ALBERTA SOCIAL CREDIT

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 84, 6 October 1938, Page 27

ALBERTA SOCIAL CREDIT

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Will you please give the other side of the Alberta Social Credit situation a hearing in your, columns? I write authoritatively on the subject though not officially for the movement. In the first place the Province of Alberta elected a Government to implement Social Credit, but it has not been allowed to do so for a reason that will be stated; so that Major Douglas's statement is not one repudiating Premier Aberhart but his statement of a regrettable fact and no aspersions against him or any of his colleagues. To say that Social Credit has failed in Alberta is a perversion of fact because nowhere for the last 150 years have the creation and control of credit and currency been allowed but of the hands of an oligarchy of international financiers. A thing that has never been tried cannot be said to have failed. To the extent that anywhere people acting or voting in association have succeeded in obtaining the results they have demanded —be it even in getting mended a hole in the road-7-their social credit will have obtained. Here in Alberta they demanded 25 dollars a month to buy that province's food,

clothing,* and building material which is being restricted in production and destroyed for lack of that claim to it. Now the reason why the Government of Alberta has not been allowed to implement its policy of credit and currency control is that any issuance of same would be the means (and the only means possible) of enabling the people to repay their present debt to the said financial oligarchy which, being interest-bearing, is the very last thing these money-creators desire. To the end, then, that the Government shall not do this, its very first en? abling Act was declared illegal by the Dominion Government at ; Ottawa at the representation of the Canadian Central Bank controlled by the international financiers. Regarding Major Douglas's advice as to the impossibility of bringing about any change in the present financial system by party-politics—nominally the will of the people—it will be- clear if one takes a leaf out of the book of party pledges here in New Zealand. In the fact that the will to social credit in Alberta is stronger than ever and is spreading like a fire over Canada and elsewhere lies the reason for yet another outburst against it and Major Douglas.—l am, etc., H.S.N.