The Victoria. £ i ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft BISECTOR * 9 Successor to THE BEACON FBB.-MAR. 1988 # PRICK lOc B. C. Penitentiary f **'****I**I* ♦*»*•* The Lim Jim Petitions KM'«»V«tV« The Police Mix-Up | *****•**♦****♦♦* ft Vance 6? Manson Blow-out ft ft ft ft ft •>*>»>♦>»>•> Russia Ready for War t **♦♦♦* Ando-Catholics & Rome? » >•**«£«•*«<£»»*« Rome Exploits Mexico WHITE PROTESTANTS OF Are Urged to Unite with an Aggressive Organization Which is Campaigning Against the Flooding of the Dominion of Canada with Alien Hordes If you are "Real," if your oath is sacred and inviolate, you may become a member of a most powerful Secret Order, whose aims are stated below. Mail this IieaJIet, wltli your full name and.address clearly written thereon to the Publicity Department at tlie indicated address. Western Region Headquarters: B^or all points West of Ontario-Manitoba Border P.O. Box 387, Vancouver, B. C. 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The BISECTOR Vol. iv No. 2 Feb, Mar. 1928 THE LIM JIM PETITION Klan Leader Secures Copy of Much Discussed Document By A. J. ENGLAND In the January issue an article dealing with the "Lim Jim" Petition was printed, but the public demand for copies was greater than the supply. The Legislature having taken cognizance of this glaring case, and public interest being stead'ily sustained, we here reprint part of the article, together with the Petition.—Ed. So complete has been the sense of shock to the general public in respect to the now famous "petition for leniency" that the writer considers it to be a public duty to submit the following comment, together with the petition and attached letters. The defendant was Lim Jim, the judge, Mr. Justice W. A. Macdonald, the petitioners, Vancouver business men. Throughout the Lower Mainland of British Columbia a great deal of curiosity has been aroused as to the identity of the persons whose "wonderfully worded" petition should have been so effective. Names have been mentioned about town of men whose abhorrence of the drug traffic could scarcely be questioned, and whose business and commercial standing would be such as to at least leave it open to belief that they might have been considered as people who could not be ignored—that is, of course, if there is any class or section of the people to whom such a phrase could rightly be applied, in respect to the processes of justice. If there were no other reason than to remove the imputation which such gossip would hang to the reputations of men quite innocent thereof, it is the opinion of the writer that the actual petition should be made public for this purpose. The "Vancouver Morning Star" speaking editorially in its issue of November 11th, 1927, in respect to the case and petition, said: ''It would serve a good purpose, if, in future, the names of those who are so ready to invoke clemency for men convicted of a despicable offence were made public." In hearty agreeent with the 'Star" in this particular, and in relation to any narcotic case, we are convinced that only the frankest publicity, coupled with well founded educational effort, will be effectual in rousing a usually somnolent public to the dread results of narcoticism. It was with this end in view that the writer commenced a series of articles dealing with narcoticism, and it is in hope that the general public will not alone be shocked, as it undoubtedly was, to read of petitions and leniency for dope peddlers, but that it will acquire also the urge of a crusade against the traffic itself. In the cross appeal of the Crown it is shown from evidence presented as to Lim Jim's activities that he was in a fair way of being one of the large operators in the traffic. In conversation with Lachenaur, the agent, he is alleged to have asked: "You have been to 232 Pender St.? You tried to buy 200 cans up there, and you seen the price he made you? Well, that shows I am the biggest dealer here. You could not buy 200 can3 from six of these Chinamen, you could not get 200 cans." ,» \ The following quotation lsjiaken from the judgment of the Court of Appeal as rendered by the Honourable Chief Justice, i3^ 3iafa T 11 E I! i seer O K j. age j-uree "The Petition is well described as 'wonderfully worded/ but we think The petitions follow: the learned judge was in error in receiving" it." The Honourable Mr. Justice W. A. MacDonald. Sir: — We, business men and citizens of Vancouver, have learned with surprise and regret that Lirn Jim, prominent Chinese Merchant, has been convicted of an offense of celling opium. We have known Lim Jim and, in many cases, have transacted business with him for over twenty years and we have long esteemed him for his many fine qualities; his unfailing courtesy, his public and private generosity, his probity, strict integrity and his kindly nature free from all malice. Knowing him as we do—and business relations are usually the keenest test of a man's true nature—we cannot conceive that in this man we have a Jekyil and Mr. Hyde. Knowing also, as we do, that his legitimate business interests are very substantial and extensive, we are forced to the conclusion that if Lim Jim actually engaged in such a nefarious action as selling opium, he did so without any intent whatever of wickedness or evil, but rather in much .the same spirit as one of us might visit a race track and indulge in casual betting. We believe that his character is entirely free from vicious taint and that, on the contrary he is a man of kindly and gentle disposition. As citizens we are interested in the suppression of the narcotic traffic and in the just punishment of those who break our laws. Mindful of these fac- ters, we desire to respectfully convey to your Lordship our considered opinion that our community would benefit more by granting to Lim Jim a suspended sentence [than by committing him to a term of imprisonment. Our reasons for this petition are as follows: To a man of Lim Jim's type of temperament, we believe that his present experience is one which has already completely brought home to him the folly, fool-hardiness and futility of t^e illicit ventures, and that the continued incarceration could have but one result—the complete ruin of his life which might otherwise be employed usefully and with benefit to the whole community. For many years we have taken Lim Jim's word and found it true and we believe him to be a man who would take pride in sincerely responding to any grave responsibility put upon him. We therefore desire to respectfully petition your Lordship that Lim Jim be sentenced not to prison but to use his influence with his countrymen againet the narcotic traffic and that he be charged to so act and speak throughout his life that his example may be followed by others in working towards the elimination of this evil. We are confident that to such a sacred trust Lim Jim is a man who would respond with his whole being. He is a prominent and influential man in the local Chinese Community and we believe that his example would very materially aid the anti-narcotic endeavor. And we desire to suggest that, if it be your Lordship's pleasure to consider favorably our opinion, then this memorial be handed to Lim Jim to be cherished by him and by his family as a token of the solemn trust imposed on him and as a symbol of British Equity and Justice. We have the honour to subscribe ourselves, Sir, TurnbU'H Brothers, Per M. Turnbull. Geo. L. Maclnnis, Solicitor, 413 Granville St. John Cou'thard, Director, Geo. S. Harrison & Co., Ltd. W. H. Manson & Co., Per W. H. Manson. Thos. Steele & Sons, Ltd. Tuckett Ltd., B. Stuart. V. W. Adams, Financial. Hunter & Davidson, A. M. Hunter. In addition to the foregoing, there were two letters attached to the petition, which are printed below: The Honourable Mr. Justice W. A. Macdonald, City Court House, Vancouver, B. C. Dear Sir: We have been asked to associate ourselves with a petition which is to be presented to you in respect to the conviction of Lim Jim at the recent Assizes for the sale of opium. We have known this man for a great many years and have done business with his father and the company with which he has been associated during all this time. Our relations throughout have been of the most satisfactory kind and we find it hard to believe that Lim Jim would be so foolish as to jeopardize his standing with the business community of this city by leaving himself open to any such charge. His business so far as our knowledge goes has been one of the best of its kind in the city, and we have always had a very high regard for the personal integrity and ability of Lim Jim. His standing with his own people we believe is a very good one and while we would not for one minute wish to condone any such serious charge as is involved in this case, we suggest that there may be some circumstance in connection with this case that might have weight with Your Honour in considering where the interests of jus tice might be served in some other way than by a sentence to the penitentiary. We are, Respectfully yours, Gault Brothers Ltd. C. T. McHattie, Ssc.-Treas. Hon. Justice W. A. McDonald, Court House, Vancouver, B. C. Dear Sir: We have been asked to subscribe to a petition in regard to the conviction of Lim Jim at the recent Assizes. While we in no way wish to condone a crime of this nature we find it hard to believe that this man is guilty of such crime as he has always had a very good standing in the business community. We have had the pleasure in doing business with him for a number of years, latterly in his capacity as manager of Gim Lee Yuen Limited. We have always found him attending to his obligations in a prompt and satisfactory manner, and we would respectfully suggest that there may be some special circumstances in connection with the case which might be further considered by your Honor. We are, Respectfully yours, Jas. Thompson & Sons Ltd. J. B. Thompson, Director. EDITORIAL Owing to the delays involved in the change in our printing arrangements, we have decided to make this issue serve for both February and March, so that our next issue will be dated April, and so cover the month we have lost. We shall have all future issues out before the first of the month for which they are dated. We have to give thanks for several donations we have received towards the cost of our new printing plant. The donors in most cases prefer to remain anonymous, but we cannot refrain from mentioning their kindness, which has helped us very materially over a difficult period. It was what some might have called foolhardy to embark on such an undertaking as the purchase of a printing plant of our own; but thanks to the help of these kind friends the worst difficulties have been overcome, and the continued ex. istence of the "Bisector" is at least assured. We shall now be able to carry out our long cherished plan of re-printing in leaflet form for wider distribution a number of the more important articles that appear in the "Bisector," and we hope to have a stock of such leaflets on hand. Donations to cover the cost of free distribution of such leaflets will always be welcomed and put to the best use. Any article that appears in future can be supplied in leaflet form at small cost at the request of readers, provided it is asked for immediately after it appears^while type is still standing. The loss of a month's issue has crowded out a number of important articles v/hich we had intended to publish. While we regret the delay in publishing these we can promise our readers much interesting matter in our next issue, m o j.C O R Lim Jim and his Wives In an article which appeared in the December issue of the "Bisector," reference was made to a rumour that Lim Jim's father-in-law had been deported for trafficing in drugs, and that he had returned to Canada, almost by the next boat. The writer of the article simply put the question whether that were so. We have had an inquiry from the Controller of Chinese Immigration as to the source of our information. We have passed the inquiry on to the writer of the article, who is dealing with it. But the inquiry awakened an interesting train of thought in our mind as to the habits of the Chinese among us, and the way we allow them to increase and multiply contrary to British law. We asked ourselves: Which father-in- law of Lim Jim's is meant? The facts of Lim Jim's family life may or may not be known to the Controller of Chinese Immigration, but we think it well to state them for the enlightenment of the Vancouver business men who told the Court that they had "long esteemed him for his many fine qualities ; his unfailing courtesy, his public and private generosity, his high probity, strict integrity, and kindly nature, free from all malice." After Lim Jim's wife had borne him seven children, she got too old for his taste and. after the manner of his nation, Lim Jim took to himself two other wives, beautiful voting Chinese girls. The original wife was simply put on the shelf. She remained in the house, but her place was usurped by the two young wives. That happened at least six or seven years ago, and the two youn? wives will probably both have families now. so Lim Jim will have three families by different wives. And we wonder why the Chinese increase so much more rapidly than the white man! So far as we know, the three wives are all living in Vancouver at the present moment, and there may be three fathers-in-law of Lim Jim's also. Lim Jim has only followed the traditions of his family. His father, Lum Duck Sue, was a prominent banker in Vancouver, and a reputed wholesale trafficer in drugs. When Lim Jim's mother died, Chinese custom required that his father should at once marry again, but it was not he himself, but his son, who was required to choose the second wife for him—the Chinese thinking it more important that the son and heir should be satisfied with his step-mother, than that the father should be satisfied with his wife. Lim Jim chose a young and good-looking Chinese girl for his father, and Lum Duck Sue duly married her, but he was not satisfied with her. He went off to China to get one for himself, and as the one on whom his choice fell had an older sister who was unmarried, Chinese custom required that he should take both. He came back here with the two sisters, though how he got them past the Immigration officials we cannot tell. When Lum Duck Sue died, his three wives were supposed to be required by law to be returned to China. We cannot think, however, that the law of Canada permits bigamy among yellow men any more than among white men. We surmise, therefore, that Lum Duck Sue got. his wives into Canada by some subterfuge; that they were not all registered in the Immigration office as his wives; and that therefore there was no record which would enable the Immigration officials to send them back to China when he died. We therefore invite the Immigration officials to look and see whether Lim Jim has three step-mothers as well as three wives here in Vancouver. A. A. FRANKLIN CO. Real Estate Insurance Conveyancing; A. BECK, Notary Public, Manager Broadway and Main Fair. 346 .THE BISECTOR .. age - lve The Penitentiary Trouble The public have been somewhat taken aback, and considerably mystified, by the order which has emanated from Ottawa, without any previous warning or hint of anything amiss, for the retiral of Col. Cooper, governor of the B. C. Penitentiary. Later dispatches from Ottawa and Col. Cooper's own statement, while they have indicated that there was friction in certain quarters, have not served to clarify the situation to any appreciable extent. Col. Cooper is reported to be complaining that he was superseded without having had an opportunity to answer charges that may have been made against him. His complaint is tantamount to a demand for an inquiry, and we think it would be satisfactory to the public that there should be an inquiry. No doubt the authorities at Ottawa made such inquiry as they deemed necessary before taking the action they did, and are satisfied that the course they have adopted is justified in all the circumstances; but it would be well if they could take the public into their confidence sufficiently to justify their action in the eyes of the people of this Province. It is seldom that outsiders are given a glimpse of what goes on within the walls of a penitentiary. The daily papers, if they know anything (which is doubtful) never say anything, even about incidents which, if they happened anywhere outside of the prison walls, would occupy front page space and create a first-class sensation. We therefore venture to indicate one or two cases which to our mind would bear looking into. There was a man named Davis, about fifty years of age, mentally deficient and a weakling, weighing only about 105 pounds, who was sentenced to life imprisonment as a self-confessed murderer in 1926. He had been out prospecting with a partner, and becoming obsessed with the idea that his partner was planning an attack on him, he had shot him and lived three days in the shack with the dead body before giving himself up. The "life imprisonment" to which he was sentenced lasted only about six months, when death gave him a happy release from his miseries. He was subject to fits, and complained several times of being ill and dizzy. He was on a number of occasions put down into the "black hole" (otherwise known as "the tombs") on minor charges. Last March he complained of being unable to do his work. He was attacked by two of the wardens, Chief Keeper Goss and Guard Field. Other convicts who witnessed the assault state that he was thrown to the ground and dragged by the neck at least forty yards; and when, distracted through fright, he tried to resist, he was kicked on the stomach and head by the two we have mentioned and other wardens who came, forsooth, to their assistance. He was dragged by the neck down the stone stairs into the "tombs" like a sack of coals. As he was going down, some of the other prisoners heard him crying out "God help me!" to which Goss is said to have answered "God will help you all right if I have anything to do with it." In the "tombs," he was laid out on a board on the cold floor. He is said to have asked for doctor's treatment, which was refused. All the men who happened to be in the "tombs" at the time, were immediately released. One of the prisoners, Joe Auriel (who ought to be examined in this matter) was ordered under the supervision of one of the guards, to clean up the mess of blood. Davis was taken down to the "tombs" alive about four o'clock in the afternoon. He was dead before six o'clock the following morning, for when the prisoners turned out in the morning his dead body was laid out in the "schoolroom," and so there was no school that day. It is said that the Chief of Police from New Westminster, with some &age Si: THE BISECTOR men to act as a jury, went out to the penitentiary to.'hold an inquest, and that the verdict recorded was "death from pneumonia." Needless to say, none of the prisoners who witnessed the treatment which we have described was invited to be present or to testify at the inquest. That is one case which in our humble opinion deserves to be inquired into. But it is only one out of many which might be cited to show the re- voltingly brutalizing treatment meted out to the prisoners. We shall mention another. There is a prisoner named Pater- son, who has often been in petty :rouble. On one occasion, while working out in the field where carrots were being grown for the institution, he was seen, or suspected of, passing carrots to another prisoner. He was chained up by the hands and raised to such a height that only his toes were touching the floor, and for ten consecutive days he was. kept all day in that excruciating position. He was forced to relieve himself in answer to the call of nature in that position. The blacksmith who was employed at the penitentiary at that time was so disgusted and sickened at the sight of the horrible treatment Paterson was receiving, that he threw up his job. We have heard and read of such tortures being inflicted by the Church of Rome upon 'heretics." The form of torment we have just described would delight the heart of the Fathers of the Holy Inquisition. But we never thought it possible that in any institution run by a civilised government such treatment could be meted out to man or bruite. ., There is another prisoner named Martin who is a Roman catholic, and so did not see his way to attend the church service which was held in the penitentiary. The Church of Rome does not believe in allowing liberty to Protestants to worship God according to the dictates of their conscience. But while we.testify against the per secuting spirit of Rome, we would protest most emphatically against a Roman catholic being compelled to attend a Protestant Church service against his will. Strange to say, it was another Roman catholic, Warden Puttenridge, who began to ridicule Martin for his refusal to attend the service. Putten- ridge's taunts at last so incensed him that he took up a chair in a fit of temper and proceeded to smash everything in his cell. Deputy Warden Trollop came up and ordered him to come out of his cell, ^nd on his refusing, ordered the fire hose to be turned on him at full pressure, knocking him unconscious or nearly so. In that condition he was taken to the "tombs," where he was kept for thirty days. We prefer to draw a veil over what has been told us of the treatment he received during those thirty days. It is said that as he was being drag'ged down to the "tombs" he was heard to shout: "You murdered Davis, but you won't murder me;" and sure enough, his strong constitution and his doggedness brought him throug'h these thirty days alive; but most men would have gone under. So Rome has got one man whom she may claim as a martyr suffering for his faith in the B. C. penitentiary, and she is entitled to make all the capital she can out of this case against the Protestants who are so foolish as to allow this sort of thing- to go on. We have no doubt some of the incidents we have referred to, and others of a similar nature, came to the ears of officials at Ottawa, and they would naturally hold Col. Cooper, as governor of the penitentiary, responsible. We trust that the new governor who has been appointed will lose no time in holding an inquiry into the way in which discipline has been maintained, and if the disciplinary measures used were as they have been reported to us, we expect there will be a few more vacancies on the staff before long. THE BISECTOR Page Seven The Police Mix.Up which takes note of the life of this city, has joined in the chorus of protest against the corruption which is so apparent everywhere. The "Vancouver Daily Province," which does not often go out of its way to notice any of its smaller contemporaries, recently, in addition to a scathing leading article of its own, reprinted the greater part of a leading article from the "Western Tribune." We can quote but a short section of that article, but we add our testimony to that of the "Province" and the "Tribune" as to the accuracy of the description it contains: The wrangling of the Vancouver Police Commissioners among themselves, both at their meetings and in the press, over the premature disclosure of the intended shake-up in the police force, has been to the citizens an illuminating, if not a very edifying, spectacle. Mayer Taylor's bitter attack on Commissioner Fletcher for divulging the Commissioners' plans, while providing a pitiful exhibition of temper, was too manifestly a mere snatching at a straw, magnifying a trivial incident to provide a smoke-screen to divert attention from the absence of disciplinary measures to deal with the corruption which has made our city police force a by-word. Mr. Fletcher's heated demand for a thorough clean-up failed to carry conviction owing to his silence on several occasions when ex-- posures of police methods appeared to call for drastic action, and the sus-j picion that his sudden and unwontedj activity at this time was part of ? plan by the Attorney General, in con nection with the Amalgamation Bil for Greater Vancouver, to so discredi the City Police as to have the police [ administration of the city handed ovei to the Provincial Police. There has been a slight changing around of offices, mainly within the Criminal Investigation Department, but no one has been dismissed, and only one officer has been reduced in rank; and Mayor Taylor hotly asserts "The public are satisfied." Mr. Fletcher says: "The public are not satisfied." If the expressions of opinion which find vent in the daily and weekly press is any index, then the public are not only dissatisfied, but they are thoroughly disgusted. We have not noticed any sign of dissent on the part of Mayor Taylor's Roman catholic friends—their Church always seems to thrive best in countries and cities where moral conditions are filthiest— but with that single exception, every paper, daily, weekly, or monthly, It is a common topic in clubs, cafes, and on the street, that a rotten condition exists in city police affairs; it is also commonly held that the rottenness does not concentre on the department now under fire. The fact is, as nearly every wideawake citizens holds, from a social and mor al standpoint, the town is "wide open" Gambling dives flourish by the score. Crooked 'bucket shop' bookmakers operate in broad daylight by the hundred. Merchants in the downtown section find business poor, because, they assert, the Chinese lotteries and the bookmakers get first attention from the loggers, sailors, and longshoremen who comprise the bulk of their customers. This, too, explains why the city of late has been over-run with panhandlers, broke and hungry. The Tribune has referred to these matters on previous occasions, but took the position that the police force may have become just a little lax, and only needed reminding of the matter. But what attempt was made to stop the evil? In the territory between Abbott and Main streets, from Pender street to the waterfront, it is commonly accepted by everyone who knows the district that more than a hundred Chinese lotteries are operating every day, taking Page Eight THE BISECTOR thousands of dollars out of the pockets of loggers, sailors, and longshoremen and others who come into the city with fat pay cheques in their pokets. It is commonly believed, too, bx many who know anything of Vancouver underworld, that most of these cUyes are owned by one sleek Chinaman, a man of enormous wealth, and one who appears to be on friendly teems with some of the city's leading white citizens. Sit is one city fester of which the pSIip^'are fully aware, but which no rjgi ffigjXi is made to cure. v1^yj|Q|ljier has spread its tentacles all o^erpthsj city, even as far uptown as Bmad.^ay], but having its main operating ground on Granville street between Robson and Davie. Here is a verftaibleitjolony of crooked bookmak- ers-jjnrosjt ofrthem operating as agents for.'biieG o-frfrhree wealthy syndicates ofiiHlieABj.".r©Jie notorious syndicate hariiheiflqiMartors in a luxurious suite at a smart uptown hotel. The leader ofJjhis gangjs^jpeported to have open- .tyJsBSt®!? rcroff lriere were at 'east 2gp 'Jffigf' Jfee*PU?f( books for his HiWliofl,^3yib ■snildi , , ,. 'Jorji J#ii8'sfMS3^ that the pollce Hm wmmASiMondlti0^- -when ey^fjyfrpan( who ijifllow.s the Tijuana r%§(^P^.fii])y(j%o,ws;where to place f-ffAi?SdPw ?amiiS an(J h?m^fr,mmms9f. many of sdi srhqrnop. oriw .ricrrmoi , M ym JthmpIoteJptr^JJand \as mm.M^i #v5rs miiW s™^ tion—Protection. Who gefs the. protection money ? 3}fflt fs wiWntruj"d[ii I— to"nndrdui:." *J" , anypnc „..—. „., t„.^ „ , m?gh^^e'rag^ptl*r!I-oJhliy?Mtfo|kie?^ were operating. Even thenlt 9woifl8 b^m?a»#4^i^fe;3fkf;icarintrie)i<i)tiigr handefflere''a{-e'%to fgw'Wn'"Wffo «e^ aveiige'^o'eaftoffttfSfs'icMal! &^'fmwW^ pdniet?'1' fliatF-aftiefc orfe' 9nW9«fte5<f}h3 be^na''beiiei.h-Blit'n^Hrft'-rl)!b'6W''thef^ CMffefe? e:l> viovu gnhsisqo ati; ?.ohoi >oo stfbivsiq He would be a credulous fool who swallowed the statement that these scores of dives are operating unknown to the police. The poor ignorant logger, no matter how strange to city ways, knows where to find them, to his bitter cost. Then the police officers with jurisdiction in this matter must know all about it. And nobody is going to believe that those members of the police force leave the "poor Chinks" alone for sheer love of them. Are the members of the Chinatown squad collecting protection money, or have they orders from someone higher up to "lay off" the dives? Which is correct, the Tribune does not presume to know. It may be mistaken in its entire conception of the situation. But the facts are all self- evident. No one will deny that lotteries exist in large numbers. It is up to Chief Long to discover why. Such is the condition that has long existed, and that still exists. The city was mildly shocked recently when a speaker on a public platform told how some of the underworld fraternity were enticing loggers and miners from all over the Province to come to Vancouver by describing it as "the wickedest city on the American continent." Yet how many could deny that the description was fairly applicable? So far as we can make out, the recent changes in the police department have not resulted in the closing of one dive or gambling den. "There is but one explanation •—• Protection." "Who gets the protection money?" It is not the "Tribune" alone that asks the question. Some members of our detective department may own shares in gold mines, or may have made successful speculations in oil stock. We do not say that they have not. But when we hear of men who receive from the city a salary of $160 to $175 a month building or purchasing nouses in the most exclusive part of the city, that could not be maintained on an income ofdess than $6,000 to $8,000 a year; •'(.'<■ (Continued on Page 32) THE BISECTOR Page Nine Facts about the Invisible Empire The Truth About the Ku Klux Klan. , ,,.. What it is aid what it stanch for. By A. J. ENGLAND A plain ctatcnent of the objects and purposes of this powerful secret order, its Criterion and its Creed. EDITOR'S NOTE.—The fol'owins article on the Canadian Ku K us Klan is from the pen of its Vice-president, Mr. A. J. England, who is also making valuable contributions to the BISECTOR on the narcotic traffic. This is the fourth time that the BISECTOR has opened its columns to Klan artless. The first was in September, 1927, to rreet a local situation in Vancouver; the second, a report on (he union cf Canadian Klan bodies, which the prnss of B. C. stifled; the third to warn Saskatchewan readers asainst spurious K an organizers, who",e subsequent eiE^Q u e li~". been reported in the press throughout Canada. This, the fourth article, may be considered the first public o^cial utterance of the national Klan bo.'y in Canada, and the BISECTOR considers it o-'v fair to its readers and to the Klan itself that they should know at first hand the platform and policy of this organ'zition. In this spirit the BISECTOR will continue to open its columns to the Klan, and is confident that its readers will heartily endorse this policy, Possib'y there has net yet been an organization or fraternity more misunderstood than the Triple K. or the Ku Klux Klan. Part of this misundc's^a^cPng is natural but most of it is the result of definite and direct m'sreprassntatian. It has been accused of almost every crime in the criminal calendar, and has had laid at its door as many ritual crimes and fraternal offences as in the former days were laid against the Masonic fraternity, not excluding that of ritual murder. '"-ess. -Imost vithout re lief, appears to broadcast reports reflecting unfavorably on the organization; and platform, parliament, and pulpit are to be found decrying the organization as a thing unclean and unworthy. It is therefore quite natural to find the mails are deluged with enquiries for 'authentic information as to the Society and its objects and purposes. With the advent of a united and National kkn in the Dominion of Canada, through the union of the three major bodies heretofore ope-.ht- ris;, and the very wide publicity given this fact from the press services, this demand for authentic information has become very pronounced, and for this resson this article is prepared. As is customary amon^r fraternities, a statement of the platform, or prccldming the oriGfim.l cneenlion of the movement, is published. There is nothing mysterious about it—nor is there, in fact, about any part of the rit-ia] or practices of the order — tin greater part of which is. in fa"4, gratuitously hms on to it by iia opponents, When, in the hectic neriod fob lowing the Civil War. the organism of the Ku Klux Khn was revived in th1; United States, there were a number of titles and modes of address in use, which, just as in other and more modern fraternities, were somewhat wierd. All these have been abolished, however, and the klan organization in Canada is entirely free— containing far less of this sort of jr^mno- than most other frater- nities. The system of government, formerly designated by Cantons, Provinces, Realms, and an Imperial Council, survives, and the decrees of the order are promulgated by the Imperial Council. The national klan of Canada is officially known as the Invisible Empire, Knights (and Ladies) of the Ku Klux Klan of Canada, and its first official announcement to the people of the Dominion takes the form of an Imperial Proclamation, whiA reds as follows: IMPERIAL PROCLAMATION Greeting: We. the Imperial Wizard and citizens of the Invisible Empire, Knights (and Ladies) of the Ku Klux Klan of Canada, do declare that as members of this order, we seek to promote unselfish peace and iustice among men and nations: loyalty to Constitutional Government in Canada, and to the maintenance of our cherished heritage in the commonwealths comprising the British Empire. We believe these purposes can be best served through a mystic association, having a perfr"ted l^dge system and an effective form of government. To this end. not for selfish profit, but for mutual betterment, benefit, and protection of our oath- bound associates, we therefore proclaim that we have dedicated ourselves to demonstrate the practical utility of such an honourable association as a real force in the lives and affairs of men. We invite all who can qualify as citizens of the Invisible Empire to approach its portals and join us in extending its boundaries and increasing its service: to conserve and utilize our racial instincts of their intended noble purpose: protecting womanhood, commemorating . the chivalry and achievements of our forebears by a faithful observance of our sacred obligations, and safeguarding the rights and privileges flf Bilf Constitution, The Invisible Empire is founded on sterling character, a reverence for the Immutable Laws of God, and the consecrated bond of noble purpose. It is promoted by the sincere, unselfish devotion of dedicated men and women, and is governed by their consecrated intelligence. It is the soul of chivalry, the shield of virtue, and the devout impulse -of men and women of an unconquerable race. This document is dated Toronto, Ontario, October 22, 1927, being the result of revisions made at Vancouver, B. C. since the original date (August 22, 1924) on October 16, 1925, and March 17, 1926, and at Toronto on January 15, 1925; and has the signatures of the Vice-President and secretary; or, in the parlance of the Klan, the Imperial Caliph and Imperial Scribe, for the Executive Trustees, appended on November 5, 1927. It also carries the seal of the order. Like other fraternities and the church, the Ku Klux Klan has a creed. It is simple and the ideals it expresses must appeal to the best of our Canadian citizenry. It reads: THE CREED We. the citizens of the Invisible Em- oire, Knights (and ladies) of the Ku Klux Klan of Canada, reverently acknowledge the Supreme Majesty of God our Father: and His Son, Jesus Christ, as our Criterion of Character. We believe, as citizens of Canada, that we share with the citizens of other Commonwealths and Dependencies of the British Empire, a Sacred Heritage, and we regard it as worthy of o%r strongest support: and we give, to the just laws and constitutional systems that perpetuate our traditional rights and privileges, our full and unswerving devotion and allegiance. We believe that our white race has a ministry of supreme service to mankind, and that the introduction of elements which cannot readily be assimilated or fused into our racial stock will lead to the corruption of racial health and seriously impair the service we mi^bt otherwise render to our fellow men. We therefore avow ourselves to be ever true to the maintenance of ouf racial integrity. We recognize the practical benefit of fraternal association among oeople of kin. dred thought and common ideals and there* fore pledge ourselves to r»rarf'se an honourable klannishness toward all citizens of the divisible Empire, for mutual benefit a"d sfvire. "Non Sibi Sed Alteris." (Not for self, but for others). THE OBJECTIVE The klan seeks to unite in a fellowship the loyal. whi*e Protestant neople of Canada. Thev must be 18 years of age, of good reputation and sound mind, prepared THE BISECTOR Page Eleven to enter the fellowship by subscription to a common oath and to be strictly regulated therein. They must believe in the tenets of Christianity, recognize the necessity of freedom of the State from ecclesiastical control, pledge themselves to seek justice in law and in life, to strive for higher standards of public morals, to uphold the Constitution and Laws of Canada, to seek real unity of the Commonwealths within the British Empire and to maintain racial integrity by rigid systems of selective immigration. They also obligate themselves to chivalrous purposes in the preservation of womanly virtue and si and for liberty in v real sense of freedom of speech and press, and for an unsectarian public school system. The Klan, again, like other fraternities, inculcates a high philosophy through a system of rit- ualisic degrees. Its members are enjoined to protect the weak, the innocent and the defenceless from the indignities, the wrongs. and the outrages of the lawless, the violent, and the brutal. Further, each member is obligated to aid and assist in the execution of all constitutional laws; to preserve the dignity of the State by firmly opposing tyranny jn any form or degree, from any source, by insistence on a faithful and fearless administration of justice by the duly constituted officers thereof and to meet every behest of puDlic duty without fear and without repreaeh. "REAL FRATERNITY" The reader will readily subscribe to all the foregoing—and possibly, by virtue of association with other fraternities, find that it bears a close resemblance to the ideals and objectives of many fraternities. Hence, if the klan is to provide an appeal to the general public, it must demonstrate that it differs from these either in its programme or its strategy. Most modern fraternities, after all, are but left-overs of a more primitive form of society. The primitive character has been washed out of the present day forms—or the ancient light which illuminated their alwrs u#,s, became dimmed—the truths which governed and fashioned the character of the fraters has become obscure and clouded—though the secret pass-words and the calls for aid are retained. While this may be. aid f 'most' fraternities, there are certain notable exceptions. In the Orient, it is not true, for instance, of the Chinese 'tongs.' In the Occident, it is not true of the Ku Klux Klan. The Chilnese tongs are 'going' concerns—their oaths are genuine—real; their vengeances posi- tiva and relentless; their duties are assumed by oath-bound members and their fealties are unquestioned. In the Occident—the outstand- ing example is the Kla.n. In neither of these classifications must one forget, of course, the Jesuit order, which operates in both Orient and Occident, but the Klan is a 'going' concern — its oaths are genuine and real; it3 duties, are not lightly assumed and its fealties are not open to question- The klan, moreover, is not a competitor of other fraternities. There are many Protectant, frftt» grnities, whose membership i s, restricted to people of our own stock, but the klan, by its secret character, becomes more or less a clearing houne for them all, Membership in the klan is not public property. No member may divulge the identity of another. No mailing list is at the disposal of whosoevo-" wills to fasten thereon. This is -■ ae £ mdamental secret of the Ku Klux Klan — that of its membership—as a result of which it remains an unknown quantity— it strength cannot be measured— it permeates the community. For all the reader -, knows, every daily action may, through his immediate neighbor, be observed by the unseen eye of the Invisible Empire. The Churches Nor is the klan a competitor of the churches. It has and seeks to exemplify a high moral and spiritual code. It questions no ""person's credal relations and stands for complete freedom" of worship of all men and any creed. There are few, however, who will deny that a large number of .men and women, seeing conditions 'perpetuated which fraternal association and church practice are held to condemn, have gradually tost faith in fraternities and churches alike. ...To these, and to those who still find something in the fraternities and the churches (and there is much in them.both for those who earnestly seek), the Man is the medium through which the volunteer armies in their reserve trenches can find expression. To the men and women of the fraternities it presents an effective weapon with which to protect the right of fellowship; to the men and women of the churches it presents a shield and a -buckler to preserve the right of free and public worship as dictated by the human conscience; while to those whose experience has caused thern to lose faith in either, the klan presents a medium constituted to carry into execution the ideals and principles they still hold dear. The klan is not proscribed by the apathy of the pew-holder nor the dogma of the pulpiteer nor is it- a weapon forged in behalf of any: cause other than that of the loyal, white Protestants of Canada. The Political Are^a. The klan, further, is not a par. tisan political agency. The citizens of the Invisible Empire may adhere to any political faith and find common ground of fellowship and service in the klan. At the same time, it by no means, bars a free and frank discussion of political questions in its assemblies—rather does it invite them, in the hope that throughout all political parties and in all their activities, the principles which govern the association of klansmen and klanswomen may find entry and adherence. There are few, however deeply seated may be their partisan affiliations, who will deny that our political systems have wandered far from the platforms '. which brought them into being — and that most of their proponents, sadly enough, appear to have lost all vision but that of self. To secure, then, a higher standard of political morals, men and women of all political belief will find in the Ku Klux Klan an agency through which these standards may be inculcated. Much has been said about the use of the mask, by members of the Ku Klux KSan. It will be found that those who cry most loudly against the visor of the klansman, worn only in one part of his ritualistic ceremonies, are those who fear most the unmasking of their unrighteous activities in the world of affairs—in the country at large and in the social strata. In these three aspects, the religious, the fraternal and the poli- lical, the position of the klan is; as to creed, it is the individual business of the citizen; as to fraternal association, that also is a matter of choice; as to his political activity, his owh knowledge and investigation should lead to the formation of his allegiances. It ctands definitely for these three principles, and takes no issue with any, unless the religion T HE BISECT O R Page Thirteen enters into the political arena, the fraternity proves a menace to free institutions, or the political system becomes subversive of good government. The Enemies of the Klan. "The Klan has many enemies. So have other fraternities; so have the churches. The enemies of the. Ku Klux Klan are the enemies of other fraternities of Protestant men and women, and are precisely the same as threaten the churches. Those who "love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil," Will not be found singing the praises of the klan. The enemies of the klan, of the fraternities and of the churches denounce the klan more loudly than the rest. , Why ? Because they fear that the Klan will prove to be more potent in confounding their nefarious deeds. The citizens of the Invisible Empire believe that their organization, by virtue of its constitution and the practice of secrecy concerning its membership, is one of the most powerful secret societies in operation. Its enemies declare it to be the most dangerous secret order existing. Between the two there is absolute agreement, the admission of its enemies proving its own contention. It has been said that the Klan is not wanted in Canada. Very true. The men and women engaged in the narcotic traffic in Canada do not want the Klan in Canada. The eye of the Invisible Empire sees further and more than eyes below a uniform cap. It is not wanted by crooked officials who escape , unorganized public opinion, but cannot avoid and dare not face, the organized citizenry mobilized in the klan to end maladministration. The Klan is not wanted by vote-buying politicians. The Klan is not wanted by proprietors- of gambling dens, or other running sores which deface so many Canadian communities. The Klan is not wanted in Canada by any person or group of persons who have to fear -the organized white Protestant manhood and womanhood of the Dominion; whether they are engaged in lawless practices, out to victimize all or part of the people, or attempting to make the free people of this Dominion pay servile respect to Rome, Russia, or Dollars hoarded and misused. It has been said that the klan could never be organized here, or that if organized, a low and undesirable type would join it, and in any case it could never have permanence. The facts are that the klan is needed in Canada, that the need is recognized, that it has organized, and is. now operating: throughout the Dominion as a united organization, that men and women of all classes are becoming citizens of the Invisible Empire, and that they are "staying with it" because they recognize it is built for service, has and knows its mission, and in spite of calumny and opposition, is pressing forward to the accomplishment of its purposes. The glory, of klansmen and klanswomen is to serve. Silently— and secretly—they serve. Their white robes prevent, ordinary marks of distinction from obtruding themselves—in the assemblies and conclaves of the Invisible Empire there is no respect of persons. Unless duty demands it—the great mass of klansmen and klanswomen will remain unknown. One may live lor years and never come consciously before the eyes of the Invisible Empire, but let crookedness and corruption, however, raise their heads, and this great organization will be found fearlessly leading the fight to eradicate these things from our national life. The klan is not, as its enemies would have it understood, an organization of people who are anti- negro; anti-orientai; anti-this or anti-that. It believes in justice to people of all classes, colour or creed and will never be found in any other category. It believes also in justice to the loyal, white, Protestant people of Canada, and will always be found in the forefront of the battle for the preservation of those things which are dear to loyal, white, Protestants. It is an organization of law- abiding citizens, which neither countenances law violaticin, on the part of others, nor knowingly tolerates it among its members. Neither the klan nor its members claim to be perfect. Like all human organizations it may have failings, but to the people of Canada who have eyes to see, and whose concern grows as they see, the Klan appears like the dawning of a better day. The klan stands for everything which will build the race and against everything which tears it down. It is for the Public School, free from sectarian dominance and influence; it stands four-square against the forces that cater to the sensuous and immoral, that prey upon human weakness and pander to ignorance and vice. It will take sedition out of society, treason out of training and corruption out of civic conduct. If you treasure the heritage we share with the sister Commonwealths of the Empire and are loyal to its traditions, your place is with the Klan, to assist in preserving the integrity, the blood purity, the moral stamina, the ideals of our white race in Canada. Your place is with the organized race movement—dedicated to the preservation of those things which have made for our race a place in the affairs of men. If you believe in practical Christianity, your place is with an organized movement calculated to put the principles of the open Bible into practice. If you believe in law and order, your place is with an organized movement whose mission is to inculcate respect for these factors, emphasising obedience to law and insisting on its full and impartial enforcement by those charged with that duty. If you believe that loyal white Protestant Canadians should have the same right in their own land as is permitted to alien and other groups, your place is in the klan Other racial groups are organized in this land of ours and exercise the privilege of free assembly, free speech and free press. Organized Effort The effort of the individual may count for little in the larger interests of the nation. The combined efforts of a group multiply the power for service. Well organized, well planned and well directed effort need fear to assay no task. Such is the purposed effort of the klan. The most sublime thought in all language of all time is contained in the motto of the Ku Klux Klan. It greets members of the order as they enter their caverns of assembly. It is the message of their obligation and whispers its Benediction as they again set forth to serve. It is the spirit of klancraft. It is the echo of the Voice which said: "I am among you as one that serveth," and is expressed in the words: "Non Sibi Sed Alteris." Can You Qualify? The true interests of the home, of the community, of your province and of the nation should impel all who are true to seek admission to the Invisible Empire, a fellowship of men and women with lofty ideals of race, in a Crusade for God, for home and for country. The BISECTOR Page Fifteen Mass'Mongers Meet the Milkman Shaughnessy Heights Dames Reverse the Adage: "Early to Bed, Early to Rise." In our younger and less sophisticated days we used to think that the Church of Rome had at least one advantage over Protestant bodies generally : she could get her people to rise from their beds and turn out for worship very early in the morning. We still believe that is true in some cases: there are papists who are sufficiently in earnest about their religion to get up early on Sunday morning to go ■ to mass, if it were only to get it over and done with for the day. It would be gratifying to the priests to see wealthy followers of the Romish faith turning out for mass in the very early hours of Sunday morning, if they supposed for a moment that these people were zealous enough to rise from their beds at such a time. But how many are aware of the system which is in vogue in Shaughnessy Heights and such-like places, where the "faithful" are notoriously "lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God?" On Saturday night, the ladies gather in the house of one of their number for a bridge party. The game is carried on all night, hundreds of dollars being frequently won or lost by individual players. When it "begins to dawn towards the First Day of the Week," the party breaks up, and the ladies go to early morning mass before going home to bed. These fine ladies spend the greater part of the day in bed — if not sleeping, then smoking and reading novels, and in some cases drinking, till the approach of darkness warns them, as it does also the wild beasts, that it is time to get up and prowl abroad once more. The priests cannot but be aware that this is, and has been for longer than we have been able to trace back, the custom of many of their patrons at the early morning mass. It must be made well worth their while to wink at such a practice. It is a custom among men who gamble for high stakes, for the winner to stand drinks all round. We wonder if at the close of a bridge party where the stakes are high, the winner stands masses all round. Or perhaps if the ladies ge to confession, the priest takes care to ask each one of them how much she won, and fixes the price of absolution accordingly. What kind of god do these people believe in, who can be satisfied with such a perfunctory act of worship wedged in between such a night and such a day? Would it not be as well to be an Indian and to worship the hideous faces on a totem pole, as to worship such a caricature of God as they must have before their minds. But are these Saturday night bridge parties attended exclusively by Roman Catholics? We have reason to believe that they are not. The non-catholics cannot of course mock God in the same way by ending up the night's debauch with a form of worship, for the Protestant Churches have no arrangements for accommodating revellers in the small hours of Sunday morning. Most of the non-catholics are non-Protestant, also; they are people who have no regard for religion in any shape or form. But there is, we believe, a small minority of these revellers who find their way into Protestant places of worship on Sabbath evening, and are allowed to occupy a place in the Church for which their conduct ill befits them. Ministers in Protestant Churches should take care to see that this practice, which forms a smudge on the face of Christianity, is left to those to whom it belongs, Roman catholics and inn- dels, . . T H E B I S E C T O R PRINCIPAL VANCE AND THE A-G it cams as a shock to the whole civilized section of British Columbia to rer.d how, when Principal Vance or the Anglican College here was brough; by one of the members into cur Legislative iVsembly, Attorney General Manson drew the Speakers a tendon to "the stranger," and called for hij removal from the riousj; and that, as it was afterwards explained for purely personal reasons, because Principal Vance was reported —erroneously, as it turned out — to have passed some derogatory remark about the Attorney-General. What the remark was, or what the occasion on which it was supposed to have been mtered, it is not intended that the public should know; for both p :."[ies appear to have agreed that. ;-o far as it lies in their power, the incident will be buried in oblivion. We may be wrong, but we cannot refrairi from hazarding a guess. We shall tell our readers a little story wh'.ch came to our ears some little time ago, which may throw light upon the attitude of some members of the government towards Principal Vance. When the University lands were laid out in Point Grey, a section of ;.bout five acres was set aside for each of the larger Churches for a theolo- gic :! College. These plots were donated by the government to the Roman catholic, Anglican, Methodist (later the United) and Presbyterian Churches. As donated, these pieces of land were in the rough, covered with huge stumps, and would cost a considerable sum of money to clear. The Anglicans set to work and cleared their own section, he Roman catholic section meantime bring also cleared; and then, so it is said, Principal Vance made the disrovery that the Roman catholics had had their section cleared for them at the expense of the provincial gov- ernmen . He at once went over to Virtoria and "read the Riot Act"— these are our informant's exact words —to Mr. Pattullo, minister of lands; and Mr. Pattullo, to keep him quiet, handed him a cheque for the whole amount that the Anglican Church had sp.nt on clearing their land, with interest to date. Such is the story which is being whispered around in Church circles. And if the facts are as stated, we can well understand that Principal Vance might have said some things that were not quite complimentary about some members of the government. But what we cannot understand is how Mr. Manson, who is a Continuing Presbyterian, should be a party to such a glaring piece of favouritism towards the Church of Rome. New Styles in Weddings From Hamilton, Ontario, comes word of the solemnisation of a wedding under the auspices of the Ku Klux Klan. Both bride and groom were me,lmbers of the organization, the ceremony being performed by the Klan chaplain, an ordained minister. The wedding, which took place in December, is held by members as an augury of the principle of the klan organization, which seeks to "unite" loyal, white Protestants. The practice of members of this order having such ceremonies performed under its auspices is growing, and it is believed this is the first of such weddings to take place in Hamilton. In the west, it will be remembered, an elaborate wedding was witnessed early in 1926, accord- (Continued on page 20) Rome Exploits Mexico CANADA'S PERIL By "Watchman" In "The Chalice" An incident of the gravest signfi- cance has just occurred in Canada— I refer to the violent protest of the Romish Bishop, Fallon, against the visit of Sir Henry Thornton to Mexico. This incident and its ever-widening circle of effects is of great value to all who are able to see even a little of what underlies surface events and who can read the true story which runs between the lines of newspaper report or comment. Let us consider the facts. 1. Sir Henry Thornton, who is at the head of large railway interests in Canada, visits Mexico upon business presumably connected with the railway situation in that country. 2. Immediately this Romish Bishop, Fallon, makes a frenzied and hysterical attack upon the Government of Mexico, the Premier and Government of Canada, and upon Sir Henry Thornton because the latter visited Mexico in connection with the railway situation in that country. 3. This ruffianly and lying attack was replied to by the Mexican Consul in Ottawa in courteous and restrained language ; he made that reply as the official representative of the Mexican government in this country. 4. Immediately a second Papist screecher in the person of Charles Marcil, the Roman Catholic M.P. for Bonaventure, leaps into the ring. He makes his letter the occasion for deliberately advocating the break-off of friendly relations between Canada and Mexico. (See letter in The Ottawa Journal dated December 16th). 5. The matter is boomed, headlined and advertised by every Catholic-controlled paper in the country, and the suggestion that the Mexican Consul be re-called is put forward and persistently emphasized. These facts have been chronicled by every paper of note in the country and cannot be denied. Upon the face of it this uproar and outcry is out of all proportion to the incident itself. But the truth does not lie upon the surface; the actual causes underlying this vehement violence are carefully hidden; the real facts are never hinted at. The truth is that Sir Henry Thornton's mission to Mexico, would, if successful, cut athwart the Romish conspiracy whose ultimate objective is the domination of the North American continent by the Hierarchy of Rome. But in raising the present issue the plotters have made a fatal mistake. By the providence of God they have thereby placed in our hands irrefutable evidence of the existence of this vast plot against the lives and liberty of all non-Catholic peoples. By reason of the publicity they themselves have given to the matter for their own ends, the attention of the people of Canada and of the United States has been aroused. For us it constitutes a God-given opportunity to expose the almost endless ramifications of the Romish Peril, and to awaken the people of this continent to the pit which yawns beneath their feet. Out of their own mouths they are condemned. The whole situation can be stated plainly in a few paragraphs; it is +his—The government and the people of Mexico have determined to free themselves from the intolerable oppressions of the Papal Hierarchy and rule—a rule which has held sway in that unhappy land ever since the piratical expedition of Cortez, instigated and backed by the rapacious and bloody policies of the Church of Rome, Under the governments of Obregon and Calles, great strides towards, this freedom have been made, and as a consequence the Papal interests are incessantly plotting- for the overthrow and downfall of the constituted government in Mexico. .Unable at the moment to accomplish this openly and by force of arms, they have resorted to those secret and underhand methods which have ever characterized the policies of "holy' Church—the modern counterparts of the poison and the knife, the secret tribunal and the stake, she wielded so successfully in the Middle Ages. in the present instance. Catholic interests have planned to force the hands of the Government of Mexico through financial pressure. During a critical period the defacto government of Mexico was* recently drawn into a "financial agreement" with one of the greatest Banking Houses in the United States. At the right moment pressure was exerted to enforce payment, and under cover of a pretended effort to negotiate loans to the Government from other Banking institutions for-the liquidation of the debt, measures were taken to prevent any such assistance being rendered. The second move in the game was to secure the appointment of one of the partners in this great Banking House to the position of United States Ambassador to Mexico. This gentleman was entrusted with the task of bringing about an ' "agreement" which involves the control of her Customs Revenues. That agreement is, to the best of our knowledge, still unsigned, ft was at this critical moment that the hardly- pressed Mexican government turned its eyes Northward to Canada — a friendhr and Protestant countr'y — in the hope of finding some escape from the net of intrigue ' by which it was surrounded. The visit of Sir Henry Thornton was the outcome, and now these Catholic plotters are furious lest after all, the victim should escape them. Some account of these facts is given in The Ottawa Journal in a recent issue, and we take the liberty of quoting some of the more important paragraphs. This article states that— "The visit of Sir Henry Thornton to Mexico was for the purpose of making a valuation of Mexican railroads in order to assist the Calles government . . . and to secure funds to help the Mexican government out of its difficulties. . . The facts behind the visit of Sir Henry Thornton to Mexico are well known in New York and particularly in Wall Street financial circles. The facts collected there are as follows. A few years ago a financial agreement was entered into between Pani, the Mexican Minister of Finance, and Thomas W. L-amont, one of the partners in J. P. Morgan Company." 8he earlier history of this arrangement is then recounted, including the sewing-up of the Mexican Government in the matter of credit reliefs. The article then continues : "Fearing that an amount in excess of two million dollars which was under the control of the Mexican Consul General's office in New York would be attached by Morgan & Co. or some other creditor, President Calles quietly arranged to have Mexican funds in New York transferred to the Bank of Montreal." , The article then tells of the new line of pressure brought to bear as ' a result of this action; it says—"Mr. D wight'W. Morrow, a class-mate of President Coolidsre and a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan- and Co. (black face type is ours) was appointed American Ambassador to Mexico. . . . The next step was to present a treaty of commerce and amity to the Calles ' Government; This treaty, intelligent and patriotic Mexicans believed would destroy the economic independence of Mexico. For that reason the belief is that Calles will not sign it. . . " This most illuminating article concludes with the following item: "Wall Street expectation also is that if Ambassador Morrow is successful in patching tip any kind of an agreement with Calles, it will be his first step towards becoming Secretary of State of the United States, THE BISECTOR SUPPLEMENT Page Tliree in succession to the present Secretary, Mr. Kellog." Personally we would eliminate the words "any kind of" and let it ride. It now remains to be seen whether or not the Mexican head will be delivered on the Dwight Morrow charger. Those who understand the inner significance of events in the United States during the past twelve or eighteen months, well know that Roman Catholic interests have worked ceaselessly to drive the Government of that country to a declaration of war upon Mexico; and that is merely that the Roman Catholic "religion" may secure a fresh strangle-hold upon a people who are making a courageous fight for religious freedom and a decent educational system. That part of the plot having failed for the momeru:, they are working now to bring about a rupture of the friendly ■ relations existing between Mexico and Canada, and especially to prevent any assistance reaching the former country in her struggle against oppression. I ask every thinking man and woman to-decide what is the nature of the power behind such devilish policies and practices as these. Is it the power of Christ or of anti-Chrisf? .Unfortunately the average Protestant in this country is indifferent and almost, wholly-uninformed as to the real nature of that power; he is content to go on his own way and leave 'the other fellow' to do the same. He is unsuspicious and temporarily non- resisting. It is time that men and women were awakened to the real condition of things. If religious and individual freedom is to be preserved as a heritage for our children in this land, the nation, must first be shown the truth and then be roused to action. In his insulting "Open Letter" to the Premier of Canada this Bishop describes those in authority in Mexico as a "gang of venal ruffians and treacherous assassins who have displaced civilization by savagery, and have destroyed the last vestige of civil and religious liberty in the Repub lic of Mexico." He says that the Premier of Canada has "besmirched the honor of 'Canada" and he characterizes Sir Henry's visit to Mexico as "the most disgraceful, indecent and indefensible episode in its whole history." I state openly that every one of those statements are lies; I state that they constitute a ruffianly and slanderous attack upon the honor of every Protestant man and woman in this country, upon the honor of Canada and upon the honor of her Chief Minister. The statements made of the government in Mexico are wicked and easily proven lies; they are the outcome of "religious" rancour and hatred, and are a calculated part of the plot for Papal domination in this continent! For this man to speak as a "Canadian citizen" is a mere hypocri-' tical blind; he is a creature of Rome, a vassal of the Head of the Hierarchy of Evil and an enemy of truth, justice and charity. It is time for one to arise who is unafraid to declare the truth; it is time that the people of Canada refute the lie; it is time that they once and for all .render impotent this corrupt - and iniquitous political system spreading like poison-weed over the length and breadth of the land, and masquerading under fhe name and skirts of "religion." (To be Continued) The Ladies of the KU KLUX KLAN of CANADA Will Hold a BAZAAR on the afternoon of THURSDAY, APRIL 5th commencing at 2 p.m. on the second floor of the ORANGE HALL, GORE AVE. Total Proceeds will be donated to THE PROTESTANT HOME FOR CHILDREN New Westminster .» uiujiUTOK SUPPLEMENT RUSSIA READY EOR JVAR London, Dec.—European Military experts are watching with deep interest the efforts of the Russian Soviet Government to develop the use of poison gas in warfare. It is well known that under Trotsky's "Supreme Revolutionary War Council," Russia made great efforts to develop to the highest perfection the use of gas for war purposes. The aim of the war council was to combine the improvements of poison gas with aerial navigation, which [also was advocated by Trotsky, and thus to create a war instrument of greatest efficiency for the Red Army—the aero-chemical arm. Russian experts have always held that gas attacks from the air will be of the highest importance in future wars, and they also know that the success of gas warfare depends largely on a highly developed domestic industry organized in peace time. Great efforts have therefore been made for some time past to create industrial establishments of this kind throughout Rus- SYSTEM CHANGED Until recently the instruction of th Red Army in the use of gas weapons and the defence against them was given in special gas schools. Lately the system has been changed; the soldiers are now instructed on special manoeuvre fields. The theoretical instruction methods have also been changed to practical exercise in "Chemical Training Camps" that are now suited to the psychology of the men. The principal point is that the exercises are carried out with genuine poison gases. Attacks with chloride gas and the American "Adamsite" alternate with the poisoning of whole tracts with mustard gas, which today is still considered "king of gases." All of these poison gases are produced by Russain chemists in the laboratories of universities and factories. The endeavor of' Bolshevist Russia is to demonstrate to the world that the Communist Union is independent of the capitalist states as far as production is concerned. The' extent of the gas technical training of the Red Army is disclosed by the report of M. Kolesnikoff, who says in the special edition of the Russion military magazine, "Voinai Technica": "What is taught in the army gas schools in three or four hours, members of the Red Army with a certain degree of intelligence learn in forty or fifty minutes at the chemical training camps." DEFENCE AGAINST GAS Still higher value is placed on the defence against gas weapons. This defence is not restricted to military circles, but extends to the population, which is equipped with protective, appliances against gas attacks by foreign enemies: for Russia sees its two centres, Leningrad and Moscow, threatened by post-war development with aeroplanes and believes that a military conflict with the capitalist European states, probably supported by America, is inevitable sooner or later. She consequently fears an aero-chemical attack, to ward off which the Russian Government is taking greater precautions than ever have been taken by any state in the world. MASKS FOR CIVILIANS The civilian population is evidently to be equipped with an older type of mask, probably the Selinski-Kum- ant mask, which is no longer considered adequate for the army. The inhabitants of Moscow, Leningrad and other large cities are at present being equipped with the older model. The price per mask is 8 rubles, which THE BISECTOR SUPPLEMENT Page Five does not have to be paid in cash, it is simply added to taxes and may be paid in instalments. Gas masks today are considered a household necessity in Russia. As soon as all the inhabitants of a house are in possession of the prescribed appliances a government official appears to give instructions for their use. Some time ago, Professor Pavlov pointed out that the protection of individuals against gas is insufficient and that the state has the duty to protect the entire civilian population in the same way as the soldiers at the front are protected. Professor Pavlov elaborated his suggestion by advocating a system which would permit working men and other inhabitants to remain in their quarters, even in zones poisoned by mustard gas, by creating shelters that could not be penetrated by the gas. Elaborating on Pavlov's theories, Koshevnikov makes still greater demands. He wants protection of residences against gas attacks and the construction of subterranean district shelters equipped with artificial suns, but he considers even these measures insufficient. CITIES OF THE FUTURE According to his ideas, cities in the future will have .to be constructed along new lines which must be laid down and developed in conjunction with the military authorities. His plan comprises wide streets running in the general direction of the wind, small, square houses, low buildings, many public squares, parks and lakes and absolute prohibition of American building methods, that is of the erection of skyscrapers. Old buildings that are destroyed by fire or . torn down must not be reconstructed and thickly populated districts with narrow streets are to be destroyed as far as possible. His most urgent demands are the construction of subterranean food magazines, power stations and hospi tals and the building of gas-tight automobiles and railroad cars for the transportation of the civilian population in case of an attack. EFFECT ABROAD That these suggestions are well considered plans and not fanciful ideas of a few cranks is shown by the fact that the experts of other European states have seriously begun to study the -subject. After a German - discussion of the Russian suggestions by Dr. Hassilan had been published, the military press of France, Britain and Italy took up the matter. There is no doubt that in all these countries practical tests are in progress in the direction pointed out by the Russians. The sugg-estion has already been made to build subterranean moving picture theatres, which can be made gas-tight in a moment and turned into district shelters. While no definite information is obtainable, it may well be assumed that the successes obtained are being- kept secret. It has become known, however, that the French Government has ordered 15,000,000 gas masks for the protection of the civilian population. These masks are to be furnished before 1928. Russia evidently already has progressed beyond the stage of preliminary experiments. Eyewitnesses report that in all Russian cities manoeuvres for the public are arranged every Sunday on the military training and sporting fields. The gas attack always plays the principal role in these manoeuvres. The spectators are invited to put on their masks and enter gas-filled chambers to test the appliances. School children, conducted by their teachers, appear in gas masks, and whole battalions of women and girls in sporting costumes parade with rifles and gas masks. The construction of the shelters advocated by Pavlov has been started everywhere. From the "Vancouver Daily Province" of December 18th, 1927. Page Six THE BISECTOR SUPPLEMENT Anglo Catholics 62? Rome "ANGLO-CATHOLIC VIEW ON PRAYER BOOK REVISION." By Rev. Wiiberforce Cooper, M.A. "Vancouver Province, Feb. 5, 1928" REJOINDER By L. Kentish-Rankin, M.A. The ex-Cathedra effusion of the: Rev W. Cooper, criticising a lecture on the Prayer Book by Rev,.Mr. Williams, of W'esley Church, and profes- - sedly written "in the interest of truth and justice" confirms the adage that "Truth is stranger than fiction." From "behind the scenes" he offers to give the public "the facts." He starts badly in saying: (a) "The matter is one in which neither Mr. Williams nor 'his associates' is in any way concerned;" and he ends on an equally false note in stating "the measure was rejected by a mass of- people who had no sort of connection with the Church of England" nor "any logical right to vote upon it." The C. of E., as embodying "the Protestant Religion established by Law," is an integral part of the. Constitution, whence the Supremacy of King and Parliament in Church government, doctrine and discipline. It is a National Church, M.P.'s and parishioners have not only logical but legal connection with the Church and the right to vote in Parliament on matters affecting it. All M.P.'s—Ag-- nostic, Atheist, Bolshevik, Catholic, Jew, Jesuit, Hindu, Christian Scientists, Spiritists, Theosophists, have this right. Every member of the Empire of the World is concerned in a national institution which preserves "truth and justice, religion and piety" against an alien corporation ' stereotyped in reaction, superstition and despotism. Even the "Church Review" (April, 1889) said: "We would much rather trust to the decision of the Bench of Judges than to that of the Bishops." The C. of E- is not yet the pocket borough nor the trade union which an unspiritual "Spirit ualty" aims to make it. It is surprising that Mr. Cooper is so ill-informed upon this point. He omits to state that Sir H. Slesser is a member of the English Church Union (E.C.U.) ; while G. Lansbury, who also voted for the measure, is a Thed- sophist and a Communist. Archbishop Davidson, in moving the P. B, R. Measure on December ■ 12th declared: "Every member of this House' has, in my view, his absolute - RIGHT to VOTE freely upon a matter of this.kind; and it would be impertinence on,my part to suggest anything else." Is it less'such on Mr. Cooper's part ? Anyone familiar with the "Catholic Revival" or Anglo-Catholic conspiracy knows that its members while at first professing deference to authority,—that of "primitive practice," of "general consent (Quod semper, etc."), of the Bishops, of the King's (Queen's) Courts,—have later repudiated all authority but their own "private judgment" and have become a law unto themselves ; the movement now being a cynically lawless, (anarchical, "go as you please" revolt, defiant of all- authority, of all rights but their own self-will. As deposed Lord Halifax .on June 27, 1889: "What has -the Church to do with'Acts of Parliament . . . ? If Acts of Parliament and Secular Tribunals interfere with the Church's Doctrine and Ritual such in- terference will be disregarded in the future as in the past." Lord Chief Justice Cockburn declared (March 8, 1879) : "As an institution endowed and maintained by the State the Church exists for the benefit of the LAITY. One of their most sacred rights is infringed when driven to abandon their churches by a ritual which is not that of the Church." The British people do not admit the Anglo-Catholic claims that (1) "Our Church is the English body of Bishops and Priests." (Church and World, p. 66) ; (2) "Convocation" reformed "would be a true Church of England . . ' representing the Spiritualty . . (!) (E. L. Blenkifisopp "Church Reform," 1'873, p. 66) ; nor (3) "The Catholic Church has never permitted the Laity to have a voice in determining the Articles of the Faith, or in settling the -Discipline of the Church . . . these are rights conferred upon the Apostles and their successors" (?) "the bishops and priests." ("Church Review," Dec. 4, 1885) Which means, as said the Rev. Luke Rivington,: "The only office of the Laity is to listen and obey." If Mr. Cooper can substantiate these assertions he would be worthy of the Papal chair. This disfranchisement and excommunication of the Laity is sheer usurpation, as the Establishment includes Laity de jure and de facto, as per Articles XIX and XXII. It is also un- scriptural,' Apostolic teaching being "We preach not ourselves, but ourselves your SERVANTS," a precedent followed in Article XXIII. Under Art; XIX. the churchmanship of Anglo-Catholic clerics might well be challenged, for they are not "faithful men," but disloyal, heretical as to the formularies, practice and law of of the National Church, schismatical as causing divisions and seeking reunion with the Roman ' and Greek Courts, disobeying the Bishops and churches, and rebellious, as denying the Royal Supremacy,, defying the breaking their Ordination pledges.- , Will Mr. Cooper tell us by what "right," civil- or religious, "Catholic" (International) churchmen take the pay of a Protestant National Church and teach Romish doctrine? Also what "end" proposed by our Lord justifies the use of such "Means?" Anglo-Catholics tell us they are "Successors of the Apostles." If so it can only be of Peter—rebuked by Christ as "Satan" (Mark B: 33)— who thrice denied his Lord; or Judas, who betrayed Him with' a kiss, and that for money. Even these weaklings repented ; but I have never heard of an Anglo-Catholic doing so, except and until he had "gone over" to Rome, repented and come back. (b) "Anglo-Catholic progress" has met with "opposition amounting to persecution," also "misrepresentation." Were this true, he should not complain, since his model, Rome, is a conscientious advocate of persecu- . tion; its Bishops swearing to persecute heretics, the Inquisition and several sodalities existing for that purpose, and its recognized theologians acclaiming it today. No "misrepresentation" of Angio-Catholicism cam equal its misrepresentation of Christianity as revealed in Scripture and as set forth in the C. of E's formularies. Pusey, Newman, H. Froude, Keble, W. G. Ward, etc., habitually and designedly practised misrepresentation, "development" of doctrine, "economy" or reserve in speaking, as propaganda tactics. The "truth" is that, like Ishmael and Hagar, the Anglo- Catholics have persecuted the legal Protestant tenants of the Establishment. Moreover they approved and still approve of "persecution." In 1863 Dr. Pusey said: "Prosecution is not persecution. It would be an evil day when it should be recognized that to appeal to . . .justice is to contravene truth and justice." So the "Church Review" (Feb. 21, 1863, p' 183):— "Dark will be the gloom . . . when there shall not be . . . any who will have the moral courage to bring before the Courts . . . those who are en- , gaged in poisoning the' streams of religious knowledge- at their very fountain head." Again, (June 1861, p. 103) : "How can a Bishop be 'ready' (as he is under so solemn a vow to be) 'to banish and drive away all erroneous doctrine contrary to God's Word' if be will not use the means which the Law provides for making an example of a disobedient Cleric" —(Sept. 1861. p. 166) : "of those who have so evidently falsified the solemn professions of faith which they severally made when admitted to Holy Orders?" (June 1861. p. 103): "To silence the teacher of heresy is the plain duty of the Church's govern- I urs-" (Jan. 31, 18-63, p. 113). Even the E.C.U. declared: "The desire of the Union is to defend the Ritual law of the C. of E. The only method of ascertaining it must be found In the Courts of Law:" (Circular, Dec. 1866, p. 256-). "Whatever the Courts of Law should decide the Union would of course be bound by." (ibid p. 11). In May, 1869 the E.C.U. Council offered the Archbishop of York £500 toward the prosecution of Rev. C Voysey, thus admitting the principle of prosecution and the authority of the Courts in spiritual matters. Since that day the Clerics have defied the Bishops, disobeyed the ascertained Law and denounced the Courts in unstinted terms; while the Bishops-have vetoed prosecutions—"the rule established being whether it would be good for the Church (!) that the prosecutor should have the chance of getting a judgment" (Church Times) ; "The office of a Bishop being to protect his clergy." (Bp. Stubbs, Oct. 1886)! (c) "Anglo-Catholics do NOT advocate (a) a repudiation of the Reformation, and (b) a return to the doctrines . .. and the practices of Rome." This is indeed stranger than fiction," for (a) Anglo-Catholicism by its leading authorities has declared: "It hates the Reformation and the Reformers more and more;" "we must recede more and more from the principles of the Reformation;" "it utterly rejects and anathematizes the principles of Protestantism as a heresy;" "as it begins with the utter repudiation of Protestantism, so it will stop at nothing short of the restoration of unity throughout Catholic Christendom ;" "the Reformers destroyed the Worship of God and set up the Abomination of Desolation in its place;" "they were a lot of unscrupulous cutthroats ;" "a set of miscreants who carried their diabolical schemes through by wholesale murder and sacrilege ;" "our OBJECT is unprotest- ■antize the National Church ;" "we are contending for the extirpation of Pro testant opinions and practices within the Church and throughout all England." (This School claims to be 'Catholic' because they reject Protestantism." (Cardinal Manning, "Essays on Religion.") (b) This statement involuntarily recalls W. G. Ward's advice: "Make yourself clear that you are justified in deception, then lie like a trooper" (!) "If Catholicism is ever to regain possession of the Nation, it must be over the ruins of the Establishment;" (Westminster Gazette, R.C.)—"It is only through the English Church itself that England can be catholicized. We have a Church to unite with yours; to maintain the contrary would be to give the lie to the central principle and motive of the whole movement. The centre from which all our efforts radiate . .'.. is the English Church Union, which is the main director and stay of the whole movement. The work now going on in England is a carefully organized attempt to bring our Church and Country up to the full standard of Catholic Faith and practice and eventually to plead for her union with you. We are one with you in Faith and have a common foe to fight." ("Union Review," 1867, pp. 410-12). "Our whole object is to restore the C. of E' to what she was before the Reformation." (Rev. G. Nugee). Cardinal Manning, Mons. Capel, Father H. Benson, and others have all said the Anglo-Catholics are doing Rome's work better than she could do it. The Tablet considered "Ritualism the most powerful propaganda for the (R.C.) Church which England has yet seen." (Jan. 1, 1881). Essays on Religion (1867) avowed: "The vision we have had has been that of the wealthy Established Church of England . ■ . re-entering in one great body the one Catholic family." (p. 95). Church Times: "The final aim . . . is the Reunion of Christendom and the absorption of Dissent within the Church." (To be continued) THE BISECTOR Page Seventeen (Jihe Ifsertar REV. DUNCAN McDOUGALL, M.A., Editor Vol. IV., No. 2 Feb.-Mar., 1928 Subscription Rate: $1.00 per Year Order THE BISECTOR sent to you by the year and thus avoid miscing any issue. Send Subscriptions to: Mr. James Craig, Business Mgr. 309 Cordova St. W., Vancouver, B. C. Phone Sey. 132 See Subscription Form Inside of Back Cover WILL ARMAGEDDON BEGIN IN 1928? III. The Nature of Armageddon, and How it will Begin. The pouring out of the six vials which have already been fulfilled, although understood by the wise in heart as manifestations ev the wrath of God, have followed what appeared to be the natural course of events. There was no appearance, of anything miraculous or supernatural, nothing that excluded human agency. Reason, indeed, would seem to suggest during the agony of the Great War, that if there were in heaven a loving Heavenly Father ruling over the affiairs of the sons of men, He would never allow such carnage unless He were moved to wrath against the world. But no door in heaven was visibly opened, no voice spoke audibly from heaven, nothing happened to prevent even the men who were suffering from blaspheming the God of heaven, or denying His existence. The pouring out of the seventh vial may be expected to follow the same course as the other six. The three unclean spirits like frogs, those spirits o'f devils working miracles who are to delude and deceive all nations, are not out telling the world that they are devils. The great world movements which they have initiated, and which are heading up towards Armageddon, are following what appears to be the natural order of things. Only the watchmen who can answer the question "What of the night'!" are able to discern the fact that this particular "mystery of iniquity doth already work." The text indicates that the final catastrophe will strike the world with startling suddenness, "as a thief." This is in accordance with our Lord's warning—"When they shall say 'Peace and safety,' then sudden destruction cometh upon them .... and they shall not escape." It is noteworthy that it is the leaders in these demon- controlled movements—the soviet government of Russia, the papal see, and the demon-led movements designated by the false prophet— who are most forward in saying "Peace and safety," prime movers in urging disarmament jjgSm all the governments of Christendom. The measure in which they shall accomplish their purpose to, their own satisfaction, may be taken as an indication of the nearness of the "sudden destruction." It should be noted by all Christians that Armageudon, when it does begin, will be something entirely different from what the nations and their governments have been preparing for. Armaments accumulated b'y any nation or government will not avail it in that day. No nation, mo matter how .well armed against attack by other nations, can possibly escape from its share of the wrath of God Almighty. For this will not be a battle of one nation against another, or of one league of nations against another. It is to be the battle of the Great Day of God Page Eighteen THE Bisector Almigbty. And it is a solemn fact that as the Germans before the Great War were said to have been drinking toasts to "The Day," so each of the parties to the coming conflict is looking forward to what they each conceive to be their Day. Each of the three devil-controlled movements is bracing itself, consciously or unconsciously, for The Day when it can throw down an open challenge, directly or indirectly, to God Almighty. And God Himself also has His plans prepared for The Day. The bolshe- vist, communist, atheist movement is planning its attack on Capital, or on the "capitalistic system," including therein all who defend ownership of property, the sanctity of the family, and in a word all the rules that govern life in accordance with the Ten Commandments. It is laying its plans for The Day when it can strike simultaneously in every city in the civilised world. Its "World Revolution" is intended to eliminate | Capital by a wholesale murder of ""capitalists" everywhere; and as itaregards the Christian Church as theNEQainstay of the "capitalistic system," 8-r in other words, the protector of property rights, its attack is intended to be directed also against the Church and all who profess the Christian religion. The Romish hierarchy is planning the extirpation of "heresy" by the extermination of the "heretics." It also is looking forward to The Day when it can repeat the Massacre of St. Bartholomew on a world-wide scale, when it can restore the Unity of the Church by a wholesale murder of all Who persist In remaining outside of its pale. It has never repented of its murders any more than of its fornications, and when its plans are complete for striking simultaneously in every quarter of the globe, it hopes once more to "wade through slaughter to the Throne" of spiritual and tem poral supremacy over the world. The third power, the spurious evangelism of the false prophet favourable to the pretensions of Rome, though it may for the time being think itself incapable of harbouring even a thought of murder in its heart, will probably become so incensed at what it conceives to be the "narrowness" and "bigotry" of God's true and faithful servants, who refuse to follow it in its God-dishonouring career, that it also will consider that in wiping them off the face of the eartb it will be doing God service. These three will in all probability strike almost at the same moment. It is impossible to tell Which will open the ball, but the moment Communism strikes ai Capital, Romanism will deem the time opportune for striking the long-awaited blow at Protestantism!; or, if Rome, should strike first. Communism will at once decide that the hour has come for carrying out its plans. And there will immediately be a tremendous cleavage in the ranks of Protestantism itself, the followers of the false prophet joining with the other two in their attack on tne true followers of Christ. It wouJd seem as if the followers of Christ would have about the same chance as a fly on an anvil, before such a combined onslaught as this. But the enemies are not fighting against men, but against God. That is the peculiarity of Armageddon. The embattled hosts are not bent so much upon destroying any one nation, as they are upon obliterating from the earth the knowledge of the true God. Statesmen might have some hope of making war a thing of" the past, if they had only to consider the causes that might lead to war as between ome government and another; but when within each nation there are men THE BISECTOR Page Nineteeii plotting for the destruction of their fellow-citizens, the opening of the flood-gates of such insanity will reduce all governments to utter helplessness; and the best statesmen of today know it. They are more afraid of a rising of the "reds" than of any hypothetical war scare as between one nation and another. Armageddon is given as the name of the place where the final conflict is to take place. This is usually taken to mean literally "the Hill of Megiddo," where king Josiah was slain by Pharaoh- Necho of Egypt. It is not impossible that there may be a gathering in the vicinity of Jerusalem such as some are looking for, but in view of the symbolic use of place names throughout this Book, I would judge it unsafe to lay very much stress upon the literal meaning of the name. As Babylon, Jerusalem, Sodom, and Egypt have in the Apocalypse a symbolic meaning, it would be well to look at what the metaphorical interpretation of Armageddon might convey to the Christian. The battle of Megiddo was the darkest day in the history of Israel. Josiah was the last God-fearing- king of Judah, and he lost his life through meddling in a quarrel that did not belong to him. Assyria—forerunner of Babylon and prototype of the modern Babylon —had taken away into captivity ten of the tribes of Israel, and Josiah had no excuse for going out of his way to show friendship to such a power. The king of Egypt —a heathen power and probably & type of modern communism— believed that he had a Divine commission to go up to Euphrates to war against Assyria. Josiah's interference turned this war between two great powers into a three-cornered fight—type of the final Armageddon—with disastrous results for Josiah hjmsejf, Necho told him plainly—"What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I have come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forebear thee from meddling with God, who is with me. that He destroy thee not." (II Chron. 35: 21). The ostensible quarrel of communism is not with the real teaching and example of Jesus Christ: it is with a spurious form of Christianity which has led the bulk of Christendom into captivity, and which under the name of religion promotes poverty and ignorance among the laity, while its clergy revel in luxury and loose living. The true Christian might well leave these two to settle their quarrel between themselves, following the advice of Isaiah (ch. 26:20) "Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast." The divinely taught followers of the Lamb will be hidden as it were in the hollow of His Hand: their very poverty and insignificance will secure them to a large extent from molestation. But those who are misled by the "false prophet" will take up arms in defence of "the Church," to their own confusion. The seventh vial is to be poured out into the AIR. This is the first mention we have in Scripture of any judgment of God upon the air, and it is one of the most significant words in the whole Bible, were it only as an evidence of Divine Inspiration. Only within the last twenty years or so has war in the air become possible. For eighteen centuries after the time of the Apostles such a thing was not even dreamed of. But what rapid strides have been made in these last days towards the fulfilment of this prophecy! The devil is called Page Twenty THE BISECTOR in Scripture "the prince of the power of the air;" but what the ■ power of the air was, or how helpless the human race was against it, was utterly unknown and un- guessed till within the last generation. Now, with airplanes, radio, television, ultraviolet rays, poison gasses, disease germs, hypnotism, telepathy, and other mysterious' influences invisible to the human eye, coming for the first time under the control of man, the stage is being set for the conflict in which such forces will be brought into play as would, except for the Divine restraint—the shortening of the days—speedily exterminate the whole human race. The pouring out of the vial will lead — after some preliminary "thunders and lightnings," i.e., fulminations and anathemas from Rqme and elsewhere — to "an earthquke," that is, a World Revolution, resolving itself, as we have seen, into a three-cornered fight—"the city (Christendom as a whole) was divided into three parts," and this again will lead to the coifepse of all governments-— "the Cities of, the nations fell," then, on a world-wide scale, will come'God's judgment on the Romish apostasy — "great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath." The scenes of the French Revolution will toe enacted over again. Paris, whose streets ran with blood as the Protestants were murdered on St. Bartholomew's Day in 1572, witnessed, after an interval of more than two hundred years, the very same scenes when the oppressed and torutalised people rose and turned their insane fury upon the leaders of Church and State- Rome then drank from the same cup which she had formerly poured out for others. In Armageddon, in the same way, the fury of demon-pos sessed men will work out the purposes of the Almighty, and the ec-^ clesiastical system in which is found the blood of saints, and of prophets, and of all that were slain upon the earth, will wring 'out the bitter dregs of the cup of the Divine wrath; and then, "immediately after the tribulation of those days, shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven, when He shall come to gather together His saints and to set up His kingdom. ( Matt. 24:29-31). NEW STYLES IN WEDDINGS (Continued from page 16) * THE BISECTOR Page Twenty-one rag to the "Victoria Daily Times," in the Crystal Gardens at Victoria, B. C, when some two thousand spectators filled the great ball room eager to see the unique ceremony. In place of the customary decorations, the Fiery Cross, klan altar and Union Jack occupied the place of honour, the ceremony being performed by an ordained klansman. .Following the ceremony a banquet was held in the large banquet hall of the Garden, Rev. Dr. Clem Davies presiding as toast- master, when, following the King, toasts were given to the Imperial Council of the Klan and the guests of the order. The society columns of the press are spared the task of describing the gowns of the ladies in attendance at such ceremonies, the white robe of the order being worn by all taking part. H. DONNAN Fairview Florist 2604 GRAJTVIL.LB ST. BAY. 532 Cut Flowers-—Seeds—Plants, Etc. Specialties: Wedding Bouquets, Funeral . . rjesig-ns, Wreaths and - Sprays. WHO ARE THE CELTS? ARE THEY 'PART OF THE LOST TEN TRIBES? : By THE EDITOR IX. What Became of the Ten Tribes? Shepherds or Herdsmen (Continued) I cannct claim to be the first to identify the Hycsos or Shenherd Kinq-s of Egypt and the Scythians or Succothians as being ,one and the same race. As far back •>'"- the year 1816, George Stanley Paher, who enjoyed no small retmtatioi for learning in his day, published in London in three volumes "The Origin of Pagan Idolatry." in which he deals with this remarkable race. But, with singular perversity, he. makes' them out to be. th'e descendants of Cushthe son of Ham, conceiving the ^urse oro- nounced upon Ham, in the ninth chapter of Genesis to be limited to the posterity of Canaan, while b" confers the sceptre of the world on the warlike posterity of Cush... Careful students either of the Bible or of ethnolo"-v will not be inclined to agree with him in this. And so, if the race whose prowess he describes in such; sweeping terms is all of one stock.; then whether the reader follows the modern ethnologists in regarding them as the family of Janhet. or agrees with me in considering them to be of Semitic and Hebrew descent, he will at-least take excerption to Faber's classification of them as the descendants of Ham. Faber holds that "in Africa they occupied the whole country from the Thebais to the source of the Nile and Mountains of the Moon, as well as the land of Egyot, which was subjugated by a tribe of pastoral Cushim from Unoer India and Ethiooia. In Asia their rule stretched from the banks of the Indus to the Mediterranean Sea; while, migrating northwards, thev covered Touran (Tartarv) with an unmixed race, under the name of Souths'of Scyths. These we-re the Celtn-Scuths of the West, and the Indo-Scuths of the East." i —-"This eMerrvrisinq- neonle. who bv a singular fate, hsve ever been, at different oeriods, the enrrunters and the reformers, the disturbers and the civilisers. of the worjw were known by various names, either-general to the whole, or oar- ticular to certain divisions. They were called Souths Chusas. Cha- sas. Cisseans. Cosseans, Ooths, Ghauts, and Goths, from their ereat ancestor Cush; whose name they pronounced Cusha, Chusa, Ghoda. Chasa, Chasya. or Cas- sius. Thev were stvled Palli. Bali, Bhils, Philistim. Balistim, Bolgs, or Belgae, from their occupation; for the term denotes sheoherds. And they were partiallv denominated Phanakim or Phoenicians, and Huc-ifeos or Shepherd-kings, from their claiming to be a roval race; Sacas, Sacras, Sacasens, Sa- chim, Suchim, Saxe, or Saxons, from their god Saca or Sacya: Budins or Wudins, from their end Buddha or Woden; Teuts or Teutons, from their god Tuet or Taut; and Germans or Sarmans, from their god Saman or Sarman. and bis ministers the Samsneans or Sfrmaneans or Germansnns, as they are indifferently called according to a varied pronunciation of the same word." From this remarkable, effusion, Page Twenty-two THE BISECTOR we may select a few pomfs to be writer resognises this unique race —whoever they are—as "the corrupters and the reformers, the disturbers and the civilisers, of the world." It appears to me unthinkable, from a Scriptural point of view, that this distinction should belong to the descendants of Ham. Faber seems to have been misled by the fact that the original builder of Babylon was Nimrod, who of course was of the family of Ham; but from the very dawn of history the city and province of Babylon are found in the hands of the Chaldeans, who, whether they derived their name, as I suggested in an earlier chapter, from Peleg, or as Josephus holds, from Arphaxad the eldest son of Shem—whence the Hebrew form Chas.lim—were undoubtedly of Semitij origin. I hav-a already dealt with ihe derivation of. the name Souths and its allied foirps; I consider that Faber is entirely astray on this point. It came as a nleasant surprise to me, however, to find that he had hit upon what I had long regarded as the correct derivation of the name BM't or Belga".. w:th which I shall deal presently; Celtic writers appear to have been completely at sea as to the meaning /of this term, and I have watched in vain for years for any one of them to suggest that it denoted shepherd's. It may be equally gratifying to British-Israelites to find that this scholar, who is anything but a, British-Israelite himself, while he derives the name Bolgs from the occupation of this race, derives Saxon and its allied terms from the name of their god Sacya, for this race, like many others, lapsed into polytheism through a form of ancestor- worship, a deification of its sainls and heroes; and the admission that Sacya was one of their gods is equivalent to an admission that he was one of the ancestors of the race, which is not far from an admission that they are the children of Isaac. If he had not blindly accepted the current derivation of Hycsos, borrowed from Man- etho, he might have guessed that it came from the same source. To return then to the name Shepherds or Herdsmen as a probable appellation of the Ten Tribes: I would first of all dismiss the name Philistim or Palistim with its derivatives, which Faber has mentioned in the same class with Bolgs or Belgae, as meaning shepherds. The Philistines undoubtedly were shepherds to some extent; but although Faber's statement has been repeated by rote by many scientists and pseudo-scientists since his time, 1 am not aware that there is any evidence that the name "Philistim" ever had the meaning of "shepherds." The Philistines were a Hamitic race, and although there may be a wide divergence of opinion as to whether the Bolgs or Belgae were of Semitic or of Japhetic origin, there is pretty general agreement now that whatever they were, they were net Hamitic. My impression is that the names "Philistim" and "Belgae" have no connection with each other. If there is any connection, it must be of the remotest kind, The oldest name for a shepherd in the Hebrew language Is ro'eo Ison (a watcher of a flock); but ef this I do not find any trace in the later languages, unless we accept the British-Israel theory that the English word son is derived from tson, on the same analogy as the word kid (properly the young of a goat) which we so often hear used in modern English .- to denote a child. It is not a veiy far-fetched supposition that as an English mother uses the word kids or, more endearingly, THE BISECTOR Page Twenty-three Iambs, to denote her little ones, so the Hebrew mother may have used teen (flock) to signify her offspring. , But this opens up a field which I must resist the temptation to enter. The common name in Hebrew for larger cattle is baker. I remarked in a former chapter that the Celtic languages were more given to metathesis than any other language in Europe with the possible exception of Greek. The Hebrews also had quite a weakness in this direction. By metathesis bakar would naturally become barak, and the natural interchange of the liquids 1, in, r, would make this tend to become balak. Thus the change from bakar, cattle, to balak, toalag, babg, or bolg, follows rules which are familiar to every philologist. The word bolg was used by the people who applied it to them- sedves, in a way that showed plainly that it indicated their trade or occupation. Thus the Scythians or Succothians (tent- dwellers) who crossed to the western shore of the Black Sea referred to themselves as Bolgars, the suffix—ar—indicating a person whose trade was about bolg, The£e gave their nf.me to Bulgaria, and to the Balkans. They had no connection with the Sclavonic race who now inhabit Bulgaria, and who hay§ pome to be. known fn that way as "Bulgars " though the name, so far as the.y &re concerned, is a misnomer, When these same Bolgars from the Balkans migrated to the shores of Ireland, they introduced them- selves as Fir-Bolg (men of bolg) —the Gaelic fear, pi. fir (a man), akin to Latin vir, pi. viri, being the Sanskrit form which has travelled from the banks of the Euphrates to Scotland and Ireland without any change. Bolg in Gaelic has only one meaning; it means a skin inflated with air or gas; it is used of a windbag, or generally any distended skin. This has" led to some amusing surmises as to who the Fir Bolg were, and why they were so called. Mr. W. C. Mackenzie ("The Races of Ireland and Scotland") enumerates several theories to account for the name—Keat- ings' explanation that they had been enslaved by the Greeks and forced to carry clay in bags to make soil in barren places, and so were called "bag-men;;" another theory that on account of their size they were known as "paunch- bellies ;" and others even more extraordinary. He gives his own surmise that "bolg" mav have been used in a secondary sense to mean a bay or inlet, and that on account of their settling around the many bays on thcT'coast of Connaught they were known as "bay-men," the name being thus the equivalent of the Norse "viking." He leaves out of account the fact that the Fir-Bolg were so atiied long before they saw the coast of Ireland. The bays of Connaught cannot explain the name of Bulgaria or of the Balkans. The connection between the primary and the secondary meaning r.f the word bolg, though it seems to have eluded these searchers, is exceedingly simple. When the Ten Tribes went into the country of the Medes, and north Into Arme^ nia, and there took up their former occupation as herdsmen, they found a ready sale for the hides pf their cattle, which were valuable for one particular purpose. This is best described in the words of Mr. Bailhe Fraser. ("Mesopotamia -and Assyria"), when pictur- izing the great trade routes of Babylon when in the height of its glory: "But the commerce with Ar- Page Twenty-four THE BISECTOR THE BISECTOR Page Twenty-live menia was chiefly maintained by the river Euphrates on rafts of timber bound upon inflated hides, or in rude boats. These were loaded with wine and other produce of the country, and when they reached Babylon were sold, together with the commodities which they conveyed, the force of the stream rendering it impossible for them to return up the river. The owners, however, carefully preserved the skins, which were folded upon asses or mules, and carried back by land. This traffic is described as having been prosecuted to a groat extent." Here we see the skins of the cattle sewn up just as a goatskin is sewn up in the east today to be used as a waterbottle; but for a different purpose. From the care vwith which the skins were preserved, and carried back many hundreds trf miles by land, we may estimate the value put upon these prepared hicteS.v The size of a raft would be reckoned by the number of hides that went ihTxthe making of" it, each bolg or ^head of cattle forming a separate ""bsjkvrn or float. Thrs the transference ~>t the name bclr from the animal itself to the inflated hide was both easy and natural. It is probable that some of these Israelitish herdsmen were not content merely to dispose of the hides in their raw condition, but took in hand the dressing of them and building of the rafts with which this river commerce was carried on. Some of them again would go further—as there is seldom a boat-builder's family which does not produce at least one sailor—and set out upon the voyage to Babylon themselves. From what we know of the commercial instincts of the Jew, and his place in international trade, we might consider it not improbable that a great part of this river commerce fell into the hands of the Israelitish exiles, The hardy loggers who risk life and limb in navigating booms of logs through the rapids of our Canadian rivers, might well claim kinship with those Israelites who negotiated the rapids of the Euphrates on rafts of inflated hides. These were the true Fir-Bolg in the moaern Gaelic meaning of the word, and Mr. Mackenzie was nearer the truth than he knew in making it synonymous with the Norse "viking." The spirit of adventure ftitist h vo b° i strongly developed in thene Fir- Bolg, End when we read of tin Medes being awakened to national consciousness and encourage! to attack first Nineveh and then Babylon, almost simultaneously with a great movement of Scythians to the north of Media, we can guecs that the Fir-Bolg who carried on the trade up and down the Euphrates would be among the prime instigators and participants in such an attack. When the Scythians began to move westward through Europe, they came in contact with nations who did not understand the meaning of the word bolg. They then .found it necessary ' > translate the name Ealgars or Fir-Bolg into the language most commonly understood in Western Europe. From the Latin pecus, a head of cattle, these Herdsmen came to be called Pechts, or Picts, and Pecards or Picards. This word also has been grievously misunderstood. The controversies that have raged, around both the meaning of the word Pict and the identity of the Picts, are so intricate, and at the same time so interesting and important, that I must go into them in some detail. And yet a great part of these controversies might have been avoided had the disputants but recognised, as I hope to show, that in their various connotations Pict and Picard are but an exact translation of Bolgar or Fir-Bolg. (To Be Continued) The Douay Bible By "ULJDIA" 1 "Commander in Chief, 6. Q. G. A. Army of the Allies. 24th July, 1918 "New York Bible Society "The best preparation that you can give to an American soldier going into battle to sustain his magnificient ideal and his faith is certainly the Bible. F. FOCH, Marshal." The editor of the "Canadian Freeman" (R.C.) is very angry because the Prince of Wales did not present a Roman Catholic Bible to the Memorial Hall of the Peace Tower in the Parliament buildings at Ottawa, instead of a corrupt English version of the Word of God. In his wrath he says: "We cannot see why this attempt should be made to foist upon Canada a corrupt English version of the Word of God, and to have our government enshrine it as something sacred. A good percentage of the people of Canada are Catholics, and respect and venerate the true Bible as the Word of God: but they protest against our Parliament Buildings being used as a repository for a Bible which has been falsi1 fied by men." Now, after reading the above diatribe I am forced to come to the conclusion that the editor of the "Freeman," Roman catholic priest though he be, is culpably ignorant as to which of the two translations is the correct one; or, if he knows the truth, is deliberately attempting to mislead his readers. To prove this assertion it is not necessary to delve into Protestant authorities, because there is ample data to be had from Roman catholic sources; and seeing that we have unimpeachable evidence of this character, I embody some specimens of it in this article. And I challenge the editor of the "Freeman," after an unprejudiced reading of the authorities I am about to quote, to defend the abuses contained in the Douay Bible against the charges laid by leading divines in his own church. In regard to the King James version of the Scriptures, which is declared by the "Freeman" to be a corruption of the Bible, Rev. F. W. Faber, a leading Roman catholic of a past generation, has this to say: Roman Catholic Tribute "It lives in the ear like a music that can never be forgotten. Its felicities seem often to be almost things rather than words. It is part of the national mind, and the anchor of the national seriousness. The memory of the dead passes into it. The potent memories of childhood are stereotyped in its phrases. It is the representative of a man's best moments. All that there has been about him of soft and gentle and pure and penitent and good, speak to him forever out of his English Bible." (Editorial, Var-rouver "Sun" Aug. 13, 1921). That is the tribute of a Roman catholic priest -and an English gentleman to the King James version of the Scriptures; and it is not less true and striking than the following commendatory statement from the late Cardinal Gibbons to the editor of the Yale Review, written January 10th, 1920: "I am happy to see an interest taken in the Scriptures. Up to . seventy-five years ago the public men of our country seemed to have been saturated with the Bible. They were familiar with its contents, and quoted freely text after text. Among many others, Mr. Webster seemed to have at his fingers' ends the words of this inspired Book. I remember to have counted in the pleading of Mr. Webster, counsel in the Girard Will Case, no less than fourteen quotations from or allusions to Scripture. Apart from its inspirational character, the Bible still remains the one means of culture." One might infer from the late Cardinal's remarks that when the Protestant version of the Scriptures was good for a lawyer, it would be equal- .. a&e a. wuut^-BU w « BISECTOR ly good as a refining influence for some of our editors. Seeing that the editor of the "Freeman" appears to be so fearfully ignorant of the Roman catholic Bible, which meets with his respect and veneration, I will discuss four propositions with him, confining myself to Roman catholic authorities for proof. Here they are: 1. The Roman catholic Bible is misleading in its title "Douay." 2. ft is teeming with errors. 3. It has no authority of any value to a Romanist. 4. Any effort at revision will be a long time coming and "no end of a job." Title Misleading The Catholic Dictionary, second sedition, has the following: .."Douay Bible—A name commonly given to the translation of the Holy Scriptures current among English- speaking catholics. The name is misleading, for, 'as we shall presently see, the Bible wasvnot translated into English at Douay, and '-only part of it was published there, whilethe version now in use has been so seriously altered that it can scarcely be considered identical with that which first went by the name of the Douay Bible. "Dr. Challoner, who revised the Rheims and Douay text, made alterations so many and so considerable that he may really be considered the author of a new translation. Thus there have been two editions of the Old Testament, eight of the New, according to the original Douay and Rheims versions. This version comes to us with the recommendation of certain divines in the college and cathedral of Rheims and of the university - of Douay. It never had any episcopal imprimatur, much less any papal approbation." (The Catholic Dis- tionary, second edition, 1893, pp. 303, 304). Altered Beyond Recognition Cardinal Wiseman says: "To call it any longer the Douay or Rheimish is an abuse of terms. It has been altered and modified, till scarcely any verse remains as originally published." (Dublin Review, April, 1837, page 470). Wo End of a Job to Revise. Cardinal Gasquet, who is at the head of the Papal Commission for the Revision of the Vulgate, said at the Cambridge Roman Catholic Congress in July, 1920, that: "ft is no end of a job, and many a time we wish we had never had anything to do with it, but it is necessary Eor the honour of the Church." (Morning Post, July 20, 1920). Blunders and Bad Grammar. Father J. Herbert Williams says in the Roman catholic "Dublin Review" : "The Douay faithfully reproduces the blunders of the Vulgate, and adds .-to them as many, or more, blunders of its own." (Dublin Review, Jan. 1922, page 49). Father J. Freeland describes the Vulgate as:— "A monument of Vulgate L-atinity, of partly Hebrew, partly Greek idiom, and of bad grammar." (Catholic Times, Sept. 29, 1899). Dr. Cornelius Nary, Roman catholic priest of St. Michan's, Dublin, as early as 1718 wrote: ... "The language of the Douay Bible ; is so old, the words so obsolete, the orthography so bad, the translation so literal, that in a number of places it is unintelligible." (Tracts, Theological and Ecclesiastical, 1895, page 411; Longman & Co., London). Blunders Introduced by the Pope The author of "The Pope and the Council," "Janus," himself a Roman catholic, and one of the most learned men of his day, an associate of th'e late Lord Acton and the Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, has the following to say in. reference to the many pitfalls which have beset the various versions of the Bible at the hands of Roman catholics: "After the papal claim to Infallibility had taken a more definite shape at Rome, Sixtus V himself brought it again into jeopardy by his edition of THE BISECTOR Page Twenty-seven the Bible. The Council of Trent had pronounced St. Jerome's version authentic for the Western Church, but there was no authentic edition of the Latin Bible sanctioned by the Church. Sixtus V undertook to provide one, which appeared, garnished with the stereotyped forms of anathema and penal enactments. His Bull declared that this edition, corrected by his own hand, must be received and used by everybody as the only true and genuine one, under pain of excommunication, every change, even of a single word, being forbidden under anathema, "But it soon appeared that it was full of blunders, some two thousand of them introduced by the Pope himself. It was said the Bible of Sixtus V must be publicly prohibited. But Bellarmine advised that the peril Sixtus had brought the Church into should be hushed up as far as possible; all the copies were to be called in, and the corrected Bible printed anew, under the name of Sixtus V, with a-statement in the preface that the errors had crept in through the fault of the compositors and the carelessness of others. Bellarmine himself was commissioned to give circulation to these lies, to which the new Pope gave his name by composing the Preface. In his Autobiography this Jesuit and Cardinal congratulates himself on having thus requited Sixtus with good for evil; for the Pope had his great work on "Controversies" on the Index, because he had not maintained the direct, but only the indirect, dominion of the Pope over the whole world. And now followed a fresh mishap. The Autobiography, which was kept in the archives of the Roman Jesuits, got known in Rome through several transcripts. On this, Cardinal Azzolini urged that, as Bellarmine had insulted three Popes and exhibited two as liars, viz., Gregory Xf V and Clement VIII., his work should be suppressed and burnt, and the strictest secrecy inculcated about it." (The Pope and the Council," pp. 62, 63; Rev. J. J. Dollinger, D.D.). Absolute Downright Nonsense. Lord Braye describes the Douay version as "a bald and faulty translation," and adds: "The sacred text is transformed into absolute downright nonsense." ("The Present State of the Church 'of Rome in England," paragraph VI.). Lord Braye, needless to say, is a Roman catholic. When His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, presented a copy of the King James version of the Holy Scriptures to the people of Canada, no doubt he was cognizant of its value as a superior translation, and wished it to be accepted as such. The insincerity and hypocrisy of Romish attacks on the Authorized or any other version of the English Bible is evident from their opinion of their own translation. All nations are entitled to have the writings of th/*"" Apostles and Prophets given to them in their own language, which they can understand. The translations of the King James version,, gave to the English-speaking people a translation which has never Wen improved upon. Rome fears the English Bible, not because itjs,-a "corrupt" or a "falsified" translation, but because it gives to its readers the very teaching of the Apostles. Romish theologians admit that with all her pretended respect for the Word of God, and all her pretended infallibility, their Church neither can nor will give, to her people a translation which will enable them to read for themselves in plain English what the Apostles and Prophets have written. To their own people they admit the falsity and corruption of their own translation, and so discourage their followers from reading it, while they show undying hatred to any and every other translation. Verily, they have taken away the key of knowledge. IT PATS TO LOOK WESIX The most up-to-date Standard Barber Shop in the District. We cater to Men, Women and Children] BURRARD HOTEL BARBER SHOP Cordova St. at Homer Thos. Patterson, Prop. Page Twenty-eight the bisector THE BISECTOR Page Twenty-nine THE CURSE OF NARCOTICS POOLS AND CESS-POOLS THE CHRONOLOGY OF NARCOTIC PREVENTION TESTIMONY OF DAILY PRESS Continuing the current and local history of preventive activity engaged in combating the narcotic evil, as found in the daily journals. By A. J. ENGLAND With this article we propose to continue to enumerate the various cases which the local press records and which therefore might logically have been expected to result in a general understanding of the wide-spread character of the narcotic traffic. '--x,And yet we feel that if the facts weft; appreciated, indifference would end, and public opinion would compel immediate and perhaps drastic measures to secure control and eventual eliminationaxf the evil. For a brief nineadays the public learned something anuvdisplayed an interest in the traffic as ttlexramifica- tions were bared in the Partlow case,. fn this case, Frank and Dominic Marino, Dominic Christophi, Le Cay Gim, Wong Loy Fong, Lee Sing, a number of other Mongols, and Paul Hackett, a United States sea captain, were involved. A large battery of criminal lawyers was engaged, including Stuart Henderson, R. L. Maitland, A Dunbar Taylor and Gordon Wismer. J. N. Ellis appeared for the crown- The method by which the famous "Dynamite," the speed launch used by this group of peddlers, was acquired by them with the assistance of another prominent criminal lawyer often engaged in the defence of narcotic offenders, at one point promised to provide additional interest in the case. Current comment during the period the press was giving prominence to the case, was caustic enough. But how many persons, to-day, actually remember the sequel to the case, or know how it was disposed of? fn August (1927), one James Wal- dron was arrested in the joint known as the Panama Hotel, Victoria. Far back in the dim and dusty past, no doubt, this place was conducted as an hotel; now-a-days, however, it might be more properly and less delicately described. Such an occurrence would not, of course, have been impossible, especi- elly in a joint of this character—but one fails to note any comprehensive effort to progress from these petty peddlers to the operators of the pools —or better, cess-pools—which make their efforts possible. fn Toronto, the same month, one Louis Goldberg, a young doctor of .30 years, was arraigned for some 21 charges of violation of the Narcotic Act in some form or other. Later in the month it required a squad of 40 Federal Agents armed wit'JM:row-bars and axes to hew their way into Newark's Chinatown—and even with the preparation which the raid called for and the precautions taken to ensure success, $25,000.00 worth of opium, only was secured and all but 16 Mongols escaped the net. It was in this month (August), that that pattern among Mongolian Canadians—Lim Jim, came so prominently to the attention of business men in Vancouver as to move them, later, to petition a learned judge for leniency on his behalf—with only temporary success—thanks to a Court of Appeal. In September, in the middle of the month, the largest single seizure of narcotics recorded in the port of Honolulu was made. It was the third major seizure of the month. On the 2nd of September some $9,000.00 was seized, on the 10th some $36,000.00 worth. The haul from the 'Ginyu Maru," operated by the Japanese "Nippon Yusen Kaisha," included 384 tins of opium, valued at $174,000.00. ft will be remembered that such seizures involve a heavy fine, levied proportionately to the amount of narcotics seized, which is imposed on the owners of these vessels, and one may be pardoned for wondering whether they succeed in securing any considerable volume of legitimate freight from the sources which make use of them so steadily for illegitimate narcotic carrying, or whether they have a large wardrobs piled with many months of chanty, or whether ordinary ocean freight is not an exceedingly profitable business in view of the apparent nonchalance with which these frequent fines seem to be greeted. We do not remember having noticed any segregation of such fines on the Governmental reports, but having in mind the comparative frequency with which this sort of seizure is made at Pacific Ports, we are beginning to feel some little curiosity as to whether or not these fines are paid promptly, and are not accumulating somewhat in the manner in which "Dixie" state debts have done since the American Civil War Unless some of the admittedly brilliant lawyers who appear so consistently for the defence of the mongolian peddlers soon retire, we have some slight fear that they may succeed at last in finding enough loopholes in the Narcotic Act as to make of it a veritable sieve. Hence we speak guardedly when we say that unless some new interpretation is given, we shall have the pleasure of saying good-bye to some of the Mongolian peddlers who have been caught in the tattered nets of the law when we have ceased feeding them up at the public expense in some one or other of the great "hotels" which the state maintains for this purpose. Here's hoping, then, that when Wong Yuen.has "done his bit" at our expense, there will be nothing to prevent his journey to where the bones of his sacred ancestors rest—on a one-way ticket. Wong was of some little assistance to the authorities in securing the arrest of the infamous Lore Yip, and therefore will spend a little time living as he never lived in China—in our penitentiary—before sailing home. Towards the end of September, Jang Ming, who from some inexplicable source dug up the surname of "Phean," was intercepted in the ped- ling of opium at Nanaimo. in South Vancouver a few days later four Mongols were caught • "Smoking" at the Red Cedar Mills, and the next day it was recorded that Dr. Samuel Blumberger was involved through his transactions with Jack King, or Nostenoff, in which a couple of "shots" of morphine were exchanged for money and a couple of dresses. The doctor was censured. In the following month cani£, the Hamilton disclosures. It so .Vfappens that the writer was in that/dry in the month of October, and kn-ows the conditions complained <$f were by no means overstated. Young gsjffs of tender age, missing from heme, were found later, under the 'influence of drugs, in Wong Chan's Chinese Cafe at Port Colburne. Chan, of course, had disappeared. When one particular girl had recovered sufficiently she was able to remember that she had at least made the rounds in Brantford, Gait, Kitchener, St. Catherines, and Toronto. Some faint conception of her condition may be guessed when it is remembered that for five hours after being found she was unconscious and then she knew neither the day nor the date nor the month. This girl, mark you, was under 16 years of age. Fred Coates and his wife, of Hamilton, William Lenn and Wrong Mee- han (how curious are some of these monogloid names!) employees of the departed chan, were arrested. There has since been a great change >, in the personnel of the forces of law enforcement in Windsor, and it is to * be hoped that definite steps to curb the narcotic menace will speedily be taken. JS C T O R The relation of crime to narcoticism has been remarked. On October 11th, William Bonner, a pickpocket, led Toronto Police a merry dance and no mean race, including broad jumps (over hen coops) and high jumps (over fences and walls) before he was caught. When searched a "hypo" syringe was found On him. A day later Louis Goldberg's case was being disposed of. The doctor, whose age and case were referred to previously, had no idea how certain marked money could be found on the floor of his car after he had driven Victor Dinelli—an addict to whom he admitted furnishing morphine for self administration—a short distance. We are very surprised at the doctor. In these days of aerial progress it should have been perfectly obvious the fledgling medico that the money nttjst have flown into the car. BefoVf the month ended we were furnishetTvith more evidence of the utter unfitn«is.pf medical men to dispense narcotics except under the most rigid system of contt&L A certain Dr. D. W. Shield, of Toronto, who had practised in tha'sj'gpod city" for years and who was saiat®~ be a ohvsician of high standing, was fined $500.00 and costs on four counts of infringement of the narcotic act. Herb. Lennox acted as Shield's counsel, and called in as expert witnesses a couple of other medicos, to wit: Drs. W. D. Niddrie and J. S. Hart. For many moons, two years in fact, it had been a penal offence for medical men to supply drugs to an addict for self-administration. These two "experts" testified that they neither of them knew this—that they had received no notification of this from the various medical societies—one of them stating that he had personally enquired of several doctors, not one of whom knew of this two-year old enactment which so vitally concerned their profession. Another 'Cess-pool" was uncovered in this month down in peaceful Vermont. A wealthy Canadian (whose name is, of course, withheld—one ad vantage of wealth at least), had involved Oscar Mouvet, the proprietor of the famous Hotel Madeline of Paris and father, by the way, of the late Maurice, the internationally known dancer. The scheme was to purchase large stocks of Persian opium, ship it to Canada, and then smuggle it to the States. Some 750 lbs. of such poium was seized at St. Albans. Vermont, at the time. The wealthy Canadian is not. so far as we know at present. "Living in residence" provided. Returning to. Vancouver, we find early in November, that the Mongol Puock. aged 23 years, was apprehended for being in illegal possession of drugs. Down the Coast, San Francisco officers make a seizure of 10.000 cases of ooitim, valued at over $225,000,00, This cess-pool ripnled to Seattle and four-score Mongols were caught in the toils. It was about this time the Knomin- tang partv issued an edict prohibiting the smoking of opiuni; and. if recent reports are authentic, succeeded in— nothinar. __ Wakabavashi. the Tap. who is now serving his term of three vears. prior to deposition ""'*a a compatriot, a vonne waiter "-"ted Naksmura.. to assist him. sold 48 o""~°s at n-:ie and 16 ounces of morphine for $1600- Unfortunatebr for Wakabavashi, he sold the stuff to the wrone nartv. not recornizine the "Mounties :" and this fact out an end—for three years at leaot—to his business. These men were unauestioua.blv able to have disclosed the identitv of the 'hi°^her-iios" for.whom fhev operated, as well as the boat whicb had been the carrier of the caro-o of which the comparativelv small spizi11"e was a part and wer^ strnrio-Pr reriWma.nded pv Tndee Cayley for their failure to do so. An effort to anneal to Tnd^e Cav'eV rn^t a -Par more prnn^r receoti^" af his hind' +h-"i one addrecoort tn ]\yTn fus- tir° ^V A. Mn^dona1d in the race of T t«n T.'ni. -.s his comment evidences. Hesaid: "A jttuge who receives peti- I THE BISECTOR Page Thirty-one tions for leniency should, I think, advise the defence to submit them to the Minister of Justice at Ottawa, ft will be his responsibility, and not that of the Judge. This stricture, coming as it so happened a day or so after the petition tor Lim Jim had made such an effect on a judge in a superior court, evinced to our mind, a fine sense of justice and no little courage, and merits the recognition of all good citizens. Another group of yellow-men became entangled in those tattered nets of enforcement to which I have referred, toward the end of November. -Louie Tem earned three years for distributing, Young Kam, who pleaded leniency because he claimed to be supporting his parents in China, received a like sentence, while the maintenance of Vancouver's agencies for law enforcement was assisted by the fact that Lee Young, Chew, Gee Chang, and Lee Jong forfeited bail of $50.00 each when arrested for smoking opium in one of the many dens of Pender Street East end. Lee Sow, Ah Kok, and Lee .Sing, contributed $25.00 each to the cause for frequent- . ing this den and—incidentally-^for'- failing- to frequent the Policie'Court. Yong Kong, caught o . November 29th, was arfethes "Litterateur"—that is, he found the magazine a useful container for his morphine consignments. In December the impetus of the Christmas "Sniffing" and "Smoking" parties brought about an apparent increase of official notice. Jim Wilson was picked up in Point Grey with both cocaine and morphine for distribution. A vessel which had apparently been thoroughly searched while in Canadian waters, but without result, yielded 600, 5-tael tins at the first haul in Seattle, and produced $63,000.00 before she left the- Puget Sound port; indicating again, incidentally, what appears to be more or less a logical rule, that is, that while the Empress boats are the medium, largely, for the stuff which is intended for the Canadian Cess-pools, the Arntsfcan pools are generally enriched by the advent of the Blue Funnel liners. It might be well to notice, here, that efforts to secure the freedom of dope-peddlers by no means cease when sentence is pronounced—or while it is being served. As an instance of this, before November was ushered out, a writ of habeas corpus was refused by Chief Justice Hunter for the discharge of Yee Foo Dai. This man was convicted at Humboldt, Sask., and served six months at Prince Albert. Mr. Justice Morrison had previously refused a similar application. Efforts to prevent his deportation, however, continued to the last minute. Early in December an attack was made on the Narcotic Act by J. R. Nicholson, an associate of J. H. Russell. The attack was made in the case / of Lore Yip and Ichizo WakabayashV. The latter received his conge, it will be remembered, at the hands',©! Judge Cayley. Yip at the hands of Magistrate Findlay. H. S.,Wood acted as Crown Counsel, arvd it is refreshing to note that the attack failed, the act being- sustained. It is particularly gratifying that it should have been sustained in these two cases, for Lore Yip's record surely "stank to high heaven," and not as incense, while Wakabayashi in one case, with a motor truck as his cache, could deal in $7 000 consignment, and ba ream in smaller lots of a mere $1600 value with the R.C.M.P. Magistrate Shaw sent Lee Go and Gulan Mohammed down for two vears each on December 9th and Mr. Fong and Joe Hung were fined $200.00 each and elven 6 months hard labour for beine in possession of opium in the court presided over by Magistrate Beaver-Potts of Nanaimo. The Highland Church 400 Block. Eleventh Ave. F. Rev. Duncan McDnuraJI. M.A. P-AHUJO: H:00 A.M. AND 7:30 P.M. 3:00 p.m.—Bible Studies of Evangelical versi's Romish doctrine. These Studies Will Interest Ton Page Thirty-two THE BISECTOR THE POLICE MIX-UP (Continued from Page 8) of others discounting agreements for sale, transactions which are usually credited to Jewish money-lenders, and which require considerable sums of ready cash; of others keeping a bank account in Seattle or somewhere else across the line; well, we must conclude that they get a windfall from some source in addition to their regular salary. The magnificent mansion purchased by Detective Imlah shortly before his dismissal was not the only one that gave rise to caustic comment. The files of the daily press bear witness to the fact that when Inspector McLaughlin went away on holiday and Deputy Chief Leather- V. dale took over his duties, a vigorous "^series of raids was at once begun on tke^ Chinese gambling dens, which woufdNhave closed them all up in a few weeks; but signals of distress were sent 6iit_ from Chinatown, and Inspector McLaughlin hurried back to his post without waiting to finish his holiday. The raids W« at once stopped, and scarcely a singfeugsfsfet ing den has been closed from that day to this. This fact, so eloquent as to conditions in. one department at least, has been drawn attention to more than once in the press. We are informed in this connection that when Inspector McLaughlin moved out to his new mansion on Wolfe Avenue, the district was invaded by swarms of Chinamen looking for his house. Day after day thev came in a steady stream, until people in the neighborhood reckoned that every denizen of Chinatown had been made acquainted with the house. People could not help asking what business all these Chinese had with the Inspector at his private residence. These are among the things that would bear looking into. Mayor Taylor says the public are satisfied. We say the public are not satisfied, and it would say very little for their moral calibre if they were satisfied. They know that there is corruption in high places, and the Police Commission cannot but be aware of it. Is the solution, then, to hand over police administration to the Provincial Police? No, certainly not. The record of the Provincial Police will be looked into in another article, and if will be seen that they have no stone to throw at our city police force. In several places in the province their reputation has been completely blasted, and it will take a great deal more than the lame explanations given by the Attorney-General on the floor of the legislature to rehabilitate them in public esteem or confidence. No, the people of Vancouver must do their own house-cleaning, and they must begin at the top, and see to it. when another election comes round, that they grasp the opportunity—the only chance they have—of putting trustworthy men at the head of affairs. APOSTOLIC OR APOSTATE The Toronto "Sentinel," organ of the Orange Order, in common with other newspapers which have printed •Pope Pius IX's encyclical against Church"Union "conversations." quotes the Pope's "ivitation to the heretics thus: "Then, to the apostolic see which was placed in this city that the prince apostles, Peter and Paul, consecrated with their blood, to the apostolic see which is the root and matrix of the Catholic Church, may the dissident sons return." 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