Somersef, Manitoba, February 16, 1960
I have been a Crediter from the very beginning. My wife an I have been the happiest people in the world to hear the magnificent talks given by Mrs. Côté-Mercier (directress of the Union of Electors - Ed.) over the radio each Sa- turday. We get our neighbors to listen to these talks.
Last week we had the pleasure of hearing Mr. Gerard Mercier on the radio. We were delighted with the merciless whip-lashing which he administered to our blind leaders, asleep in their egoism, for leaving thousands of families to suf- fer hunger in a country as rich as our Canada. We are one of those families.
I have 8 children, 6 of whom are going to school. We are living off our meagre family allowance cheque; $50 a month. I am unemployed. During the summer I work on construction. During the winter there is no work for us in our trade. Last winter and this winter I didn't get a cent of unemployment insurance because I didn't have enough stamps. If it weren't for the fact that we get a little aid from religious charity we'd freeze and starve like rats. I am 54 years old but I feel like 70 with all this poverty and want weighing upon my shoulders. My wife and I can't sleep at nights.
I know very well that many others are suffering the same hardships as we do, but this doesn't help us any. The hardships of one do not relieve the sufferings of another. We are all victims of this barbarous financial regime which has absolutely no respect for human rights. You are perfectly right when you say in Vers Demain and The Union of Electors that the existing financial system is hateful, anti-social and inhuman. You are giving us hope. The dividend of $25 a month which we are demanding with such insistence is urgently needed. We are heirs who have been robbed of our legacy now for years.
We were very happy to receive the visit of your missionary, Louis Philippe Bouchard. On spite of the very severe cold we went taking subscriptions from door to door; we garnered some 20. I am going to get down to work seriously taking subscriptions so that I may contribute my modest bouquet to the magnificent offering of 60,000 subscriptions to be presented to M. Even (director- general of the movement — Ed.) on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his magnificient apostolate in the work of spreading Social Credit.
WILFRID BOULET
This voice speaking from the very depths of poverty and want would touch the heart of anyone who has not deliberately blinded himself to such glaring injustice through a desire for wealth and power. Mr. Wilfrid Boulet's letter is heart-rending. And yet the voice is the voice of a man of courage and hope.
He relates his misery almost matter-of-factly. And yet he is aware that he is not alone in these conditions. His distress has not blinded him to the thousands of other families here in Canada suffering a like fate.
Mr. Boulet is not satisfied to sit down and cry about his lot. He is determined to do something about it. He has joined thousands of other in the great work of the Union of Electors.
Mr. Boulet wants to see a Social Credit society come into existence. So he takes the most direct way of achieving it. He takes subscriptions to the movement's papers. He knows that the more people that come to realize the iniquity of the existing financial system and the remedy which Social Credit proposes, the quicker will a Social Credit civilization be realized.
This is Wilfrid Boulet's hope. This is the hope of tens of thousands of others who living in want or insecurity, look to Social Credit for the dawn of new era. Help these gallant people in their fight for you as well as for themselves. Make Social Credit known through the pages of The Union of Electors.!