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...Canadian Province of Alberta which elected W. C. Aberhart as Premier on a Social Credit platform recently (1 made the platform effective and began paying a $25-a-month dividend to every citizen, 2 defaulted payment on two bond issues, 3 refused to accept financial aid from the Dominion Treasury, 4 impeached its Premier, 5 prevailed upon the founder of Social Credit to assist in making the plan effective...
...principal on two matured 6% bond issues issued in 1916, thus became the first Canadian Government to welsh on a financial obligation. Elected on a platform promising ''$25 a month dividends to every citizen." Alberta's sanctimonious, bulb-eyed Premier William C. Aberhart explained: "We haven't the money. I'm sorry." Fact was that ''Bible Bill" Aberhart had inherited a $150,000,000 load of indebtedness from his predecessors, had only $140,000 with which to make an interest "token payment" on the two defaulted issues. Social Crediteer Aberhart decided...
Conceivably, Premier Aberhart might have maintained Alberta's financial honor by borrowing from the Dominion Treasury, which has already lent Alberta $26,000,000. Conceivably. Dominion Finance Minister Charles Avery Dunning might have exercised his right to use Dominion dollars to pay off Alberta's debts. Neither Premier nor Finance Minister chose such a course. "Bible Bill" Aberhart evidently was loath to give the Dominion additional financial reins on his Social Credit government. As for Finance Minister Dunning, he washed his hands of Alberta's de- fault, observing: "If Social Credit is sound and good, it will...
...addition to being Alberta's unpredictable head man. Premier Aberhart is head of Calgary's Prophetic Bible Institute. Last fortnight he protested against being called a religious fanatic on the basis of an utterance made in 1917, when reporters understood him to say the Last Trump was at hand. "Let me say that Jesus is not coming in 1936 or 1937 or 1938 or 1939 or 1940 or 1941,:'' Premier Aberhart firmly told newshawks. "Have you got that clear? . . . Now listen carefully. Seven years before the coming of Christ, the raptures shall take place. This will...
...hand, the Major resigned his $10,000 per annum job as Alberta's adviser, canceled his proposed voyage to oversee the setting up in Alberta of Social Credit. This tended to leave stranded the rotund, frog-eyed school principal and radiorating lay preacher William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart who won Alberta's last election and its Premiership by promising $25 per month in Social Credit to every bona fide citizen of the province. Premier Aberhart, whose detractors now derisively call him "Abie," spent the week getting off to Major Douglas pious cablegrams urging him to reconsider...