The Axe, 23 juin 1922, vendredi 23 juin 1922

[" CRITICAL PLAIN COMMENT SPEAKING WITHOUT CONCERNING FEAR OR | PUBLIC FAVOR.A JOURNAL OF ACTION AGAINST REACTION QUESTIONS.EDITED BY JOHN H.ROBERTS _ \u201cLAY THE AXE AT THE ROOT OF THE TREE\" \u201cNe.24 MONTREAL, FRIDAY, JUNE 23rd, 1022 Annual subscription Twe dollars.; Price: 5 conte.IS MONTREAL SOCIETY ROTTE! APPEAL TO BANK OF MONTREAL .10 REMOVE LOGAN- BRYAN WIRE FROM THE BANKS PREMISES Kansas City Bucketeer Hiding Behind the Skirts of Canadian Institution\u2019s Respectability.The Officers and Directors, The Bank of Montreal.Gentlemen :\u2014 We draw your attention to the firm of Logan and Bryan, of New York, Chicago, etc, whose wire is run into your Head Office, leased by you from them.For several months, in every issue of this journal, we have been drawing attention to this firm, exposing their practices, and denouncing their misdeeds.So far they | have ventured no reply to our) criticisms and we believe that the judgment of the public has gone against them by default.That they are able to flaunt and defy public opinion is, in our reasoned opinion, due largely to the fact that they are able to hide themselves in the shelter of great worthy institutions like your own.It is a matter of common knowledge that Benjamin.B.Bryan, who is really Logan and Bryan, ever boasts of his associations with the Bank of Montreal and, remembering the high standing and prestige of your institution, we contend that his SMART SOCIETY ANDITS ANOURS Doings of man many y Members of Society, with a Big S, under the Searchlight.There are some trees that OUR POLITICAL PLATFORM : WE WANT A FIVE CENT \"TAR FARE.t| decay and rot from the top downwards.Someone has said that reforms spring from the poor, vices from the rich.That the poor are not all virtuous nor the rich all vicious is fair- -solé-eviiient.But that there is more excuse to be made for the vices of the poor than for TO GET \u201cTHE AXE\u201d the immoralities of the rich is equally clear.Many of Montreal\u2019s poor (let us deal with ity as a fairly con- IN THE COUNTRY crete example of moet great cities) many of Montreal's If you would like to get|poor, we say, live under such THE AXE during your sum-|conditions that the observance mer vacation, if summer everland development .of morality comes, let us mail it to you each week.Send us ten cents for two weeks, twenty cents for four weeks, or fifty cents for three months.Or send us the name of a country newsagent (do this anyhow) Address: The Axe Publishing Co.20 St.James Street, Montreal is almost an impossibility.To be compelled to live \u201chiggledy- piggledy\u201d as many large families are, with not sufficient sleeping rooms to enable all the intimate processes of life to be performed with that separateness that is possible to (continued on page 3) ps MONTAGU ALLAN not on to his job.OUR POLITICAL PLATFORM : DOWN WITH THE LIQUOR COMMISSION ! ONTARIO MORALITY Ontario, especially Toronto, ever boasts of its superiority in morals as compared with Quebec.But the Divorce Committee of the Senate has had 105 applications for divorces from Ontario during the present session of Parliament as contrasted with 8 from Quebec.Perhaps a Toronto edition of THE AXE might help redeem the situation.aaa 2\" What The Man In The-Street Wants To Know i ability to refer to this connection is the greatest \u201csales arg- respondents throughout Canavery strong sense, makes The Bank of Montreal responsible for the firm of Logan and Bryan.~~ CHARGES RE-STATED.Now, what are the charges we have made against Logan briefly, as follows:\u2014They in-|prize?.veigle their customers and correspondents into the pur- protection What factory x OK Is it true that there is more for animals Montreal than for the workers in some factories?in Montreal ument\u201d he has in securing cor- |lately had a petition got up to remove an employe in order to da.You can see how this, in a make room for the foreman\u2019 8 sister ?,[ in What has happened to the and Bryan?We sum them up|girl who won the beauty * x kK Would chase or sale of stocks or, say, | agency to find her?grain by supplying false and misleading inormation as to gell when they know prices will probably rise.To one part be correct in both instances.Yet this firm does this.They continued on page 8 | .ne.XX it need a detective Who are the leading stock- the rise or fall of prices, adv-| broker and railway executive ising them to buy when they | who are known as \u201ccock.fight know prices are falling and to| fiends ?\u201d SEK om Why does a Montreal Depof the country they will sendjartment Store advertise 60 advices to buy and to another | Watt Lamps at 25 cents each part advices to sell.Manifestly,|in the evening papers and advice io buy and sell the same | have none on sale at 9.80 the \u201c &tock at the same time cannot | following morning ?Is this hina in adverts.ing\u201d?.= PE a Has the Bank Manager regained his \u201cswastika\u201d yet?x K x Are there many gold fish in the rich brooks, or only high game?What Montreal judge is it that is interesting himself in getting the Criminal Code altered so that magistrates must send first offenders to jail without any option?OH HN Have you been to.Al Rogers\u2019 to see that dandy cigarette |\u2018 making machine he advertises in THE AXE?5s x 8 .Has the Knight's son quite removed the image of .the \u2018| American officer's wife from his heart?- X % X How far is New York from, Montreal and does love con- quér distance?What does the uptown fur- rier know about the young lady from France?- 4 Who is the St.Catherine!\u2018 Street restaurateur who paid over $900 to get a license for the sale of liquor and has not got either license or money back?x % Rn And who is the young lawyer who guaranteed that papa\u2019s influence would get the license but failed to deliver the goods or return the money?, x x + What was the motive of Alderman Carmel in calling \u2018next meeting\u201d to Alderman Jacob\u2019s resolution re the carnival on Fletcher\u2019s Field?HOE OW How is it the Motorists\u2019 Club can get away with the stuff it does?xk x Who is the interested party?® mx = How much did a certain director of the defunct Mer- TRIAL AND DISMISSAL OF SIR BY JUDGE CUSSON CANADA'S BLACKEST JUDICIAL SCANDAL Judge who publicly whitewashed Allan should never have sat in Enquete \u2014 Bank President must face Grand Jury \u2014 Attorney General Judge Cusson has dismissed the case against Sir Montagu Allan.\u201cI find no fault in this man\u201d, said the judge, in effect.That is just what THE AXE of June 9th.said he must say in order to be consistent with himself.In dismissing the charges against D.C.Macarow, Judge Cusson declared that it was useless to proceed with the charges against Allan, The judge was r i was useless, How col A ba be otherwise?Before the judge heard the evidence he said it would be so and it was so; the judge dismissed the case.The judge has at least been honest with himself.TASCHEREAU' REMISS, But what a farce it makes of the trial of Allan! Judge Cusson should never have been allowed to sit in the Allan case.The Attorney General should have prevented him sitting on the ground that he had already prejudged the case.Judge Cusson should never have allowed himself to sit in the case, for the same reason, He himself kne®% that he had prejudged the case, having said it was of no use to proceed with the charge against Allan.What a damnable plight our Courts are in; what unspeakable depths have they descended to! That à judge who does not wish the trial of a prisoner to proceed, because he has dismissed a sis milar case against another prisoner, should proceed to sit in the case, that he himself should feel no compunction about doing so, judging him by his actions, and that the Attorney Genera] of the Province should either manifest so little interest in the vital issue.involved, the honor and sanctity of our Courts, or be total- - |ly indifferent to the vindication of justice, is at once a crime against the people whose servants the Attorney General, Mr.Taschereau, and Judge Cusson, are.It is one of the blackest scandals that has chants\u2019 Bank clean up over the Nordheimer Building?, (continued on page 4) ! = #54: wea Page ?mr Ame arte i ve THE AXE, FRIDAY, JUNE 28rd.1923 over again.oxcept : Club.Their names must or that list.The doings could happen.because it is the biggest nadian up against any real fight and he will make good.The way Canadians have conquered the wilderness and their conduct on the battlefields of the Empire have proved it over and In courage, initiative, resourcefulness, dash, daring, audacity, in all the characteristics of real men and women we are not lacking Yes, there is an exception.comes to a matter of .public concern, to political matters, to the thing that is everybody\u2019s business but not ours individually, to the fighting of social injustice, to the resentment of civic and social wrong, we are strangely lethargic and indifferent.In many cases we do arouse ourselves and Take the big fellows in business.It doesn\u2019t seem to matter how they got their money, soon as they have entered the millionnaire class, we Canadians begin to practise & snobbery in regard to them that is positively nauseous.They must be made President of this Board, or of that families must be reported in the press and we must read about them.And these little \u201cbig fellows\u201d get such swelled heads as a consequence of this adulation and sycophantry that their ego becomes most abnornally developed until their personalities get almost unbearable.In politics, 1 think, this kissing the feet of the big fellows is carried to the utmost excess.The strange idea seems to have fastened itself on the minds of many of us that the men we elect to serve us in City Council, Legislatures, and Parliament, are our masters, our rulers, our bosses, that if we want anything from them we must ask it as a favor, and that even legislation for the public good must be sought as a concession and a privilege not as something these persons ought to be glad to do because it is right to do it.If we want a personal service from any of these elected persons we invariably try to find somebody who can \u201cget next\u201d to them, who know them, who have the entree, instead of going to them direct and asking for what we want and risking the refusal, which is the worst that Its the same when any great social principle is involved.We must not criticise the C.P.Rin Canada.The Bank of Montreal?\u2014 speak about it with bated breath! Look at its immense wealth and influence.Our judges?don\u2019t ever criticise a judge or his judgment \u2014 he might rule against you some time.Somebody getting a deal?Well, that\u2019s his business, not ours, Whenever it be secured to head this of themselves and their and richest corporation raw and, OY COUNGL Alderman shows great Anxiety to Protect Fletcher's Field Fair Promoters.Alderman Carmel, Montreal City Council.Carmel :\u2014 Meeting\u201d.Why?If you are sitting in the councils of this city with only a view to serving the citizens of this city you undoubtedly realise that the fair which has robbed the public of the use of a great portion of a public playground, has not been operated in the interests of the citizens of Montreal.You know that the fair\u2019s promoters are working for the promoters, and you know that they will not leave the Field in the good shape they found it in.\u201d You know that the presence of this hideous so-called fair has robbed the poor of Montreal of so much open space in which to take their recreation.If you know anything at all, you know that this Fletcher's Field Party has not been in any way in the public interest.Our estimation has always been that we pay our civic servants to work for us and to be of service to us.You might query some of your confreres on this point.We are watching you fellows and these tactics which prevent discussion of matters of urgent civic interest, THE AXE.STOCK EXCHANGE natural.If we are not going to have an examiner, there isn\u2019t much in telling us what he will examine.! As to the urgent need for Stock Exchange Reform, there can be no doubt.Look over the list of failures within the last two years, and you will realise that if these members of the Stock Exchange had been doing nothing but a stockbroking business, failures could Unless brokers are placed under certain restrictions by the Exchange, the same thing will happen over again.Times will become better.Brokers will gamble against their clients.The trough of the wave will come once more and will result in another repetition of the old old story.The broker will go broke, but his clients will pay.Thèvefore we ask Mr.Ekers, as president of the Stock Exchange, to announce the intentions of his august body.If the Stock Exchange will not introduce the necessary improvements, the movement will have to come from a different angle.And to the.public we say, \u201cUntil such time as you hear something to back up the pro- pagand& which the Stock Exchange has given you,\u2014know thy broker.\u201d Get busy, Mr .Ekers.NEW LAW DOES NOT TUCHROT 0F RUG TRAE The new Jaw which will force Exorbitant Premium paid by Soldier for Protection in Local Building.\u2014Other Policy-holders get low Rate.To Judson G.Lee, Limited, An ex-soldier named Dris coll obtained a grant from the Department of Soldiers\u2019 Civil Re-Establishment for the purchase of tools to follow his trade of watch-repairing.His agreement with the Government called for insurance against fire in the Government\u2019s favour of the tools he purchased.In keeping with his agreement with the Government Mr.Driscoll insured the tools through your company in the sum of three hundred dollars, for which he was charged the exorbitant sum of four dollars and fifty cents for one year\u2019s insurance, _ The policy is absolutely s cific and insures the tools for a certain building, the maximum rate pdr hundred dollars at present is fifty-five cents for this building, yet you charged this man one dollar and a half per hundred dollars.This is exploitation of the worst kind, Lee, and although the company, which now acts as agent for the assurance company you dealt with in this case, is having - the premium adjusted, it does not lessen the responsibility of your firm.his is a case which deserves exposure.Look out that you do not make any more blunders like this.THE AXE, \u2014 CARMEL BLOCKS [rom ommen\u2014APENSVE FRE.Why [Push The Axe oor prmpy [sores | NINE We are not cowards usually.Put the average Ca.MONTREAL.RETURNED M AN make things happen but it takes a long time to .What particularly friendly not have occurred in the man- get action and more than an ordinary crisis to interest have you in the Yan-|ner in which they did.Insurance Agents, + stir our impulses, kee-promoted fair which has|UP TO MR.EKERS, 138 Notre Dame Street \u2018 And with this there is a peculiar subservien- been held on Fletcher's Field,| It is up to President Ekers City, ce to the \u201cbig fellows\u201d in every branch of our | presumably for Charity, but to act.Conditions which have Sirs:\u2014 y.,Ç Canadian life, the big fellows in business, the big in reality for the financial ag-| prevailed amongst stock ex-|\" ve d fellows in the political world, the big fellows in grandisement of the promot-|change brokers, the manner in) a hab not know whether : the social realm, that makes us kow-tow, and ers?In the City Council this| which the public has been hn habitually follow the prac- grovel, and flatter, in order either to get their week you were very anxious to | treated by brokers who played Seat of soaking the Returned favor or some concession or recognition.Instead have Alderman Jacobs\u2019 activi-|the market against their cus.|Soldier, but your company and of standing firmly and strongly on the high ties against this fair postponed tomers with their customers\u2019 Ie agent who calls himself Tground of justice, we try to secure as a privilege until it was over and to|money shows just cause for|Lynch have executed at least .and a favor what it is ours by right.stop discussion until \u201cNext|Stock Exchange Reform.oc cransaction, the odour of » ) besides, we might have to go to Court if we took - his side.The Government putting something over us?Better not criticise those big fellows or else \u2018 when you want something you won't get it.What rot! No company, no bank, no judge, no Govern- ment, is above the law or beyond criticism.If they do wrong, say so.If they do right give them their meed of praise.But for God\u2019s sake, let us = be men, unafraid of might and power.Let us Lat take the unpopular side and fight for justice when magistrates to imprison all persons REFORMS MERELY rs ion re A PROPAGANDA?pater bow non hey mb is not going to kill the Drug Traffic ROLL YOUR OWN WITH THE CORECT CGMETE | by any means For while judges Public Still Awaits Infor- continue to send unfortunate men .and women, (some addicts, some mation as to the Examnot), to prison, other members of the community will continue to im- ir 3} the call comés to us.There's more in life than the smile of the \u201cbig fellows\u201d and that is the know- wronged.And, what is perhaps quite as import- FIGHT PICTURE COMING: Followers of Fisticana will relish the opportunity of seeing the Carpentier-Ted (Kid) Lewis pictures at ihe Allen next week.This picture is most excellent in detail and is spoken of as one of the best fight pictures ever screened.The management of The Allen has gone to great trouble to bring this picture here.J x HIGH CLASS FINANCE Not so very long ago, F.C.Hollinger, Logan and Bryan\u2019s broadcaster in Chicago, sent out the following message: \u201cIt is a cinch wheat is \u201c headed for 140.Don't let the breaks worry you\u201d.Wheat went down ten points in the next couple of weeks, enough to kill many men.F.C.H.should have added to the definite information as to what advice: \u201cIf you lose we win\u201d.fhis duties will be, Which is] vb .iner and his Dutiesbe alright\u201d.We shall continue to hold this belief until such time as the Montreal Stock Exchange makey some definite announcement as to what it has done, is doing, or intends to do.The Stock Exchange announced that an Examiner would be appointed.We have not yet heard any mention of his name, nor have we had jport and sell drugs, in order that m ore unfortunates may be caught M.P.s will cry: \u201cLook what we have ports of entry into this country more carefully watched?When these laws are enforced there will be some chance for ug to stamp out this great evil which threatens the roots of Society.The trouble with so many members of the Ottawa Gas House is their unbounded belief in Hot Air and it's salubrious effects on the country.Mere verbiage from Hon, Jacques Bureau against the drug traffic will never hurt the traffic.It takes a club to kil] à snake, SEE THIS MACHINE AT Al Rodgers 675 St.Catherine St.W.AT BISHOP ST.PHONE UPTOWN 5096.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 The Axe is published by John H, Roberts and printed by The Ame Publishing Ce, 30 St.James Street, Montreal, > to ¢ ant in counting gains and losses, there's a great paganda, preached by the = ve na .: deal more fun in being men and playing men\u2019s Montreal Stock Exchange at done to da the Dr cee Price $1.25 parts than in in being lick-spittles, sycophants the time when Mr.Austin to the enforcement of existing Cost of 20.Ready-Made and snobs.Ekers stepped into Mr, Gar-laws?Why is there not the most Cigarettes JOHN H.ROBERTS land\u2019s shoes as president, was|vorous examination of wholesale 40 CENTS just so much eye-wash, cal- |\" 80100 CX À Cost of 20 culated to gull the public into |i EES and jobbers and retailers st o | A) .ito prevent illioit traffic throug \u201cCorrect\u201d Rolled Cigarettes believing that \u201ceverything will these sources?Why are not the ; 9 CENTS 4 ledge that we have fought a battle for the right \u2014_\u2014 mo: u 1 .¥ and \u201ctaken some little felow\u2019s side when he was We have come to the con-| With He goods and sent to jail to clusion that the Reform Pro-|§Tatify the law.en gassing O Soe 2 oD es LU . \u2014_ THE AXE, FRIDAY, JUNE 23rd.1922 IS MONTREAL SOCIETY ROTTEN?SMART SET AND ITS AMOURS Doings of Members of City's Smartest Set Under the Searchlighttone fees (continued from page 1) the rich is not conducive to morality.The wonder to us is not that the poor are so bad but, considering the conditions under which they are compelled to live, that they are 30 pure and virtuous.With this overcrowding comes temptation to the daughters of the poor to sell their virtue in order to live and dress decently, with like temptations meet- img the young men of the poor to buy the sexual indulgence cannot afford to get through the gateway of marriage because their low wages so often prevent marriage.If with these conditions there is an example of immorality amongst the rich and highly- placed, well, the poor cannot be blamed too severely.But how about the rich?What about Montrea] High Society?A HUNTER OF MEN .There are many good and noble people in the ranks of Montreal High Society.We would like to think that these are a majority.But we have no means of determining this point.There are a great many that are simply rotten and we use the term, rotten, with all its implications.Many of these people Whose very wealth and high social position imposes on them the duty of living clean and inspiring lives are so abominably bad that the stench of their immoralities almos® cries to high Heaven.These people, in many cases, parade their titles, boast of their Vice-Regal friendships, flaunt their wealth, and expect the adulation of their fellow citizens.\u201cInwardiy they are.ravening wolves\u201d, as the Old Book says.Take, for instance, the wife of a well-known money king.This lady's amours are the talk of Society.With almost unlimited wealth, she buys the favors she wants and has been known to descend to the common herd to satisfy her amorous propensities, Her name many be seen in connection with the highest of Society functions but she is not too high to associate herself with the chauffeur, the footman, the gardener.Of course, she is abnormal as any woman must be who becomes the hunter instead of the hunted.Going South every winter her con-|, quests are the scandal of many communities where the weather is warmer in the Canadian winter-time than it is in Canada.Yet her patronage is lent to many charitable affairs, and she and her husband stand high, thong the highest, indeed, in \u201cMontreal Society with a big S.Were she a common laborer\u2019s wife there might be some excuse but for this pampered, petted thing what justification can there be?Yet though her follies are the talk of her circle she is received as if her greatest sin were the smoking of a cigarette! \u2018THE YOKE'S' DOCTRINE Or take another younger lady, one of the unmarried set.This creature boasts of her determination never to marry but to have all the fun that life can offer without marrying.Her motto 18: \u201cWhy marry?\u2019 Not very long ago she was reported to have left the city for a three months\u2019 trip.We should be very much surprised if it were not found that the young lady referred to occupied a fine apartment in Montreal! all that time and that, if still living, there isa baby somewhere that might later calli her \u201cmamma\u201d The almost: inevitable consequences of g the doctrines of \u201cThe Yoke\u2019.And so it goes.There is the high and mighty millionaire who lately went down to New York to meet the Italian Countess, the personal columns of a Mont real paper reporting on the same day his presence in New York and the Countess\u2019s arrival in New York.Then there\u2019s the brother of a multi-million- aire, industrialist and bank magnate, who (the brother, we mean, not the magnate who will go down to a house of ill fame, buy it pro tem, turn the key in the door, and indulge in one long drunk and debauch until finally his friends come and take him away.Even high political position does not seem to have any visible effect on the morals of some of these High .Society birds judging by the ex-Cabi- net Minister, a big industrial magnate, who practices \u201cflagellation.\u201d It is whipping of another kind and for another purpose that such a skunk should get, much as we disbelieve in the use of \u201cthe lash\u201d.But he contributes to almost every uplift organisation in the City.THE HALF NOT TOLD And the half has not been told, THE AXE is in a peculiar sense the organ of the working people of this city and country.By this we do not mean that we restrict the term worker to the worker by hand.We are rather fed up with the manner in which these Society bugs lord it over us of the common fry.They after al] are only very common clay and, if before interesting themselves in Rescue Homes for Fallen Girls, Maternity Homes for Unwise Mothers,\u201d and Cheap Meals for Working Girls, \u2018they will set the house of Society in order we shall have more respect for them.The conduct of the section of Society that we refer to at cabarets, balls, New Years\u2019 Eve celebrations, and similar events has long been an interesting topic of discussion in Mextreal.Of this same section it may truly be said that their language is the language of the stable and their morals the morals of the poultry yard.It is their privilege to live this way if they choose but the moral atmosphere of Montreal will be clearer and more wholesome if people cease fawning upon these vicious high-class elements and rate them at their true moral worth.We have a great deal more respect for the proititutes that infest the dens of the Red Light District or walk the streets in pursuit of their prey, disease carriers that they are, than we have for Big Society dames \u2018with their liasons, intrigues, and finished immoralities.The woman in red is usually a vietim of her economic environment, made immoral by low wages, RASCALS / TI DUR JAIL SYSTEM MAKES CRMINAS There is something sadly wrong with the system of unishment which law has uilded, something sad] wrong with any system whic beats a man down, breaks his AXE DISGUSTS spirit, and which makes of the beginner-in-crime a hard- life, ened criminal instead of giving TRUE LIBERALS the offender a helping hand and the chance to remake his It is a system whose execu- Well, so far, THE AXE has|tives become hardened cynics.scored against the Govern-| A system which sends a man ment's dastardly effort tolout into the world, presumably humiliate and crush its Editor freed from th e stigma of di and kil the paper.On Thurs- grace by the serving of his a d y las! ben cou 2 lotted \u201ctime\u201d, but which in ppes al the Cour, Touse| reality brands him for all time with his lawyer, Alderman| aa à \u201cjailbird\u201d must pass.For Lyon S.Jacobs, who volunteer- it there must be substituted ed to act in the case, the Gov-l the system which will send the ernment\u2019s attorney, Mr.Bertrand, had received \u201ccriminal\u201d back into society informed us that he| oii the chance of a fresh instructions to start, with the opportunity to get the case postponed until - July 10th.We have no objec ajc, $900.\"Those Who contions to postponing it until the Day of Judgment, 0 beings and not animals.They but Mr.must be there to help, not to rts is ready to face the!break, Then and only then music at any time and willl wij) the criminal have a fight fight the unjust exaction to ing chance.the bitter end.The publication of the story | \u201cout in our columns fairly stunned tion.the people of this province.The following story bears It needs no explana- Short and wisened, but very wiry, Every issue of THE AXE is a stunner but, thanks to Tas- with ot oe th ma ad chereau and Co, last week's |neared at London Sessions in the Was a super-stunner.We have |name of \u201cGeorge Williams.\u201d He been overwhelmed with tele-|has had an extraordinary criminal phone calls, letters and pers-|carcer and pleaded guilty to com- onal expressions from people mitting a burglary at the house of of all classes who have not on- [Ellen Wilkinson, at Lewisham, and ly expressed their sympathy |stealing six knives and six spoons.with Mr.Roberts but their in-|Prisoner made an emotional and: tense indignation with the [dramatic appeal to the judge, Mr.Provincial Government._As|Allan James Lawrie.\u201cI have never one prominent Liberal said, \u201cI|had an opportunity of being any- don\u2019t like your strong critic- [thing else but a criminal,\u201d he de- isms of Mr.Taschereau and |clared.\u201cIn the whole of my life I his Government but this is a|have never been given a chance, free country and it is your (and now I believe this is the last privilege to criticise\u201d, so many [time I shall ask for it.\u201d\u201d\u2014Mr, Frehave said.Scores have said to|derick Levy, prosecuting, explained us, \u201cTeschereau and his crowd [that prisoner was found stuck in get no more votes from us after this\u201d.And we firmly believe that this is one of those things, little in themselves, that are the cause of the overthrow the Government.The people of Quebec are demo- the lift shaft of the house.\u2014 Detective-sergeant Randles produced the jail-record of prisoner.He had spent almost forty years in prison, serving thirteen sentences.In the course of his appeal marked, \u201cI was not likely to come out at the age of 25 from seven prisoner re- cratic to the utmost and they ; .will resent at the polls this at.[74 Penal servitude better thon t tempt of their servants to be ed enough for my crimes.I have tyrannical masters and pre- ; ; vent free discussion, for such postage ed the à por it amounts to.TIMES ARE CHANGED.How different in the good |Will look after him, flogged on many occasions.\u201d \u2014 In order to see whether his relatives his lordship old days of Sir Lomer Gouin.postponed sentence.What a pity to see the splendid | heritage of toleration and just- ice being bartered away in order to feed the intense egot- sof (The Is ism of Premier Taschereau! New p The Street Is it not time that true Liberals stepped = into the breach and forced .Mr.Taschereau\u2019s| resignation in order to save Pithy, pointed pars pertaining to the pilots the Liberal Party from anni-|] of phinance.hilation at the polls?One thing is certain.If the Liberal Party There are rumors around appeals: to the electors in), Ho Chat the officials September, as has been announced, with Taschereau as its leader, the party is doomed.We are not overly much in love ; ; change.with Mr.Perron but he might formed, however, that nothing lead his party to victory.Taschereau cannot; and the attempted persecution of the of the Liquor Commission may make a call in the back room of the Montreal Stock Ex- We are credibly in- stronger than ginger ale is consumed there, that \u201csnap\u201d Editor of THE AXE, so illus- is the most exciting game trative of The Czar\u2019s methods, is a sign of the times, reveal-| Matchesing why a Taëchereau-led Liberal Party is headed for des- played and that only for x.x x The Investors\u2019 Guide of New truction.Let the true Liberals York sa ni ys that New York ponder these things in their! Stock Exchange failures have arts.cost the public over twelve million dollars.About twice \u2014 Her sister in High Socièty is|as much as Montréal failures none the less a scarlet woman| of the same kind.The propor- but with infinitely less excuse.tion is somewhat distorted.~ LPR WORKERS LOSE ETRAPA FOR SUNDAY WORK The Canadian Pacific Railway is prob the richest corporation in Canada.There are few richer in the world.It steadily pays high dividends to its stockholders.It has had bestowed upon it by the people of Canada, through their Parliament, riches that would of themselves be worth an Empire\u2019s ransom.In land granted to it by the Government it has sufficient potential -income to pay big dividends upon the invested capital for all time to come.Having received so much from the people of Canada, and being dependent upon the people of Canada for further enrichment, the C.P.R.owes & duty to Canada and we unhesitatingly say thiat part of that duty is to give the squarest of square deals to its employees.In making a new rule to pay its shop c-afts men ordinary day time pay for Sundays and holiday, instead of time and à half, as formerly, we believe there is a departure from the attitude of the square deal in this matter which has hitherto characterised that great company in this matter of.wages for Surday and holiday work.Amongst the employees of the C.P.R.are hundreds, if not thousands, of men who gave up all t'ieir Sundays and holidays to serve and fight in the trenches of Belgium and France to protect the property interests of the C.P.R., which owns more of Canada than anybody else, and it seems à trifle mean to now expect these heroes, these gentlemen who saved the Empire, to sa crifice their Sundays and holidays in the service of the C.P.R.without the accustom extra pay.Co There has lately been placed in the Windsor Station, Montreal, a magnificent piece of statuary as a memorial of those C.P.R.employees who gave their lives-in the Great War.The men whose memory is perpetuated by this monument would turn in their graves if they could know as they sleep \u201cIn Flanders Fields, where poppies grow\u201d, that the company which is willing to spend large sums of money in raising memorials to the dead is making their living comrades pay for those memorials by reducing their rates of pay.Fie.fie, gentlemen of the C.P.R., it is unworthy of you! ANOTHER CASE OF BAD GOVERNMENT The Government of Quebec has blocked a greatly needed reform.Urged by the interested societies to approve raising the age limit of Juvenile offenders who appear before the Juvenile Courts to 18, they have refused to do so.Consequently the Federal Government finds its hands tied.The megni- ficent preventive work done by Judge Choquet and his Juvenild Court amply justifies the desired change.But, no, the Quebec Government needs criminals to keep the Bordeaux Bastille at Montreal and Carbonneau\u2019s Castle at Quebec full and busy.God! They make us sick! .The Kansas Cyclone and °° Wisconsin Twister are shortly .due from Chicago to depress the price of wheat.Beware of the Buckety One.\u2019 ~ Eo À i 4 Te Le Ee | ARE ce 53 = .Page 4 LL APPEAL TO BANK ALLAN DISMISSAL - TO REMOVE WIRE'BLACKEST SCANDAL Buckety Ben Bryan Hides Behind Skirts of Bank of Montreal.(continued from pag, 1) have by this giving of misleading advice to their trusting correspondents been the means of many investors in Canada dosing mucn money and of several firms going out of busi- hess.In one pitiable case at Regina Sask., the firm which was their correspondent has been put out of business; one partner (a returned Canadian efficer) has committed suicide dnd the other is in jail as a -xesult of the machinations of Logan and Bryan.It is our firm belief that millions of dol- Jars have been taken from anadian people by these vam- res of the Stock Market and t principallv by their prac- fice of supplving false and foe sme\u201d information, know.g same to be false and mis.ding.- EXPERT CODE THIEVES.i The fact that Logan and ryan run a wire into your ead Office is also giving a foreign firm an insight into * INCOR HSTORS \u2018Attorney General's Inaction meets with Criticism \u2014 Bank President must face Grand Jury.| (continued from page 1) ever besmirched the fair name of the judiciary in the Dominion of Canada.THE PEOPLES\u2019 NAME.We protest in the name of the people against this open defiance of the principles of integrity and impartiality which must be the bulwarks of our legal system if the people are to retain any faith and confidence in our Courts of Law.And we make our protest the strongest that we can possibly make it because of the high social and commercial position of the accused in the case, Sir Montagu Allan, for the reason that the dismissal of these charges against a man so highly placed as he is may, and probably will, be construed by the public as another il- not work for yours or the: lustration of the doctrine of general good.These people are| \u201cone law for the rich and an- ur business, and into Canaglian business generally, that expert \u2018\u2018code-thieves\u201d, adept fit translating any code, however difficult, and as your messages pass over their wire Kand they have no scrupules, it ad for them to profit by ir knowledge of your busi- fneas.Of course, it is your busi- mess.but yours is a public institution and the public inter- st is at stake, for the ramifi- tions of The Bank of Montextend to almost every of the social and commer- 1 fabric of Canada.We be- teve the methods of doing usiness that are practised by Logan and Bryan, of 42 Broadway, New York City, are in- \u201cmical to the public interest of Canada, that many Canadians citizens have suffered serious losses through these methods, and that if this firm continues to receive the shelter of such institutions as yours, which it does because of their supplying you with a wire, and if other Fonorable bodies like Boards of Trade, Stock Exchanges, etc., still harbor them, then further great, if not greater, losses are due to be suffered by our Canadian people.- We, therefore, respectfully suggesi \u2018o vou that vou continue no longer to receive the Logan and Bryan wire into your head office, thus depriving these sharks of the prestige and standing they derive through doing so.Further, we suggest that an investigation will show that on the very wire service they supply to your Head Office they are deceiving you in that, while they may have given you to believe that you and they are the only users of the special -wire, at least two Of three other firms or businesses transact their business over the same wire, #listen in\u201d at will, and pay their \u201chalf\u201d just as your institution does.' J Deeply sensible of the se- Arious nature of the charges rwe make against this firm of \"Logan and Bryan, but believ- \u201cIng sincerely that we are serv- g the public interest, and ving only that public inter- : at heart, we urge your rnest consideration of this other law for the poor\u201d.This doctrine has far too many be- llievers already.Judge Cusson\u2019s dismissal of Allan will not cause their numbers to diminish, And THE AXE stands for the Law, for its wise, efficient and impartial administration and it resents and will denounce anything that detracts from its wisdom, weakens its efficiency, or robs it of its impartiality even to the slightest degree.That's our opinion, plainly and bluntly expressed.It may hurt somebody\u2019s feelings but the people's rights must be considered before the personal feelings of individuals.Now, what about Allan?As with Macarow, he must be taken before the Grand Jury.It is equally the duty of the Federal Government to have this done in Allan\u2019s case as it was in the case of Macarow.We have every confidence that the Government will do its duty again and especially do we feel the utmost confidence in the Minister of Justice in this respect.Frankly, we hope that both Sir Montagu Allan and D.C.Macarow may be proved innocent of all wrong in intent apd fact in regerd to the making of a False Return We know neither of the men and wish them no harm.Our stand is taken for high principle, for the treatment of rich and poor with the same equality and consideration, and for absolute impartiality in the administration of the law.But a mere preliminary trial such as Sir Montagnu Allan has had is not sufficient; there should in his own interests and in the public interest be the most searching and far-reaching trial possible.LET THE GOVERNMENT ACT.7 appeal.\u2019 The association of Thornton Davidson and- Co.with.The Merchants\u2019 Bank had disastrous results for that bank; we trust your institution survives association with Logan and Bryan.; Your obedient servants.THE AXE THE AXE, FRIDAY, JUNE SADOL BOARDS SHAE WAY The Protestant Board of School Commissioners.Montreal.Gentlemen :\u2014 In discontinuing your special classes for Mentally Deficient Children you have adopted a policy of reaction.Instead of pressing onwards, you slip back, and, in slipping, you do serious injustice to these kiddies.As usual, your reason hangs on that sacred word \u201cmoney\u201d\u2019\u2014it costs too much, and because of it these unfortunate children must pick up education the best way they can, presumably in the gutters of the city.What method do you adopt as to judgment of the child-mind?Who decides that a child is mentally deficient?Your Board is not a joint-stock company.You have no dividends to pay.You have recently increased rates for certain schools.Why not forget the God of Revenue for the moment and think what result your action may have on the city\u2019s children?Surely it is education that these children need.Gentlemen, remember your responsibilities! THE AXE.\u201cFIXER\u201d DEFEATS JUSTICE BUT AIDS POO PLKPOCKET Times are easy for the pickpocket in Montreal.He may loot the public, steal the widow\u2019s purse, \u201cpinch\u201d the baby\u2019s lollipop and remove the roll from the trousers pocket of the average citizen, buat nothing will happen to the pickpocket if he knows who to see and how to fix it.Recently two pickpockets of international repute were caught red-handed on a street car.They were lifting a large \u201cwad\u201d from a passenger, when they were caught in the act.The \u201cdip\u201d who had removed the money threw the roll of bills into the street.The car was stopped.The victim nabbed the men with the assistance of the tramways conductor, and a policeman was called.The two pickpockets were taken to the court house where they were brought before a judge, who set bail and the date for hearing.On the date set for the hearing the pickpockets appeared, but not the complainant, nor his witnesses, and Judge Enright, perforce, dismissed the case.: There is a certain notorious, friend of the pickpockets in Montreal.When a pickpocket gets in wrong it is to this man he turns\u2014and this man fixes it.To save his proteges from prison this fellow moves heaven and earth to hinder the, course of justice.Despite the fact that pickpockets constitute a public menace, he will sée to it that complainants do not appear to press their charges.Why?Because this smart fixer pays the complainants and, if necessary, the witnesses more than the pickpocket has stolen not to appear.The Fixer fixes it.So the merry game of picking the pockets of Montreal's citizens goes on .The citizen loses his \u201croll\u201d but a lawyer gets his fees and the pickpoc- 28rd.1932 BRAMSON- SAFE FROM POLICE INTERFERENCE Director of Public Safety ordered Police Chief to Drop Actions Pending and to make no Further Cases.There is urgent need for an investigation into the peculiar methods employed by Bramsons, taxicab operators of this city.When such an investigation is held, if it be a complete investigation, it will QUEBEC CARS NEWEST POLICY Why not an Oath of Fealty to Czar Taschereau the Great?We understand that the Government at Ottawa contem- it's next session which will provide for the security of the Government on adverse votes in the Commons other than those on the matter of \u201cconfidence\u201d.This is something along the line of policy which we understand our Provincial Premier Taschereau, is considering, except that the go high, and someone very lofty in civic affairs will find his actions extremely difficult to explain, We believe that Bramsons are operating directly against public in.! terest, in that they are attempting to kill competition by stifling the business of their competitors, thereby to create a taxicab monopoly and control the market in Montreal for their service; and in that they have acquired the services of the \u201cMysterious Power\u201d to further their ends, thereby securing privileges not extended to competitive operators, and in the operation of these privileges flagrantly overlook city by-laws, rules and regulations.Bramsons\u2019 Mysterious Power at the City Hall is a very strong power.By the use of this power Bramsons have cut into the business of competing taxicab operators by unusual methods, in an effort to corner and corral the taxi business of Montreal.But the taxicab business of Montreal in the hands of Bramsons will bode ill for the public of this city.THE MYSTERIOUS POWER.Bramsons use of \u2018pull\u201d at the City Hall hag rendered the police of the city helpless against this Monopoly builder.Forbidden to touch Bramsons cars, no matter how wild they run on the streets, what can our Police Force do but let them go?To make a case against Bramsons is as much as a patrolman\u2019s job is worth We quote below a letter under date of August 8th, 1921, written to the Chief of Police by Colonel Gaudet, at that time, Director of Public Safety.\u201c ORDERS FROM COLONEL - GAUDET.No new actions to be taken re automobiles stand under by-law No 691, until further orders.The two cases against Bramsons, re automobiles stand, now pending, to be allowed to go in default.\u201d Fine business.Police officers of this city bring cases against a taxicab company for breaking city bylaws, They are then told by a high civic official that they must drop the cases against these people and must on no account make any more.This places the Bramsons\u2019 concern above the law.And this is what we pay our civic servants for! Colonel Gaudet was not and is not The Mysterious Power behind Bramson: Colonel Gaudet was taking his orders from the Man Higher Up, and it is just possible that Colonel Gaudet left the city\u2019s service because he could not stomach such a job.This whole affair of Bramsons must be cleaned up, and Bramsons Taxis made to conform to alf existing laws and by-laws, just as other owners of public vehicles must.Laws are for the rich as well as the poor, and this mammoth taxi enterprise must not be permitted to place itself above laws which it\u2019s poorer competitors must observe or go out of business.We commend the affair of Bramsons to the attention of Mr.Jules Crépeau, Director of Public Servicesket gets away with the job.If this fixer had political aspira- | legislation.Federal bill will not go so far as will the proposed provincial The idea in Quebec will probably take the form of a bill to ban all members from sitting in the chamber until they have sworn eternal vows of fealty to Taschereau- Perron-Lanctot policies.The oath of office will read somewhat as follows: I, John Doe, duly elected to represent the citizens of \u2026.if the Provincial Parliament, do hereby swear that I will never, so long as I may live, think, say or act in any way displeasing to Czar Taschereau the Great; nor will I think, say, or act i nany way displeasing to his Chamberlain, Prince Charles Lanctot.I undertake to say only those things which Taschereau may tell me to say, do only what Taschereau may tell me to do, and I will never think, say or act in any manner except for the Everlasting Greatness of Czar Taschereau the Great and the Royal Chamberlain, Prince Charles Lanctot.' 4 I will forget that I am a Man, supposed to serve the people, and being a puppet will serve only Taschereau, so help me, Perron! And I have signed (with Taschereau\u2019s permission.) The time for legislation of this nature is undoubtedly ripe.QUOTATION OF THE WEEK \u201cWe are creatures of the Press.We cannot help it.It controls all our sources cf information, It can feed us with any facts it chcoses and deprive us of any facts it choo- \u2018ses.It can make us dance to any tune it selects, exalt any man who knows how to square it, destroy any man who would scorn to be its creature.- \u201cThis enormous power implies an enormous responsibility.The task of the Press is to * be the guardian of the interests of the public.Its supreme duty is to preserve its independence and to place itself under no obligation fo those who control public affairs and who have a dirert interest in influencing the Press.: \u201cIt matters a great deal to all of us whether the sources \u2018of the opinion and news upon which we have to found our judgment of public affairs are controlled by men who want \u2018honours\u2019 from Governments, - or by men who want nothing which will compromise their independence or their duty to the public.\u201d A.G.Gardiner.tions he might go far.Perhaps he has.|: 1 Lee / * Lo plates bringing down a bill at .EAR FRET T7 = "]