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Social Credit, as preached by pallid Premier William C. ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, never really got started in Alberta. Most of its legislation was vetoed by the Dominion Government or turned down by the courts. But for six years Bible Bill maintained himself in office by an expert mixture of patronage, oratory and extraordinary legislation. One Aberhart law pettishly forbade the courts to declare any Social Credit legislation unconstitutional...
...economic setup for the Dominion, to reconstruct and centralize tax powers. Because his free-spending administration did not want to give up a smidgen of tax power, Premier Patullo attacked the plan. With the aid of Ontario's windy Mitch Hepburn and Alberta's William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, he sank it. What the Premier did not realize was that he had also sunk himself politically, by delayed action...
...Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island) were generally in favor of it. Premier Joseph Adelard Godbout of French-speaking Quebec was not ready to commit himself, but would talk. Three Premiers were flatly opposed: Ontario's florid Mitchell Hepburn, Alberta's vast shiny William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, British Columbia's round, pink Thomas Dufferin Pattullo...
...position "only after an arduous struggle up the hill of public economy" and did not want to be pushed down. Since British Columbia spends nearly twice as much per capita as the average provincial Government, this did not make much sense. Even less sense was made by Bible Bill Aberhart, who wanted the Dominion to stay out of provincial affairs altogether but to underwrite Alberta's debt. By this time it was clear to everybody that three politicians had effectively scuttled the reform...
Last week's Saskatchewan elections proved, however, that Premier Aberhart's spectacular move to add a second province to "Social Credit's" domains had been eminently unsuccessful. Having elected a Liberal government for 28 of its 33 years of existence, the provincial electorate gave its Liberal Government a new five-year lease of life. Social Credit candidates were given only a thin opening wedge in the Provincial Parliament...