and for love of the game.The country at that time was rife with wonderful, fabulous stories of \u201cWhen you come back\u201d.To hear the people talk one would have thought that at the end of the war it would be milk and honey, or ale and cakes, for the soldier forever.But the \u2018old-timers\u2019 sneered at it, and recalled the home-comings from South Africa.They were right.And it isn\u2019t the country that\u2019s wrong.It is the people; most of them people who thought too much of their own skins ever to join up, the people who thought that the path of true patriotism lay in buying tax-exempt Victory Bonds.The rank and file of this country and of every country under the British flag, are the soundest people on earth, Let the Empire get into, trouble and gee the way they rally .round.But unfortunately the sacred minority who happen to be a bit better off than the rank and file, the men who employ labour, the chaps who pay the wages, only consider anyone just so long as that someone can be of use to them.The minute that usefulness ceases, that \u2018some- mt et paseo - thing be done to find work for criminal neglect.It is high time things Canadian if there is alone\u2019 is dropped; dropped very ra- the unemployed.Mr Taschereau pointed out that the Government had tried to relieve the unemployment situation by building a new courthouse and by converting the old jail into a liquor storehouse.There\u2019s a government for you.Destroys men\u2019s efficiency, injures all legitimate business by running whisky shops for the money in the game, buys its liquors in Europe and thus gives employment to men there not here, and then thinks the panacea for unemployment ,is to bulid a court ouse and rebuild a jail to store * whisky in.A course in elementary economics would not hurt Premier Taschereaushould be done about this ever- present crossing danger.Steps level crossings in the heart of the lighting should be installed and railway cars, damages may be awarded the children of the deceased, nothing can compensate for the loss of a mother.price.that something of a drastic order |Cent to be saved in the purchase | pid Cheap skates appeal to \u201ccheap skates.\u201d should be taken to obviate these| Australia and St.Patrick\u2019s Day.: : 1 \\ Melbourne, city, and until such time as this|City Council has decided to is done an elaborate system of: refuse permission to the holding of a parade on St.Patrigk\u2019s Day, every means taken to protect the wherein we think they have made public from trains and shunting|consumate asses of themselves.No matter what|From our knowledge of Australia we are aware of the bitter feeling on the part of the Melbourne City Council against any- Australia, A Little Better Stephen Zowisluk, the foreigner who was sentenced to forty years by a Magistrate named Moore at Parry Sound for break- TO THE PUBLISHER, \u201cTHE AXE\", .104 Coronation Building, 121 BISHOP ST.SIR, .CUT ME OUT! Montreal, P.Q.Please send me a copy of \u201cTHE AXE\" every week for one year, beginning with the next issue after date.I enclose Two Dollars in payment, \u2026 / (Signed) Name.wee sess vine vor City or TOWN ee ies voor suse vove suse ose sens snes sae snen sone COBDEY.cee rovse sors save sess aves sss suo sass sess suse sass sore sess Province.seein eon tose eos anv sane anne aa ene nn can sv _ Dint@.es ave tres cane ess une sens ee core sone j 4 esse secs vues once so0y sdes use sven east pue thing with the label Irish or Catholic.As a matter of fact the feeling is not that of religious bigotry so much as anti-Labor.The majority of the members of the Melbourne City Council are large employers of labour.The Irish in Australia, in addition 9 being Roman Catholics, belon ly.In this case a great many \u2018someones\u2019 ceased to be of any very great use to these fellows on or about the eleventh of November, 1918.After that their use was merely that their presence on the market enabled employers to lower wages; to hold the - returned-soldier over the head of the other fellow, in case he didn\u2019t want his wages lowered.Bah! They leave a sickening taste in my mouth, do many of these employers, sleek swine that they are.Just remember this, you employers! All other things being equal, the Ex-service man must have preference over those who have not served.The latter may be good men, but the former have proved it.You may need fighting men again, L.MR } cr FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND UNEMPLOYED, : The Federal Government has seen fit to cancel the contract for an ice.almost without exception to the!breaker which had been placed with Labour Party.That is \u201cthe nigger in the woodpile\u201d.We hold no brief for the Irish nor for Roman \u201cCatholics; we simply love fair play.| AMERICANISING CANADIAN MOVIES.It appears that the Alien moving picture interests in Canada are to be absorbed by a large American con cern.Surely, we, in Canada, have already suffered enough from the Americanisation of the moving pictures themselves without seeing the control of our principal moving picture theatres passing into alien hands.Here ia one direction where the principle of protection ought to be applied.La linto.hold-up vanen.Canadian-Vickers, Limited, by the late Union Government, The amount involved was over half a million dollars and the construction of the ice- Lreaker would have done much to help relieve the unemployed situation in Montreal.If the Government can save money by purchasing the icebreaker, J.D.Hazen, from the Russign Government itis entitled to do so.But this imposes a stern obligation on them to do something and do it quickly for the unemployed in Montreal.Hungry men are desperate, especially when they see their children starving, and it is better to be generous with relief measures than to allow starvation to tury men ; , .Pi ge .= 1 ¥ tT a 2 Co > ; .pau mme 14% Para, 0 Te pe Put and Take Competition Number One $100.00 MUST BE WON! First Prise Fifty Dollars $20.00 $10.00 THE AXE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY, 10th ise ~~ ~~ Page à WIL SNARD.INVESTIGATE?S THE UNEN TOO DRTY?The Axe Flings Down the Gauntlet.\u2014 If he won't start it, we wil In our last issue we addressed an Open Letter to Mr.G.A.Simard, Chairman of the Quebec Liquor Commission, in which we pointed out Quotations of the Week.\u201cWhat one can do, that one must do if, by doing it, one can save a life or save a soul.\u201d \u2014 From \u201cRunning Water,\u201d by A.Mason.RENT HOGS AD Three other prizes of $5 each.HOW TO WIN -All you have to do is take the to that gentleman that as he had declared the Liquor Commission was prepared to investigate the rumours and charges of graft, undue influence, and the payment of money to get licenses, he should begin by investigating the granting of licenses to the Summer Garden and the Club La France, Montreal.We charged in the most emphatic and unequivocal manner that he, himself, Liquor Covumission, had used undue influence re those several licenses, that his partner, Colonel Mignault was involved in the matter, and that he, Simard, had prostituted his high office ag Chairman of the Liquor r.Simard, the Chairman of the HOUSHOLDERS (Continued from Page 1) if tenants as a class stand pat and in cases where rentals are higher that the traffic can stand will say \u201cNo.If that's what you want for your house, you can keep it,\u201d and having said so will stick to it, then tenants will begin to get somewhere.WHEN BILL KISSED MARY Commission to serve the business interests of his partner.So far, the Chairman of the Liquor Commission has made no move But they never will while they let and make a new phrase by substi- [that we are aware of towards investigating our charges.But the public ) .|the landlord run them; nor while tuting for each word another word [has not ignored them.We have been simply inundated with congratula they are such utter asses as to ° be with the same number of letters.[tions from all quarters regarding our article, \u201cI accuse Simard,\u201d and completely stampeded by any old You \u201ctake\u201d away the old words, and |We know that our exposé has caused great disquietude amongst thinking thing the landlord may say.\u201cput\u201d new words in their places.peo 4 letter word.ple.We don\u2019t say among the temperance people for we do not pre- Thus: tend to voice their views nor to represent them.But many men of high Take out WHEN and put in another |standing who were watching the experiment of Government ownership 4 letter word.| with somewhat sympathetic interest have teld us that our revelations Take out BILL and put in another [have cured them and they can no longer trust the Government or the \u2018Liquor Commission to handle the sale of whisky and would prefer to Take out KISSED and put in an-|see the liquor trade back in private hands.One of the most welcome other 6 letter word.| manifestations has been that large numbers of earnest Liberals have Most of us are weather-vanes swayed by every breeze which blows.It's time we struck, L.M.R.A lot of people are committing suicide by gas asphyxiation now-a- days.How do the members of the Take out MARY and put in another , thanked us for our plain dealing with the Liquor Commission and many Legislature survive?4 letter word.[of them have voiced their fears that Government ownership of liquor The new phrase must have some|Will destroy the Liberal Party in this Provincebearing on the phrase given.Con- \u201ccan\u2019t can be used as words: They seem to be itching for an- Now let us make oirselves perfectly clear.This matter of \u2019 sc se 59 = 66249299 ° .th fi h i 1 ] ° tractions such as \u201cdon't\u201d \u201cit's\u201d, !the granting of the Summer Garden and Club La France licenses make people pacifist bv Act ot Pare These examples will show you the , Poor girl nearly died.Fred shot lovers dead.from this date to start an investigation.If by that time nothing has been done, whether by the Liquor Commission or the Government itself, we propose to take the necessary steps to have the is going to be investigated.We will give Mr.Simard one week |liament.\u201cJail trusties in Sing Sing forged cheques and altered prison accounts\u201d, says news dispatch.This 1 \u2018Enclose 25e with this Coupon, : Cpeting LL TL Both felt cupid\u2019s dart.members of the Liquor Commission responsible for the granting |is what comes of this new fangled When you have thought out your) c's Summer Garden and Club La Frances removed from of- [theory of prisons fitting convicts phrase write it, in ink, on the Coupon below, and sign your name and fice.There is a law providing for the judicial investigation of address.Then cut out the Entry officials charged with malfeasance in office.It is our intention Form, and post it, together with 25/44 citizens to invoke it.cents, in stamps, currency or money for outside occupations.\u201cTwin Beds\u201d are wrong in \u201cIrish Eyes.\u201d order, to arrive no later than Monday, March 13th, 1922.Address your envelope :\u2014- \u201cPUT and TAKE\u201d No 1, THE AXE, \" 38.Any competitor competing under a false or assumed name may be disqualified.: - 4.Solutions themselves may be 105_Coronation Building, Montreal.|tynewritten or printed, but under no You may make as many attempts| circumstances may they be written as you like, but each attempt must; be written on a separate coupon and n pencil, 6.Any coupon or entry form on accompanied by 265 cents, Competi- | whi tion has been made tors who are unable to obtain extra which # n alteration #s been copies of the paper to make addi- 6.Each competitor may make any tional attempts may copy the Cou-|pnymber of attempts.Each such at- pon on to a piece of notepaper.Use|iempt will be judged independently, a separate sheet for each additional but sll attempts may be sent in the attempt.same envelope.The stipulated en- The prize of $560 will be awarded|trance fee must accompany each -at- J\u201d to the sender of the attempt which is considered to be the best by the tempt.: 7.The Editor will accept no re- adjudicators, by whom originality | sponsibility in regard to the loss or of ideg will be taken into considera- non delivery of po attempt sub- tion.The remaining prizes will be|mitted.Proof of posting will not be awarded to those competitors whose | accepted as proof of receipt or deli- attempts are considered next best in | very, merit.In the event of a tie the first prize will be divided.8.No correspondence will be entered.into in connection - with the All competitors must comply with |competition and-telegrams will be the general conditions printed be-|; low.\u201cPUT AND TAKE\u201d No.1.(Please write clearly).(WHEN) iv cree sues voit rêve suse suse ave [3:11 7 J ov0e vree + aus save vee sone Ce (KISSED) ves cure wer cree sure soss ares sees | (MARY) rate co oc.eres \u201csoon sen \u2026 TTT 1 agree to abide by the Editor's decision published in \u201cThe Axe,\u201d and to accept it as final, and I enter - only on this understanding, and I agree to abide by the conditions printed in \u201cThe Axe.\u201d - Signed vo.ct.TEL au ha © cou Nese Address ce, 000 veu ves 0.a.Seer x gnored.9.The Editor reserves the right to disqualify any competitor for reasons which he considers good and sufficient, and the Editor\u2019s decision with regard to all questions relating to the competitions, whether before or after the award, will be absolutely final and legally binding.Competitors can only enter on this distinct understanding.10.In the event of ties, the Editor reserves the right to divide the prize, or the value of the prize, but only one prize, or share of a prize, will go to one competitor.Conservative leader in Ontariosays he has been slandered by somé person accusing him of being \u201cimmensely wealthy \u201d\u2019.Probably this person cannot imagine anybody be- : GENERAL CONDITIONS FOR [ing a political leader without being \u201cPUT and TAKE\u201d COMPETITION | wealthy.Just envy, Ferguson, just 1.Where entry forms are provid- envy.ed, these muat be used by competitors.~ - 2, All names and addresses must ; copies pentes, A musical comedy actress now be- be written in ink by the person com- [comes Duchess of Leinster.Thus TN do we preserve the strain.BOLSKEVIKI AT QUEBEC It is quite the thing to ramp and rage at the Bolsheviki in Russia.Was ever a people so grossly abused?They are at once the stock-in- trade of the political stump speaker, the editorial writer, and the vaudeville artist.We hold no brief for Russia or the Russian system otherwise than to say that the people of Russia should be allowed that self-determination that every other nation is now accorded.The fetish of the Russian Bolsheviki is of course, the national ownership of everything; communal ownership.It is to this that perspiring politicians, ramping writers, and others of lesser size devote their angered atten- ion.\u2018 Well, the virus seems to have reached poor old Quebec.How else can we explain the extraordinary lapse from individualism on the part of Mr.Taschereau and his supporters.They have become Bolsheviki So- far they have only made a beginning on the whisky business, but they have certainly Bolshevised that trade all right.In the most tyrannical way, just as if they were real Russian Bolsheviks, they have said to the wholesale and retail dealers in spirituous liquors: \u201cGet -out, we want this business of yours.It is now ours.We take the liquor business over in the sacred name of the people.We, Taschereau and Co., are the people.Get out\u201d.And by right of eminent domain\u201d, and a few other legal lies and things they have gotten away with it.Compensa~ tion?Oh, no.In true Bolshevik style they simply entered in and took possession of the business and now they are running it in the spirit of Bolshevism.They act like dictators.They have taken away from the common people the right to object to the opening of liquor shops in their own neighbourhoods.They sell a café a bill of booze at 12 o'clock noon and at three o'clock of the same day they raid the place, seize this liquor and take away the permit to sell.They punish without trial, adjudging a man guilty before any judge has sat on his case.Thus, Bolsheviki-like, according to popular conceptions, they, through their Liquor Commisgion, have abolished justice and are a law unto themselves.When they want more revenue they simply open more liquor ships.The total number of licenses in Montreal they have increased from about 600 to about 1,200.They now threaten to take over the breweries from the brewers and themselves brew good Bolsheviki ale and beer.Truly, Quebec has become Bolshevised \u2014 we refer to the Quebec Government, not to the people or Province of Quebec\u2014and the only thing for Taschereau and Co.to do to complete the picture is to swear off the use of soap and let their hair grow long.Bolshevism, if it means anything, means State Ownership.But in Russia they seem to hawe nationalised only good and necessary things.But here, in the good old Province of Quebec, our Bolsheviki Government has got such a bad case on Bolshevism that it has taken over the management of the thing that is most unsocial, whisky, and Bolshevised it.Let us not call them Liberals any more.They are no longer worthy of that high name.They mouth the name-of Laurier, but every time his name is on their lips they defame his memory and \u201ctake his name in vain.\u201d They are not Liberals.They are Bolsheviki of the worst kind, without any of the high ideals possessed by the true Russian Bolshevik, plus a greed for revenue no matter how raised.Drunk with power they \u2018pursue their mad course, but retribution awaits them around the corm.| er.4 + _ } ; Segue ase \u201ca © eat Pts .PE Ah Le, L SRN RL .rage ¢ Preity Woman Living in THE AXE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY, 10th 1088.\u201cA Broken Butterfly\u201d Luxury Commits Suicide in London Flat.PITIFUL (The following story of a broken butterfly, than sinning,\u201d may serve as a warning to of a gay life.Behind the suicide in a South Kensington flat of a handsome woman in her twenty-fifth year, lies the story of a country girl caught in the butterfly life of London and driven to a wretched death.Mrs.Audrey Knowles -Harrison lived in the well-to-do locality known as Sussexplace.With no other endowment than her beauty, she came from Aylesbury, in Bucks, to secure a stage appointment.Not 20 years of age, prepossessing, a clever conversationalist and smart dancer, within a few weeks of her arrival in London she made the acquaintance of several Australian officers.One night in September, 1917, she was introduced to Captain Maitland Knowles-Harrison, and withina couple of months the pair were married at a register office.Six weeks later Captain Knowles-Harrison was attached to the Indian Army Reserve and drafted abroad.He was deeply in love with his wife, and arranged with his solicitors that she should have an allowance which would keep her in comfort.They corresponded regularly for some time, and then the husband received a letter from her suggesting that he should divorce her.Captain Knowles-Har- rison wrote A LETTER OF FORGIVENESS and continued his allowance until certain facts were brought to his knowledge.He then returned to England.For two months he searched unsuccessfully in London for his wife Then suddenly his solicitors were notified that the wife had died of gas poisoning in South Kensington.The news was conveyed to the captain, who visited the flat and identified\u201d the body.The scenes was a very affecting one.Deceased had been known as a frequenter of night clubs for some time past, and occupied sumptuously-furnished flats in the Haymarket and other parts of the West-end.Titled people were amongst her acquaint ances, and she was often seen on horseback in the Park.Three months ago a child of deceased's, four or five years of age, died at Oxford, and this greatly distressed her.She took to alcohol, quaintance of a man of independent means.When she took the flat at Sussex-place he was a constant visitor there, and deceased lived for a time under his protection.The night before her death he left her, to re-: turn to the hotel he was staying at in the City, and it is known that deceased went to Princes for dinner.Later, she visited a club in Bond-street, and then a breakfast club in Percy-street, Tottenham Court road.When she returned to the flat she presumably went straight to the kitchen, put her head into the oven, and turned on the gas, for, at her death, she wag still vzearing a valuable fur coat over her evening dress, diamond rings, and bracelets.Acquaintances of Mrs Knowles-Harrison tate that since the death of her child sev- 3ral months ago she had been depressed, And declared that she had nothing to live for.Holding an inquest on.deceased at Hammersmith, Mr.H, R.Oswald summed up the unfortunate woman's suicide as \u201cA very sad and tragic end to a young life which might have been useful and happy.\u201d \u2014Captain Maitland Knowles-Harrison, of the Indian Army Reserve, identified de-.If so, it will have served its purpose, \u2014 Ed.* STORY.» perhaps, \u201cmore sinned inat some who are lured by the bright Tights The Axe\u201d.me any mors, In February, 1021, I was on my way nome, and that was partly why I stopped the allowance.1 was on my way to the concentration camp, but was unfortunately made a member of a Court of Inquiry, and for one reason or another was held np for eight months.I arrived home on Nov.21, and the first thing I did was to try and find out the address of my wife.I went to Cox's, but they had not her address, as she had called personally for her letters and allowance.1 also went to my lawyer's, through whom I sent letters to her.I traced her \u2018oa flat in Knightsbridge, but beyond that I could get no information of her.\u2014When did she leave Knigbtabridge?\u2014I do not know.\u2014 You only learned her last address after her death?\u2014 I learned itfrom the police when 1 was asked to identify her.\u2014 1 understand when you first married she was a ltotal abstainer?\u2014 Absolutely.\u2014How long after your marriage did you have to leave for India?\u2014 A months or six weeks, \u2014 When did she give up being a total abstainer?\u2014 I do not know.\u2014 Did she give changed?\u201cLIVED UNDER HIS PROTECTION\" means, living at the Central London tel, Charterhouse-street, E.C., gave evidence that he had known Mrs.Harrison for about three and a half years.She was à very temperate woman, He had not no- met her by appointment.the flat and left together, but parted out- and drank brandy\u2019 heavily.Two years ago she made the ac-! on the day of the tragedy, and I then heard of her death.About a week before she wag very down-hearted, but that, 1 thought, had passed over.I do not know what had She had never definitely threatened to take her\u2018life, but had declared, \u201cI am fed up and will probably do myself in.\u201d I! did not take it seriously, and\u2019 do not know what had caused her to be \u201cfed up.\u201d \u2014 Was she in financial difficulties?\u2014 I do not know.She had never complained to me of such difficulties.She sometimes spoke of her husband when 1 first knew her, but not latterly.\u2014 She did not blame him in any way?\u2014 No; she was anxious for him to come back.\u2014Do you know she never answered his letters?\u2014 She was a very bad correspondentéa \u2014 No other light you can throw on this act of apparent self-destruc- tion?\u2014 No \u2014 Did you know she had lost à child?\u2014 I did not know that \u2014 She was living under your protection?\u2014 At one me \u2014 When did that association end?\u2014 ceased as his wife, Her maiden name was It ended about 18 months ago \u2014 Was that Audrey Bernard, and he last saw her alive on December 21, 1917, at Southampton, when he sailed for India Owing to the operations of the German submarines, the authorities would not allow his wife to accompany him.He had approached the Indiay Office and done all he could to secure .permission for her to do so.At first letters pasded regularly, but then her correspondence became irregular.He received a letter at Christmas, 1919, and in 1920 he only received one.That was in April.\u2014 \" Coroner: Did you always support her?\u2014 Yes, I : DID NOT STOP THE ALLOWANCE until March, 1921, when I was on my way home.In April, 1920, she told me she was living with another man, but that was all.1 could not get another word out of ber.1 continued writing and remitting to her after hhe had told me that.\u2014 Did you for rive her?\u2014 Yes, but she did net write to 4 .TL AE : 0 pa Ed - Camp Ee at your instance or hers?\u2014 I lost a lot of money \u2014 As witness was leaving the box Gapt.Harrison requested permission.of the cordher to put a question: \u201cWould witness be surprised,\u201d he asked, \u201cto know that ments having beerl made from deceased to him?\u201d \u2014 Coroner (to witness): Did you know that?\u2014 Witness: I have eashed cheques for her.\u2014An officer of the Court: The suggestion is that money has been paid by Mrs.Harrison to Mr.Durnsford.\u2014Co- roner: His answer is that he has cashed cheques for her.\u201cA DEPRESSED VIEW OF LIFE.\u201d Summing up, the Coronsr remarked that the evidence of the three men was not material, but it might have been useful.What was the life led by this poor creature?Be cause of the warfare carried on by the German submarines she\u2019 had been \u2018prevented from accompanying her husbiad to India.everybody u French and Bi ply would be, \u201cOh, I him than with him.gent need for fresh years I have longed to be in a posit flect my own W hy | Publish The awful burden of public indifference to great public is one of the great hindrances to all real advance along social have talked with men in their offices, for instance, regarding condi.\u201ctions at the Montreal City Hall, in the bad old days.They have damned .hill and down dale.Particularly would they curse the .ame all our civic troubles upon our French fellow-citisens.Then I have said, \u201cWell, who did you vote for for Mayor\u201d?And the re- never vote; what's the use?\u201d Now what right has any man who won't take the trouble civic administration?None whatever.tizen, an undesirable citizen, and Montreal would be better off on public questions, ta say just what that many were thinking but few dare utter; to run counter to the ae cepted opinion if I thonght it wrong, and to blurt out goad, truth if the Heavens fell, no matter if the high mucky;mucks were offended and some reputations did get damaged.This will help to explain THE AXE somewhat.I want it rsonality, to voice my own ideas, to speak f what I think should be said at the moment.sails to catch the popular breeze, nor catch myself won my reaaers like this or that; will it hinder my circulation work to my detriment?There's room for a paper that will tell the and not fear, and THE AXE will try to fill the niche.The Axe ry to turn out and vote to blame the Such a man as that is a bad ci- without The average man does not think for himself.He takes his opinions already cut and dried for him from his morning or evening paper.You will hear him expressing these papers\u2019 views as if they were his own.Poor fool, he thinks they are his own original conception a gramaphone record, repeating what somebody else has imprinted on J the sensitive, impressionable plate of his wax-like mind.There is an and daring thinking and for feariess utterance.jon to speak out bluntly and plainly and he\u2019s just ure For I believed should be said, the thing wholesome to re carjessly I don\u2019t want to trim my how wi will it truth JOHN H.ROBERTS, De After six weeks of married life Captain Harrison had to rejoin his regimens.That you particulars of her life?\u2014 No details.| yy, ~\u2014Is it a fact that at one time she intended wopan to find herself in.Captain Harel to go on the stage?\u2014 She never told me\u2019 so.\u2014 You stopped the allowance partlyimoney for her support.Her letters be- because you were coming home?\u2014Yes, and partly because I thought if I stopped the! he was living with another man her has allowance she would write to me.\u2014 When | banc = you identified her did you find her much\u2018 per.ticed any change in her in this respect; but \u2018he had seen little of her during the last| year.The last time he saw her alive was\u2019 on the evening before her death, when he: They met at| side, as she was going to dine with friends.| He was not one of the party.\u2014Did you ses\u2019 \u2018her again alive?\u2014No, not alive.She had suffered from \u2018flu, and I used to go round! and take her dog out.Accordingly I called! depressed her, but put it down to influenza, |.his name appears in the bank-book as pay-|.re a very pathetic position for the poor son corresponded frequently and remitted} came fewer, and after she confessed that very generously continued to support Evidence showed that recently she had been short of money, and that some three months ago she began to take to Mr.Basil Durnsford, of Independent) drink, and the specialkind of drink she Ho.| indulged in to excess was brandy.She had spoken of being \u2018\u2018fed up,\u201d but nevertheless it would appear that the idea of self-de- struction was & sudden impuise when she arrived at her flat There was no doubt that her mind was deranged by drink and an attack of influenza, for which she had ne- glectad it.She had lost her danghter, and had been living « more or less loose kind of life.These circumstances must have made her take a melancholy and depressed view of life.His verdict was that \u201cDeath was due to coal-gas poisoning, and that Mrs, Harrison killed herself while tn a state of temporary insanity.\u201d \u2014 \u201cNews of the World\u201d, (London, Eng.) Twenty Five Years Hence (Editor's Note: \u2014 It fs a tTommon practice on the part of some newspapers to feature the principal news items of twenty-five years ago.THE AXE goes one better.We show here tte news of twenty-five years hence, Montreal.\u2014 Coroner.McMahon again postponed the inquest in the Délorme murder for a week to allow the detectives to complete their case.Quebec.Mr.' Sauvé, -the Premier, replying to à member of the opposition, said there was not the least possibility of the Government ever consicering the reintroduction of Government Ownership of the liquor trafic, the unfortunate experiment of twenty-five years ago having satisfied them that such an un.dertaking- was neither morally nor economically sound.Montreal.\u2014 Médéric Martin, Mayor of Monteal, in an interview with the press representatives said he was going to Quebec.to press upon the Legislature his claims for larger powers to be given to the Mayor of Montreal, particularly as regar ds the control of civic employes.' =.Ottawa, \u2014 Hon.Charles Stewart wag reported-to have found a con- stitueney in one of the prairie provinces, but no more inite information was available._ Le Montreal.\u2014 The City Council decided to-spend five:dollars.on repairing 8%.Catherine Streef.7°! 7 rm a ve ç What The Man In The Street would Like to know Who is the ex-M.P.whose arrest may be hourly expected?What is the name of the man real- * ly guilty of the murder of Blanche Garneau?.Is it true that he is the son of a highly-placed Government servant at Quebec.Does this explain the sensitive atmosphere whenever thé Garneau case Je mentioned in.the Legislature : If somebody was shielded re fhe Garneau murder, f anybody is being protected in the rme Case?Who were the nine tavern keep-, ers that rumour says paid several thousands of dollars each to get licenses from the Liquor Commission?What ie the true story behind the Vin St, Michel affair?- How comes it that the partner of the Chairman of the Liquor Commissioner acquired this valuable business enterprise?.: , ( What is the real name of the a partment house in Montreal which is commonly known as \u201cThe Abode of Love\u201d?Poppy Day, P Cock \u2026 a or loue somewhat We have received a abusive letter from Mr.J.= man, Men's Committee, D.S.E.A, Mont - real, in criticism of the article sppearing ,\u2018 in THE AXE of last week, under above In a previous'letter Mr.Amos that money collected in, Montreal for the Poppy Rar Fund to the extent of $10,000 was ng held until the spring and summer when the fit men: would have employment and nobody would want to employ disabled men.We simply want to know why the money ls Bot ° used NOW, when there appears to be caption.had informed us Tecesity for its expenditure, and not six: months hence.And we take the high = ground that a physically fit mén who can« not find employment is also \u201cdisabled\u201d.| Mr.Amos and his confrères, in whom we._.have the, fullest gonfidence ; whom we i elp, may r Ser only of Montreal will appreciate & gonwrous in tion of their trust in \u2014 regard to the Poppy Pay Funds rather - .- than any technical te oe te mo.or 7 they have given 80 ._ py oar article f himself a disabled soldier: though happily not incapacitated for work, _ : on Lp A.Re Tan TRY Ce eB egy Toe SPE gh » 3 A C} i o - assured that: © "]