CANADA OR ALBERTA.

Evening Star, Issue 22144, 26 September 1935, Page 16

CANADA OR ALBERTA.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—We shall be pleased if you will grant us space to refute the correctness of the statement made by the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes) to the Press recently, in which he said that “ his attention had been drawn to Press telegrams from overseas indicating that Alberta and New Zealand were engaged in a race as to which would be fust to put into application the theories of tlie Douglas Credit System.” The Press cable (not telegram) referred to by the Prime Minister, as published by the leadings papers of the Dominion, read as follows: — “ The Dean of Canterbury, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, who arrived to-day (New York), said that the Social Credit movement was beginning a tremendous religious war against poverty, with Canada and New Zealand running a close race to be first to adopt the programme.” There was no mention made of any race between New Zealand and Alberta, as asserted by the Prime Minister. Had ho made due enquiries before making such a statement, he would have discovered the fact that a Social Credit Government was elected in Alberta on August 22, by the large majority of 54 in a Parliament comprising; 63 seats. The race between Canada and New Zealand is now in progress, and as an indication of the pace that is being set in this Dominion, the Prime Minister might take note of the Press reports of the Douglas Social Credit rally held at Palmerston North two weeks ago, when it was pointed out that there was an attendance of no fewer than 430 delegates from branches of the movement situated in the Wellington and Taranaki districts only. As there are at present 307 branches spread over the Dominion, the words of the Prime_ Minister, that “Douglas Credit theories are supported by a very small number in New Zealand.” will be “wasted on the desert air.” Tne people of New Zealand are becoming more enlightened every day as to the real cause of “Poverty amidst Plenty,” and are much too sensible to permit man-made conventions any longer to stand in the way of establishing the truth that the real object of production is consumption, and that the issue of money to the consumer, the only remedy, is the prerogative of the King, and is not the right of a small section of the community. Sale of money is a usurious demand on service of “something for nothing,” void of all good, demoralising all contact. —We are, etc., Douglas Social Credit Movement Or N.Z. (Inc.). Wellington, September 23.