"L'Évangéline" again

In April issues, both Vers Demain and The Union of Electors, stigmatized that regime which took from families their last remaining bit of property - the roof over their heads — when they were too poor to meet the exactions of the tax collectors.

We reproduced a section of the long list of seizures to be made, which was published by the New Brunswick newspaper, L'Évangéline on February 24. This list gave 1,613 names menaced by the sheriff in the civil parish of Allardville in Gloucester county.

A week later, in its issue of March 2, this same newspaper, L'Évangéline, produced two more lists: one of 857 names from the parish of Beresford, the other of 608 names from the parish of Caraquet. All families which were under sentence of losing their homes - if they did not meet the terms of the authorities concerned with wringing the last nickel out of the poor and penniless.

Two weeks later, covering a full page of its March 17 issue, L'Évangéline printed 1,275 names of victims from the two parishes of Inkerman and New Bandon.

4,353 families from five-parishes. And they do not make up the complete parish. This insatiable octopus is soon going to stretch its tentacles out into the other parishes of this county of poor people.

Now this unhappy fate has not been reserved to the poor of Gloucester county aloner. Nor is it limited to the poor families of New Brunswick.

Houses are being sold for taxes all over the province of Quebec. And in Ontario also. The case of Timmins, Ontario, was recently brought to our attention. There, some 1,300 houses are to go under the hammer of the sheriff.

Nothing could possibly be more degrading to families — to the very idea and principles of the family. It is a crime against the family as an institution. For the family, the basic and most important element of a stable and civilized community, must have roots if it is to fulfill its functions. And how can it have roots if it, cannot call the home which shelters it, its own.

Such seizures constitute, likewise, the most brutal, form of treatment which can be levelled against people whose, only crime is that they are poor.

Let us once more emphasize here, that a newspaper degrades itself by publishing such lists; disgraces itself when it accepts payment for such a work, and is a positive disgrace to its role as a journal, when it does not even raise its voice against a regime, and a system which immolate individuals and families to finance.

The poor

Mrs. Stanley Breau, RR. 3. Allardville,, New Brunswick:

"This Fall, my husband was obliged to spend time in prison for debt. We live in a house that is so hard to heat that we are perpetually frozen. We have no wood for winter. We are obliged to buy it, and we haven't even enough money to eat properly. We have no land and no social assistance. I have been very sick and obliged to leave my bady to go into the hospital. I have another child in the hospital, sick from the cold in our house. If only we could get help! If only we had wood and a stove so that we might keep our children at home. Try to find a rich woman in Montreal who would be kind enough to come to our assistance! Please!".

"The right of private ownership of goods, including productive goods, has a permanent validity. This is so because it is part of the natural law which teaches us that individuals are prior to society and that society has as its purpose the service of man."

Mater et Magistra (Pope John XXIII)

Concerning M.P.s' salaries

It has been remarked that a number of newspapers, as though obeying a well-organized pressure campaign, have been declaring themselves favorable to an increase of salaries for members of parliament - in Ottawa, Quebec, Fredericton, etc.. One of the reasons given, among others, and one endorsed by cabinet minister Gérin-Lajoie of the Quebec provincial government is: members of parliament would not be so likely to give in to the temptation of seeking extra money through patronage or bribes.

Oddly enough, when our movement is seeking to have family allowances increased, or asking that a universal dividend be granted to all citizens, these same papers raised their voices in a loud scandalized cry: "The people will become, corrupted, they will lose their desire to work, etc., etc."...

But when the members of parliament are presented it's a different matter; they must have more money to keep them from corruption: Large, needy, families, on the other hand, and the toiling people must get along on a strictly rationed revenu, otherwise they are liable to succumb to the "corruption" inherent in a modicum of leisure or a reasonably decent living.

Perhaps, these journals are insinuating that members of parliament are more susceptible to corruption. But it is a little difficult for us to see just how money in the case of the M:P's is a remedy against corruption, but where the people are concerned, it is a source of corruption.

Compulsory fluoridation

On April 12, last, the College of Dental Surgeons of the Province of Quebec, laid a brief before the Royal Commission on Health Services in which it advocated, compulsory fluoridation of public drinking water."

"Our government should impose it on the public and not leave it to be public to decide.". So stated the brief.

Two other dental groups added their voices to this declaration - the Montreal Dental Club and La Société Dentaire de Montréal.

A vote of thanks should probably be passed to these groups as well as to The Gazette of Montreal for having published the report with a five column-wide heading. Such a bald statement of socialist principles, such a blatant disregard for the opinion and the wishes of the people, such an endowing of the government with anti-democratic powers, cannot but help arouse the people against the fluridators.

The declaration points up the desperation of the pro-fluoridation groups who have not, in spite of their trumpeted successes, been able to make any appreciable headway in their compaign to fluoridate the nation's water supplies.

Such groups as the above-mentioned, when they bring forward proposals which would breach the liberty of people, are undemocratic. They are Socialistic inasmuch as they would give to the government functions which by right belong strictly and exclusively to the individual.

"Force them to take fluoride in their drinking water!" is what such associations say. "Never mind what they think! Never mind whether they want to take it or not.! Just oblige them to."

For them, thie ostensible end justifies the means. Take care of teeth (so it is said) by any means even if it means taking away the right of the individual to decide when, where, how and by whom he is to have his health taken care of.

Compulsory fluoridation is compulsory mass medication; and such measures are the watermark of dictatorships. Let us have'none of it!

Earl Massecar

For interest free credits issued by the Bank of Canada: this resolution was adopted by the municipal council of Madawaska, New Brunswick.

Communism and religion

"The churches (of America) will remain free to continue their services (in a United Soviet States of America), but their special tax and other privileges will be liquidated. Their buildings will revert to the State. Religious schools will be abolished and organized religious training for minors, prohibited. Freedom will be established for anti-religious propaganda. God will be banished from the laboratories as well as from the schools. The press, the motion picture, the radio, television and the theatre will be taken over by the government." - (William Z. Foster, head of the Communist party in the U.S.A., in the United Soviet States of America", page 316).

"We Communists do not distinguish between good and bad religions because we think they are all bad." - (Earl Browder, head of the Communist Party, U.S:A., 1958).

".... By going among the religious masses, we are for the first time able to bring our anti-religious ideas to them."" (Earl Browder) -

"Religion is a kind of spiritual gin in which the slaves of capital drown their human shape and their claims to any decent human life." — (Lenin, Selected Works): "

"A young man or woman cannot be a Communişt youth unless he or she is free of religious convictions." - (Young Communist: Truth October 18, 1947).

The materialist gives a more important place to materialism and nature, while relegating God and all the philosophical rabble who believe in him, to the sewer and the manure heap. (Lenin)

"We must make our school boys and girls not merely non-religious, but actively and passionately, anti-religious." - (Modom Krupskaya, wife of Lenin).

"We must combat religion. This is the ABC of all materialism, and consequently of Marxism: Down with religion. Long live atheism." (Lenin).

"The party (Communist) cannot be neutral toward religion. - Anti-religious propaganda is a means by which the complete liquidation of the reactionary clergy must be brought about." — (Stalin, 1927, before an American labour delegation).

"Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abollishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all post historical experience." — (Communist Manifesto).

"We must not rest content with the expulsion of religious propaganda (teachings) from the school. We must see to it that the school assumes the offensive against religious propaganda (teaching) in the home, so that from the very outset the children's minds shall be rendered immune to all those religious fairy tales which many grown-ups continue to regard as truth." (ABC of Gommunism).

"The Catholic Church, with the pope in its van, is now an important bulwork of all counter-revolutionary forces" (Yaroslavsky, Religion in the U.S.S.R.)

"We must hate; for hatred is the basis of Communism. Children must be tought to hate their parents, if they are not Communists." - (Lenin).

"We hate Christians and Christianity. Even the best of them must be considered as our worst enemies, They preach love of one's neighbor and mercy, which is contrary to our principles. Christian love is an obstacle to the development of the Revolution. Down with the love of one's neighbor! What we want is hate.. Only then can we conquer the universe." (Lunarcharsky, former Russian Commissar of Education).

From Divine Love for April-June, 1961

Every major problem man is struggiing with today is the result of the economic system being used for false, and therefore anti-Christian purposes."

Eric Butler in Social Credit and Christian Philosophy, page 35