The Axe, 11 août 1922, vendredi 11 août 1922

[" st Len 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\" Ne.31 MONTREAL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11h, 1933 Annual subscription Two dollars.Price: 5 conte.THE MORALS OF MONTREAL HHO MURDERED BLANCHE CARNEAU Taschereau Government must give facts to the public.Who killed Blanche Garneau?The inability or unwillingness of Provincial Politicians and Departments to prosecute this case to the very bottom constitutes one of the gravest political scandals of a regime in which political scandals have become the rule rather than the exception.We venture to say that had the Blanche Garneau case had for its venue any other locality than the Province of Quebec under its present Government, the fog would have been lifted long ago.Mr.Taschereau has vainly attempted to banish the Blanche Garneau case into the motheaten cupboards of Government record.He has tried to close it forever by the pro- (continued on page 4) FIRST BLOOD FOR THE RAILWAYMEN! The Railwaymen of Canada have won a distinct victory in securing from the Federal Government an expression of opinion to the effect that wages should not be reduced until a conciliation Board has met and so declared.The Railway Companies choose to regard this statement by the Government as not being binding upon them.But how differently they would have talked had it been the other way about and the Government had come out for the Companies\u2019 point of view.Then the Railway Companies would have had reams of propaganda in their hireling press charging the men with disloyalty to the State because they would not accept the Government's opinion and govern themselves accordingly.It makes a difference \u2018\u201c\u2018whose ox is gored,\u201d doesn't it?Well, this is first blood to the workers and more power to them.It is a criminal shame to reduce men\u2019s wages just now.There is no justification for any reduction.There is no real reduction in the cost of living, not that we have been able to notice, anyhow.The Money Batons.(perhaps we should say, Barrens, for they seem barren of human sympathy and understanding) should begin at the other end of things and reduce the cost of living first and wages after all, if at all, A LARGER AXE Next week, or the week after, THE AXE will go to double its present size.Instead of four pages it will carry eight.From eight pages it will grow again, for it is our earnest wish to give the public as much for their nickel as production costs will stand, THE AXE is going to be the biggest thing in weekly journalism that this continent has ever known.To-day we are only building our foundations.THE AXE is, and always will be, \u201cThe Peoples\u2019 Paper\u201d.It was not started to serve any interest other than that of the People who must work; to stamp on exploitation, c.ookedness and corruption.It will always live for that purpose, and that purpose only.Let the Wall Street crooks find suckers in the United States; Canadians should refuse to get robbed of their money for the benefit of American sharps and sharks.Commission makes its own Scotch Whisky ?x % % Why does not the said Commission deal with the local agents of certain Scotch distillers?#one Is it a case of commission?.oa Is it true that the Deputy Attorney General has taken acion against a big manufac- $40,000 \u201cfor professional services rendered\u201d?% Æ x What do charitable organisations want to do with the real?given?« # # phi ate\u201d unabated?Does the Quebec Liquor| turing concern for the sum of $400,000 they talk about raising from the public of Mont- What proportion of this huge sum.will be spent on salaries and administration and how much will actually go to the poor for whom it may be Why do not these organisations strike at the causes of poverty and distress instead of landering with ameliorative schemes, that provide fat jobs for \u201csocial workers\u201d \u2018but lcave the evils they \u201cinvestig- JS MONTREAL À CORRUPT CTY Some Sidelights on the City\u2019s Dark Spots\u2014Big \u2018S\u2019 Society.Is Montreal an immoral city?We remember years ago defending Montreal from a charge made by an English clergyman passing through Montreal to the effect that Montreal was the wickedest city in the world.The comment of the editor of THE AXE at that time was that the clergyman critic did not know many cities, and certainly did not know T0 OUR READERS If you are suffering any injustice; If you have a story to tell that the public would be interested in; If you have anything to drag into the light of day; If you know anything worth telling; If you want to ventilate any grievance, And if you have \u201cthe goods\u201d\u2014Let us hear from you! Main 7934 is the number ; 20 St.James St.the ad- dress.London, and the night life of Which is the local Cafeteria that has been in trouble over paying a discharged employe the wages due instead of notice?¥* x % What was the scandal in connection with one of the Montreal Government Liquor Stores recently?A HX Does the Liquor Commission think it has solved the problem of diminishing stock by discharging two employes against whom nothing was charged and no proof made?#* + 4 Who were the two ladies who had a fight outside an uptown furrier\u2019s store one recent night?,Ç Was the fight about a certain racing-man ?: dk 4% #Æ- Does the famoug international detective change his lady pals so often as \u201cappears ?» Has he tired of the young lady from France?: # * Who is the \u2018bobbed-haired beauty who is the talk of Murray Bay?.Who is the contractor who beat up an employe because the latter asked for a receipt for monies paid over te the boss?London, else he would never say Montreal was the wickedest city in the world.And we think the same holds true today.There is undoubtedly a lot of immorality in Montreal.Much of it is out in the open; more probably is underground.(continued on page 3) What The Man In The Street Wants To Know | What made the said contractor.so reckless?- #% & Who was the boss in the Angus Shops wbo discharged a Canadian a week ago to find a job for an immigrant?+ + * , Is it right and Canadian to turn our fellow-citizens off to starve in order to employ newcomers?moa + Does the C, P.R.think it can secure the support of thinking people for immigration schemes if immigrants are going to be used to displace Canadians and, incidentally, reduce wages?3.Who killed Blanche Garnea * > #4 %X Has the Alderman\u2019s lady friend moved away from Crescent Street?¥ od ¥ Or has he acquired still another \u201csweetie\u201d in another part of town?x wo Did the young St.Catherine Street merchant enjoy his trip to Quebec?* kK = And why did he come home alone?+ (continued on page 3) MN INTERVEN WITH PEON Being number two of our \u201cImaginary Series\u201d We were somewhat astounded at the magnificent appointments of the Montreal Office of the Minister of Roads, Of approximately the same dimensions as the cars of the Montreal Tramways Company it\u2019s fittings in no way suggested the ordinary commercial tramcar, except for the Pay As You Enter box at the door.The motif of the room was more that of some Oriental Harem, the only occidental trappings being several large casks bearing the label of the Quebec Liquor Commission, At one end of the Chamber, on a raised platform, which we sat an imposing figure clad in (continued on page 4) \u201cSATURDAY NIGHT\u201d AND THE STRKERS A Toronto contemporary which takes it\u2019s name from the Queen City\u2019s bath night, came out very hot, in it's last issue against the action of the Uni s in the present labor troubles across the border.Ranting at labor for its present atti\u2018tde, it scored and scathed labor leaders in the United States for seeking to place the unions \u2018\u201c\u2018above the law\u201d.When Saturday Night raves about Labor placing itself \u201cAbove the Law\u201d it forgets all about the United States Labor Board and the attitude which the Railway Operators have taken.in the past to the rulings and decisions which that board has handed down.Prior to the present railway strike the Railway Companies almost ignored the Labor Board.At any rate they only accepted such rulings as were favorable to themselves.When the strike came along, however, they wanted the Board to them igainst the men.The fact that their employers insisted on being \u201cAbove the Law\u201d was largely responsible for the present Railway Strike In the case of the Miners on which subject Saturday Night rants at length, we advise our contemporary to rub up on it\u2019s facts, judged to be made of cement, do all manner of things for ! pr pe Page 2 ° Why ! Publish The Axe At the moment of writing I am at the printer's awaiting the printing of THE AXE of date, August 4th.Machinery is whirring; newsboys outside are raising the dust, people around me are talking, but I'm far away.Two or three hours later I have to appear in Court to face the second libel charge brought against me by Logan and Bryan.Then, \u201cif I have the dough,\u201d as the boys say, | want to hie myself for the week-end off to a little spot on the Lower St.Lawrence where one is \u201cfar from the madding crowd,\u201d the salt water bathing fine and, they tell me, the sunsets exquisite.My wife and little girl (getting a big one now) spent holidays there during my absence in Australia and they are there now.Its what my folks have told me about the sunsets that particularly pulls me to this beauty spot.I have always loved sunsets.There is nothing morbid about me and the fact that day is dying in the West carries no significance to me, for with me life is continuous, never-ending, and there is no such thing as death.It is the sheer beauty of a sunset that grips and holds me and I'd walk a score of miles to see one.And the (ne thought above all others that comes to me us Î gaze at a sunset with its golden fire and splashes of red flame, transfiguring cloud and sky, is that no human painter could ever reproduce the picture that the Master Painter has limned in the heavens, One of the most wonderful sunsets I have seen was from St, James\u2019 Park, London, when it seemed ag if the smoke and grime of the city of seven millions souls was transmuted into a living lake of fire of unsurpassable beauty.I remember another upon which I looked from Land's End, that farthest West bit of Old England that juts out into the broad Atlantic Ocean at the end of the county of Cornwall.And there comes another memory of one that I saw from a C.P.R.train when returning from the City of Quebec one winter\u2019s day a many moons ago.The snow clad Laurentians were bathed in a flood of wondrous color illumined in a golden light that made our somewhat prosaic Quebec a temporary fairyland.Yet one more such memory crowds on me.I stood on the bridge at Melbourne, Australia, that spans the river there at the beginning of the St, Kilda Road, one of the most delightful roadways in the world, I think, at any rate in my world.The river just there is narrow, muddy, and unpoetic.The masts and funnels of ships from every port in the world capped the wharves and river banks.High office buildings and factories crowded the sky line.Here and there lights began to appear in these places of toil and competitive strife.And the sun was a red ball of living fire; the sky a sea of flame; and the whole picture reflected in the slow moving river that passed underneath my feet, on to Port Philip Bay and the wide Pacific.The combination of Nature and the work of Man, merged by a divine alchemist and transformed into a perfect vision of the wonderland of God, wag something unforgettable and, humanly speaking, beyond reproduction.These are but memories.But there are plenty more sunsets in the storehouse of Nature.If my work in THE AXE can help to bring beauteous sunsets nearer to many lives that are drab and grey, increase appreciation in my fellows for the beautiful and true, and hedge the everyday struggle with touches of the color and tone, yes, and the music of sunsets, the work will have been worth doing.JOHN H.ROBERTS.* Date .cc coor soe Sens seer sone v00e Send Your Subscrintion TO THE PUBLISHER, \u201cTHE AXE\", 20 St.James Street, \\ Montreal, P.Q.Please send me a copy of \u201cTHE AXE\u201d every week for one year, \u2018 Leginning with the next issue after date.I enclose Two Dollars in payment.- (Signed) Name.sous S000 creer GSE Sees vost 000 6000 6850 FEE $00 0060 4000 epot Street .cc wee vers vero or0e vere sone feos eres sens one 000 000 City or Town .cue sees Province.S060 $000 vose Ctos vob0 S000 000 000s 009 0008 0006 4900 0004 United States and abroad, $2.50 per year.All cheques payable at par, Montreal, 000 9000 S500 0080 ONO S508 0000 S000 0000 THE AXE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11th, 1922 C.P.R.CHARGING ROBBERY PRICES FOR COMMODITIES Railway News Depart ment Adds Almost Hundred Per Cent to Retail Price of Cigarettes.One of the most highbinding pices of petty brigandery we ave run across lately is being | operated by that most respecta le payer of dividends, the Canadian Pacific Railway.; Small wonder that the C.P, Rils à financial success, when lit can sell commodities to its travellers at almost a hundred | per cent increase over the standard retail price.You may judge the story for yourself.Coming by train to Montreal two weeks ago, a traveller wanted a package of Player's Cigarettes.He called packet of Player's, brought to him.\u201cHow much?\u201d he asked.\u201cSixty cents.\u201d replied the newsboy.voiced such an opinion.sixty cents ag it's price for twenty Players.EXCESS PROFITS.Think of it! The retail price of the same article is thirty five cents at all tobacconists.Out of that thirty five cents the retailer must make his profit.But the C.P.R.evidently | cannot be content with the ordinary profits of legitimate business.So on top of the | ordinary retail price of thirty | five cents they stick another ; quarter.Nearly an additional hundred per cent.And this is the \u201cgreat institution\u201d we Ca- !nadians are taught to revere! | If Mr.Beatty has any ex- i planation to make, the public 1 will be glad to get it.\u201cHURLERS OF THE POISONED SHAFT\u201d À Form of Malicious Slander to which an - End should be made.Abuses of the immunity which is given to Members on || the floor of Parliament and t lawyers pleading in the Courts, often gives rise to criticism of the system = under which no suit can be taken in cases where deliberate slanders are voiced under the protection of parliament or courts Here in Quebec we had a crying example of the injustices which can be done in parliament to innocent citizens in the case of Premier Tasche- |Teau and the Blanche Garneau -case.Two men had been tried for the murder of this unfor- tunate girl, and they had been) OUR POLITICAL PLATFORM : HOME RULE FOR MONTREAL.A declared innocent in the Courts.But it was Premier Taschereau\u2019s desire to name a victim for the murder, to vindicate the premier with the public.When the two men were freed in Court, our Attorney General on the floor of the Provincial House publicly labelled them Guilty.And the two citizens so slandered had utterly no recourse against Quebec's bogus premier.There have been other and similar instances in Parliament, and, although the Bar is in the main occupied by gentlemen who would not consider stooping to such foul practices occasionally some parasite who chances to be a lawyer makes use of his immunity to deliberately utter slanders which he could have no hope of proving if made out of court.In this respect, we quote the Editor of Joh Bull who says: It is not only in the Houses the employee of the Railway of Parliament that this despicable Company whose job it is tolpractice is allowed to continue.It supply the public with drinks,|is carried on in the Courts of Jussmokes and reading matter.tice by Counsel, who are privileged The traveller asked for a large|to make suggestions of a most It was|damning nature about any person who happen to be a party to or a witness in an action.We say quite frankly that there .is no justice in such proceedings.Thinking that the newsboy|No man or woman, whether in the must be operating a gentle/Houses of Parliament or in the graft on the side, the traveller {Law Courts, should .be provided But|with an_invulnerable shield from the boy promptly showed him behind which poisoned darts may the official stamp of the C.P.|be thrown without danger to the R.News Department, which|thrower.It may please those who proclaimed to the world that like a one-sided game, but it isn\u2019t the Canadian Pacific figured cricket.We are in complete accord with our English contemporary in calling for some change which will protect the honour of innocent citizens from this particular form of malicioug slander.UINWED MOTHERS SAVE PEOPLE CASA Toronto the Good Rejoices at new Tax-saving Stunt.Un in Toronto the Good they are priding themselves on the fact that the Unmarried Parents\u2019 Act which recently ibecesne law is saving the people money.The object of the act is to force fathers of children born out of wedlock to contribute to their support, but, if the tenor of a recent despatch can be taken as a criterion, the good folks in Ontario have been looking more to a saving in taxes rather than to helping unfortunate girls in their trouble.Recently Judge Mott condemned a father to pay four dollars a week to the support of a child.What is four dollars to a woman left to face the world alone with a nameless child to rear and educate?What ig four dollars a week to a girl who has been betrayed and then cast aside by some foul brute of a man?In Toronto they seem to like it because it knocks four dollars a week off taxes! Faughl | - \u2014 a amy TASCHEREAU MUST NOT BE SENT TO FEDERAL HOUSE! One futile attempt at wearing Gouin\u2019s boots enough.Sir Lomer Gouin was once Premier of Quebec.He resigned and was succeeded by L.A.Taschereau, who became the first (and we hope the last) Czar of Quebec.Now there is talk of Gouin going to Washington as British Ambassador, and Taschereau's name is mentioned for the Ministerial post which Sir Lomer would vacate.Which idea is nauseating, Taschereau\u2019s administe ration has done enough harm in Quebec without us sending him on to Ottawa to make a mess of the rest of the Domineion.Taschereau, Minister of Justice! (Remember the Blanche Garneau Murder?) What a travesty on the very name of Justice! Czar Lucien Alexandre the Piker has had one try at filling Gouin's boots, and has made a hopeless mess of it.He must not be given any more opportunities to blunder.THE ANGUS SHOPS TAXATION SCANDAL Why should City Executive Committee make Excuses for the C.P.R.?Alderman Brodeur, Chairman, Executive Committee, City Hall, Brodeur :\u2014 We see that your closed corporation of bureaucratic nine compoops is still looking for a way to save the Canadian Pacific Railway some money on its taxes.A week ago your Executive Committee again asked the city council to sanction the assessment of the Angus Shops at a million dollars for five years ,attempting to temper this piece of political corruption, for there is no other name which can be applied to it, with a proviso that the C.P.R.shall\u2018guarantee to employ 2,500 men regularly therein during that time.Who are you to start making excuses for the C.P.R.?Are you their servant or ours?Who pays your salary, the City of Montreal, or the Canadian Pacific Railway?We know that the million dollar assessment scheme is a deliberate steal, for which the city\u2019s tax payers will have to foot the bill.That much is evident.on the face of it.But even if we were in total ignorance of the Angus Shops\u2019 true value, (which we are not) your committee\u2019s proviso for the regular employment of 2,500 men is in itself, sufficient to show being honestly assessed there would be no need for your committee to ask for -employment guarantees.You \u2018and your gang make us sick.THE AXE | The Axe is published by by The Axe Publishing Co., 20 St.James Street Montreal.it up.If Angus Shops were - | John H.Roberts and printed ; , : Xe, * \u2026 Public wives live mostly in ut- = circumference, - à , Some of the shining lights of Man \u201c : danthro + = dose] motive and high pres- THE NORHS OF MONTREAL Some Sidelights on the Dark Spots of Canada\u2019s Metropolis.(continued from pagg 1) The practical tolerance of so- THE AXE, FRIDAY, AUGUST lith.1932 TRAM COMPANY INVOKES LAW TO BREAK ITS STRIKE Strike breaking methods employed by the tram-car company in Buffalo N.Ywhere employees have been \u201cout\u201d for the past five weeks clal vice, that is of a Red Light | are worthy of comment.Ag is District which is winked at by our civic authorities is not only a scandal but makes Montreal appear morally much natural in the case of a traction strike, \u201cjitneys\u201d have been absorbing the greater part of worse than it actually is.The|the city crowds for transporta- existence of houses of ill fame, practically licensed by the city, for such a fine once or twice year amounts to, is a reproach to the city, an eyesore, à rock of offence.They should be rooted out, lock, stock, and barrel.Under the law they have no right to exist.And it is the duty of our administrators to enforce the law against houses of iH fame as much as against Chinese opium joints.\u201cEAST OF SUEZ\", But the immorality- found around the immediate East of St.Lawrence Boulevard, say between Ontario East and Craig Street, is not the only ugly phase and perhaps not the most vicious form of immorality in Montreal.There is a developement of recent years which has been described in these columns before as \u201cThe Apartment House Menace.\u201d There are hundreds of men .~ Who keep their \u201cprivate wives\u201d in apartments.Maintained in comparative affluence, these women are in the main just as truly sisters of the pavement as the girls that walk the streets looking for their prey.With some of them, love has been the only impelling motive.We refrain from condemnation of such; we are not their judges.In fact we adopt that attitude to the whole of them; it is not ours to condemn; we are merely reviewing facts, With others, it is the money ; the life of ease; the good times; the freedom from worry.You cin tell these paor sisters of ours by their hard faces.They live in a hard world and they have found a virtuous life no bed of roses.They have sold themselves to some fellow, they take their price; and they exact their toll.ls it any wonder their faces are hard ?= \u2019 WHY NOT HAREMS?As to the men who keep them, some of them are roués and keep more than one.Othera of them are faithfui to their one woman though their friendship be illicit.Many of these women \u2018and girls are \u201ckept\u201d by married men, whose ter unsuspicion of the other woman's existence.Occasionally the lines cross and then there is the Devil to pay.We know of some men who keep and maintain two or three establishments of this kind.It is almost a pity for .such that our laws do not permit men to ; - keep harems or that Mormonism is prohibited! It would -&urprise Montreal, nay, it would shock it from centre to > if the whole .truth could be published about Commerce, Society, and Phi- .Men who head great institutions, others who rank high in Society with a big B, sor.e who are at the head of clubs and organisations with a > êtige, are to be found amongst fo tion from and to residential districts.The street car company has gone to court asking that a writ of mandamus be given to forbid the mayor of Buffalo the right to grant permits for busses to operate on the city streets while the street railway strike is on.The tramway operators figure that if there are no jitney busses the strike must collapse as the public will not go without traction, no matter how sympathetic to the strike people may be.So, in order to break the strike without giving in to or treating with their employees, the company asks Law to stand behind it and break it's strike.Again we have an example of the clean sporteman- ship of our bigger corporations.the k'epers of \u201cprivate wives.\u201d And then there is that other phase of it, the unlicensed li- bertinism of + High Society, about which we had much to say in a recent article under the caption, \u201cIs Montreal Society rotten?\u2019 We make no bones about saying that the morals of Montreal are very low, indeed, if they are to be judged only by the conduct of this segment of Montreal's life.What can you expect?They do no healthy work, these people; they eat gross foods and drink rich wines and fiery spirits; women as much addicted to cocktails as men.They are almost the sole patrons of erotic literature; the women\u2019s dress comes as near to indecency as they can decently get, and their whole outlook on life is to get the good time that their unearned money can buy for them, whatever the cost, and careless of the ultimate penalties that Nature will exact.Bah! It sickens us to write of the idle rich and their vices.But the real Montreal, the Montreal of the common people, is good and wholesome.Nine tenths of our folks are just ordinary, decent-minded, clean living people.They do, their day\u2019s work.live their pro.| saic home life, enjoy the simple pleasures and friendships, share each other\u2019s joys and sorrows, have their little tra- gedieg and comedies, practice their religion, build a family life, and enrich the city of which they are citizens.It is the other tenth that get the morals of Montreal in dutch; that give Montreal a bad name.At heart Montreal is morally sound.But vice is attractive; immorality is profitable for those who pander to it, and wickedness is \u201cnews\u201d.Hence we hear more about the sordid than of the sweet and _ wholesome, Montreal is a City of Churches and a City of Homes.In its home life it is morally sound; in the life that is not home life it might and it shall be better.5 - WHAT THE MAN IN THE STREET WANTS TO KNOW, (continued from page 1) Does the jeweller know that his \u201c friend\u201d is often kept late by her boss?nook a about the jeweller?xR Who secured a license in Hull for the young Austrian from the Chateau dining room?* WK ® Why does the Commission turn down applications from respectable Canadiang give licenses to citizens of alien countries?\"Mom Why did an Ottawa veterinary surgeon get the job as manager of the Liquor Commission\u2019s new store across the river?\u201c x Xx Is it because Simard\u2019s new policy calls for the dilution of whisky with horse liniment?¥ = de Or will the Commission sell the liniment straight under the whisky label?x x Ww If the directors of Canadian Chartered Banks had personal loans of more than eight and a half millions outatand- ing in April what do they owe to-day?JUST A QUERY FOR WR.QUER An open letter to a poli tical Hack.Mr.Charles Query, Political Hack.Sir:\u2014 And does the boss know eulture, has \u201clot the cat out of the and befoosle the farmers.= QUEBEC MINISTER FALSE GRAN ~~ HASLETTHECAT | REPORTS MADE DUT OF THE BAG english Press Incesed Mr.Caron, the Minister of Agri- over \u2018Cabled Market ro, has \u201clot the eat out of tne\u2019 AAVices\u201d forwarded by Speculating Housesbag\u2019 with a vengeance.Labelle! County is an agricultural county.There is a bye-election procesding there just now.The Government don, England, accordi t is shaking in its shoes for fear it press report, takes \"exception may lose that county and with it fo the manner in which Canamuch prestige.So Mr.Caron was, dian crop reports have been sent into the county to placate and | circulated in Great Britain.And this The Post states that wheres authentic reports on our Cahow he did it: Montreal and its nadian crops are sent through ustries, he told the electors of the mails, \u201ccables sent by ir- Labelle County at.three different responsible persons obtain a meetings last Sunday, are being fortnight\u2019s precedence and taxed for the benefit of the rural gravely mislead the market.t year enormous errors districts of the Prvince.The en- totalling four and one half tire rural portion of the Province.million quarters of wheat Mr.Caron assured them, contri- were involved.\u201d buted only $800,000 to the Provin- Grain, as the public well cial Treasury, against $11,200,000 knows, forms one of the prin.Furthermore, he\u2019 Ciple media of speculation.On from the cities.PS : dus, fo trey hth LLL ETL Brchares un farmers pay into the Provincial hands daily.Grain prices are coffers, they receive $1,000,000 run .p and down by manipu- back for good roads, agriculture, lators and so-called \u201cgrain oo brokers\u201d who are nothin ti nd tice: g colonization, education and justice: more or less than hucketeers.THE SACRED COWS.These operate largely by faise Now, who are we to believe, \u201c1NI&rmation sen.Ludi ua ter , the enige of revorts n= ~avvet Tacshereau or Caron?The Pre- conditions and crop prospects.mier made a lengthy and tiresome This is a game which 24 speech in the Legislative Chamber bees ,.,.+o death on the last session to prove that Montreal North Amer ican continent, was undertaxed rather than over.though it still flourishes.Evitaxed.and that other parts of the! dently the same game is being ; , an P | played by American and Carovince paid much higher taxes nadian grain speculntion into the Provincial Treasury than, houses between here and En- Montreal did.General Smart de-, gland Relying on respe:table .exteriors, excellen inancia lished his figure | .\u2019 : Now along comes one of Mr Tas-! [a\u2018ings and other sucn bun- chereau\u2019s own Cabinet Ministers,! um tending to give a gullible ! », public confidence in their re- that bunch of \u201csacred literature, The Morning Post of Lonpiecemeal cows\u201d who ports and market browse and fatten on the finest these people inflate and deflate pastures of the Province of Que-| markets almost at will and bec, and gives the lie direct to his\u2018 almost invariably leave the » and gives the lie direc \"public firmly holding the chief.One of these two men is empty sack.You appear to be very active in the Labelle County bye-election, We presume that you must get well paid for your oratorical services ; otherwise you would hardly be able| to spend so much time on the stump, for the Taschereau Government as you do.Don\u2019t you think it ill becomes you to berate Mr.Arthur | Sauvé, Leader of the Opposition, | for taking the salary which is al-i lowed him under the law seeing] that you are not among the great unpaid yourself.We do, and so does every right thinking man who lmmows of and about you and your peripatetic peregrinations in the, interest of polities and Charles Query.i ; \u2018Had you forgotten that the late: leader you profess so glibly to re-.vere, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, took his' salary as Leader of His Majesty's: Opposition?Perhaps you did not know this.Would you have CT He tried to mislead lying.Which one?Whichever one: In this case the Grain Buckit is, is not fit to remain either a eteers relying on the fact | Cabinet Minister or a member of that It takes almost two weeks .\u201cfor authentic grain revorts to the Provincial Legislature and travel from the Canadian West should get out and that quickly.to England, are gnite svident.We believe the truth is with Mr.ly rigging the markets un the Caron.Either that, or the Govern-.Other side of the Atlautic for ment hag one line of \u201cdope\u201d (that's their own benefit and the the right word) far the cities and public loss.; another for the farmers, This particular subject of grain speculation is one which TASCHEREAU: MISLEADER.we have investigated very Taschereau is not fit to govern\u2019 thoroughly.We know whereof this Province of Quebec.His pub- We speak.lic utterances are not reliable.We \u2014_\u2014 cannot believe what he says.He, A DUN is not the leader of the Province, he is the misleader.He tried = HOUSING IN VER mislead the public over the Blanche.; Garneau murder when, in the im- \u201cMayor Leclair, of Verdun, asked munity of the Chamber, he brand.that a by-law regarding the utiliza- ed the two men who had been de- tion of $400.00 for the purpose clared innocent as the guilty ones.lof erecting houses in Verdun be e public put to practical use, and his request pected Bir Wilfrid to refrain from iwhen he said that Montreal was not wag granted.It is the intention of opposing the policies of the Gov- | ernment because he received a salary from the country?If net,\u2019 why expect Sauvé to sell HIS seu)\u2019 eadership, for a salary?; 1 And while referring to Sir Wilfrid Laurier, we notice that you! are using his great name and fame as an argument for the election of: the Liberal candidate in Labelle! County.You know, if you have\u2018 any sense at all, which we begin\u2019 to geriously doubt, that the election ! in® Labelle is of a member of the Provincial Legislature and that Federa] issues, and especially dead Federal issues, have nothing to do with the case.If you kept your mouth shut, nobody would know how ignorant of real politics you are, Mr.Charles Query.=\" gE At - over-taxed for the benefit of the the mayor to use part of this sum rest of the Province.The public immediatly.- is tired of him, tired of his misfit! From the Montreal \u201cHerald\u201d, ] tired of his Czarism, August 9th.tired of his puling ways, tired of, the incompetence and inefficiency Book Æ of his administration, and sick un-| We should like to know how to death of the very name of Tas- many houses Mr.Leclair hopes to chereau.Mr.Caron has blurted erect with the \u201cpart\u201d of the four out the truth.The cat is out of hundred he hopes to use imme- the bag.The tiresome, tedious, diately.It sounds like the mille.tyrannical Taschereau had better nium.get out before he is kicked out.\u2014 OUR POLITICAL The ~patrioti ice fm : with money oan render to cheir|] * LATFORM : country a to use that money for TURN THE the d ment of thei country and the worst to use it Tor|| RASCALS .the advancement ef a foreign coun.OUT.Co | Le ty.- he \u2014 2 Page 4 \u2014__- WHO MURDERED BLANCHE GARNEAU?Taschereau Government must give facts to the public.(continued from page 1) cess of branding men of proven! In th innocence as murderers of the! , foulest kind.And he has fail-; ed, He has failed for the simple reason that the people ot Quebec Province in hig attempts at explanation realise that! THE AXE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11th.1922 OUR POLITICAL PLATFORM : DOWN WITH | THE LIQUOR \u2018| COMMISSION ! \"THE AXE BUSILY ' ing medium its going to make.Which, by the way, is why e summertime most city | papers experience a fall in circulation.Not s0 THE AXE., When the people began get ting away to the country in he merely follows the customa-! July there was a slight drop in ry Taschereauvian alibi, alibi.alibi.\u201cJustice\u201d; deprived of its victim demands an alibi, and our Premier has become our principal maker of | alibis.But it will not do.There have been many ru-! mors as to the identity of the.murderer and his \u2018\u2019\u2018accessor-j ies,\u201d Influential newspapers have cast veiled hints which to, those in the know point certain persons not lowly placed in Quebec Province.But the Government instead of prosecuting its search for the killer, instead of following every, scent and trail which might lead to, the culprit, deliberate-: ly lies down on the job and; sends Alibi \u2018I'aschereau to pull; them out of the scrape.| The only inference that can: be drawn from the evident! non-pursuit of the Garneau: case by the Government is that the Government has no desire! to pursue it, that they wish itl to lie dead, in the hope that the! public will forget it before; l until last week, policy of! circulation.With the arvest of che editor by Logan and Bryan on charges of libel there was an upward jump, which was maintained was another leap frrw ri.Last week's when there number must have been \u201cthe goods\u201d all right for we had to print no less than three extra editions to meet the demand and at this writing THE AXE is still selling merrily.Well, we're glad of it.If you believe it-its so! Many people have been kind enough to say they like these little preachments that appear in THE AXE from time to time, mostly suggested by play, We're trying to give the peo ple a real paper.We are not aiming to please everybody but to please ourselves first and we're darned hard to please, THE AXE is different from any other paper published in Montreal.The people like it.It is read from the first line to the last.What n wonderful advertis- \u2014\u2014\u2014e we are writing this little boost for ourselves.Shortly we shall enlarge the paper to at least eight pages, possibly more.Then we can take ads.If you have anything worth while to advertise, something that we can guarantee to our readers as being O.K., for we shall stand behind everything and everybody we advertise, let us hear from you.You'll hear from our readers afterwards if you accept the hospitality of our columns for your ad.Ring us up at Main 7934.If an American brokerage house has an office in Canada, its one purpose is to attract Canadian dollars across -the boundary line into American bank accounts; they don't leave the money in Canada.ADVICE T0 INVESTORS \u201cAsk THE AXE.Prevention is better than Cure.\u201d We are receiving so many re quests for information and advice regarding stocks and shares that we shai] open a new department in which we shall deal with these questions, Readers are welcome to our advice and help and are asked to inform us of ways in which they have been tricked by the thimble- riggers of the Stock Exchanges or rescally company promoters who fatten and batten on innocent people seeking investments.Where possible we shall get restitution for \u2018he victims of these sharks.OUR POLITICAL PLATFORM : WE WANT A FIVE CENT CAR FARE.eme tan mame i © = en A.tre ir | all true women do believe in us men, and somehow or| | other, the man she believes: j him to be he becomes.It may be a long, agonising process they are again called upon to| and moving picture titles and; for the woman but her faith .; t .condone or condemn the regime; themes.Time was when I did! communicates itself to of Taschereau and Co.at the: polls.And if we of THE AXE: have anything to do with it that is not going to happen.The responsibility of the Goverment is to the people and not to individuals.But the Taschereau Government has vouchsafed the public no information on one of the foulest crimes ever committed in the Province, and it expects the electors of the Province who foot the bills of Government, including the support of the Provincial Detective Force and the salaries of Taschereau and all his satellites, ; to sit back and accept every: malicious slander he and they, may utter under the immunity of the House, in lieu of faithful service to the good of the people whom they are elected to serve.MUST GET OUT.It will not do.Taschereau must prosecute the Garneau case to its root or he must give the electorate of the Province of Quebec his reasons for not doing so, If Mr.Taschereau is unable to give the people of Quebec the faithful, competent service for which they are footing the bills, then he must get out and let some one take his place who will do so.The Blanche Garneau case is a public issue.The public has a right to the facts and it must have them.If The Gang down the river is afraid to face the music they had better leave the hall before the orchestra starts, THE AXES \u2019PHONE NUMBER, MAIN 7934 ADDRESS: 20 ST, JAMES ST.MONTREAL Fa not see the power and beauty and the possibilities of service that are inherent in the drama, spoken or silent.And then, in the great silences and loneliness of strange countries, I began to take stock of manÿ things, to readjust values, and to adopt fresh viewpoints revealed by past experiences at home and the newer circumstances of life in those distant lands.Amongst other things I found myself looking at the theatre from a different angle.Much of my previous association with the theatre had been in a censorial capacity.I adopted the attitude of seeing the best in the theatre and believing the best about it, and, while not wilfully biinding one's eyes to whatever might disfigure the stage and make of it a source of harm instead of \u201ca means of grace\u201d, I deliberately determined to believe in the theatre and its capacity for the service of humanity.its social utility, its power to uplift and ennoble, and its vital necessity to the life of the common people.And my experience has proved the truth of the dictum, \u201cIf you believe it, its so.\u201d I have been trying to believe the best about the theatre and the people of the stage, and the place and purpose of the drama in human life and to-day I realize their value and helpfulness as I never could have done had I not made up my mind to believe the best about the institution we know as the theatre.A WOMAN'S FAITH.Its true in almost every department of life.Let a woman believe in a man, believe in him with a whole-hearted trust and that complete absorbing faith with which | him and he comes to believe in himself because somebody believes in him, If a woman believes it about her man, its so, especially if what she believes is the best, for she'll see in him her ideal and the man he might be and her very faith will create in him the condi-! tions that will enable him to realise her dreams for him.\u201cIf vou believe it, it so.\u201d \u201cGIVE A DOG A BAD NAME\u201d.It works out also in other ways not so promising.For instance, we've known gossip repeated about a woman until it became scandal and the woman learning of it became the thing that people believed her to be, driven to it by the idle and vicious tongues of her sisters.You know the old saying, \u201cGive a dog a bad name, etc\u201d.And plenty have suffered and walk in paths of shame because somebody, perhaps an entire community believe bad of us and without deliberate intent to make a mess of life we unconsciously begin to justify the belief in our badness.Thought has such power to communicate itself.Many a man has said, \u201cNobody believes in me and I'll not try to go straight\u201d.Anyone is pretty hopeless who gets - thinking that way.And the blame is not on him so much as on those who believe the worst about him for if you believe the worst about anybody too often its so.I could give many illustrations of this from my own et- periences in this city.I remember a crook who robbed and betrayed me years ago.He was sent to prison for eighteen months, not by my action.Although he had robbed and deceived me I secured him When he came out of jail he came straight te me and asked for help.I stood by him.At my request the Salvation Army ( hats eff to them! ) helped him and found him work.I later assisted him back to England.My last words to him were, \u201cI believe in you, Blank\u201d.Later I heard from: friends of how splendidly he, had made good and redeemed! the past.I believed in him, in spite of his crookedness and it was so.BELIEVE THE BEST.\u201cIf you believe it, its so\u201d I might go ôn giving many illustrations to prove it.I know its true because I've experienced it myself.Loved ones and personal friends have believed; in me in spite of slander, and] innuendoe and malicious suggestion, And even if a man wanted to be bad he couldn't be bad while those who know him best believe in him and surround him with the protecting care of their faith and love.Thomas Meighan will be at the Capitol Theatre in a new moving-picture next week The picture is named, \u201cIf you believe it, its so\u201d.That's what gave me the text for this preachment.Joseph Dowling, the greatly-loved \u2018Miracle Man\u2019 is one of the central figures: of the play (by the way, saw \u201cThe Miracle Man,\u201d in Melbourne Australia and again! in New York, and it was one of the factors helping to change my outlook on the stage).Go and see it.Let its message grip you.And when you have absorbed the spirit and inner significance of the play go out and live the doctrine it expounds.Believe the best of everybody especially of your own folk.And if you've got someone you love who is not living \u201cthe utmost for the highest\u201d never cease believing in them.Your faith will make them whole.Believe they are good at heart, and that the good will conquer the evil, and it will come true.\u201cIf you be- counsel and had him defended.a \u2014\u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 a \u2014 x AN INTERVIE WITH PERRON Being number two of our \u201cImaginary Series\u201d \u2014 (continued from page 1) the latest fashion.On the wall above him were two portraits each surrounded by a halo.These were labelled respectively E.A.Robert and Leonide.The somewhat impressive surroundings, so awe- inspiring to one of commoner stock, tended to rob us of our customary interviewing insoue ciance.LEONIDE HIMSELF.\u201cWell, what do you want\u201d boomed a deep bass voice.\u201cTo see Mr.Perron\u201d we replied in trembling falsetto.\u201cSpeak!\u201d replied the Voice.\u201cl am He\u201d \u201cTHE AXE\u2019 we began, but as the immense bulk at the desk reached into a drawer and brought an ugly looking revolver into sight we decided that this might not be quite the right line.\u201cProceed.\u201d again boomed the voice, It sounded like Big Bertha.We fully expected to see an eighteen inch shell pop out of his mouth and blow the place to atoms, or to Hell, one or the other.\u201cWe have called,\u201d we smiled, \u201cbecaus.we feel that as Our Leading Citizen you might like to give us an Interview.What for instances your attie tude to Liquor?\u201d ; , \u201cDown with All Liquor!\u201d he | salvoed, demonstrating his re.marl: by swallowing a quart of Vichy without pausing for breath.\u201cHave some yourself ! FOND OF DIVIDENDS.\u201cAnd about the Tramways,\u201d we continued, a bit desperately, it\u2019s true.\u201cDo you prefer a five cent fare to a ten per cent dividend?\u201d \u201cFool,\u201d he cried.\u201cDon\u2019t you know?What do / want with a five cent fare?I have my limousine! But dividends, ah.\u201d His eyes rolled.We could see this Superman warming up on a favorite topic.Smiling the while, he must have talked for at least ten minutes without a halt.He told us all about dividends.We gathered he believes in \u2019em, and, in fact prefers them infinitely to the five cent fare.\u201cDividends,\u201d he cried, in conclusion, \u201cwill save Quebec from Bolshevism! That is, if they're big enough.\u201d GOOD OLD CEMENT.\u201cAnd about Cement,\u201d we went on.\u201cWhat about Cement.What do you think of cement?\u201d \u201cWell,\u201d he replied, \u201cwhen you mention cement, you mention one of my favorite subjects again.Cement is great stuff.Great for roads.Great for dividends.Great for me.Me, I like it.Great thing for friendship too.Think of all the friendships that have been cemented, for instance, Ha !Ha !\u201d he roared, till the rafters rung, We thought the trolley would ~ come off, he laughed so heartily.\u201cHa! Ha! Ha! Let's cement '! ours! Have some Gov\u2019ment Vichy.He dragged out another bot- lieve it \u2014 its so.tle, but before he could pull the cork we were gone."]