The British Columbia Federationist
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issued: 2017-03-28
issued: 1917-10-19
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note: THE BRITISH INDUSTRIAL UKITY: STBENOTH OFFIOIAr; PAPEB: VANCOtiW TBADES AND LABOB CO UNCIL, AND B. 0. F1D?!BATI0N OF LABOB FEDERATIONIST POLITICAL UNITT: VIOTOBT NINTH YEAR. No. 42 EIGHT PAGES 'o'VANCOUVp, B. C, fRIDAYMORNING, OCTOBER 19,1917 /In Vaneoaver \ \ City, W.00 ; $1.50 PER YEAR How To Avoid Patriotic Funds ****** ****** ****** ****** Victory Loans and Tag Days A Simple Lesson in Simple Finance That WiU Lick the Huns How to Win the War Without Robbing: the Poor Rich People The Federationist is not a victim of the greenback theory that had sucb a vogue among financial simps a generation ago. Tbe profound financial knowledge possessed by thiB great family journal haB been gleaned in the bitter school of experience, through some years of persistent effort in attempting to get something for nothing out of that whieh never had anything in it to start with. And we affirm, and we do it without fear of contradiction, that what we do not know about the financing of great-undertakings upon nothing more substantial than windy promise and doubtful performance, is also unknown to the greatest financial experts of this great flnanclal age. But all of that knowledge, in aU of its pristine profundity, ii hereby given to an anxious world, sorely perplexed by the vexatious problem of how to pay itB impossible bills with a cash that does not and cannot exist, except in the elastic imagination of financial astrologers and meatpbysicians. How to Make Money. Did you ever take a good look at the stuff that is called money! Well, if you did you must have noticed that it consists of nothing but a promise printed upon a piece of paper. Of course, if it is metal money it contains tbe commodty value of the' metal of which it is composed, but if it Ib the paper stuff it contains nothing of any greater value than the promise it conveys. The moBt of it being paper— bills, notes, checks, drafts, bonds, mortgages, and all of that sort of punk which amounts to tho same thing—any one can rea…
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: Vancouver Trades and Labour Council (1912) ; The B.C. Federationist, Ltd. (1912-1915) ; The B.C. Federationist, Limited (1915-1922) ; The B.C. Federationist (1922-1923) ; The British Columbia Federationist (1923-1925).
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0345206
language: English
lat: 49.261111
long: -123.113889
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver : The B.C. Federationist, Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text