The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1917-07-07
The Food Copperheads

Last Saturdays Pueblo Chisftain
(Rep. carried the following timely
Editorial:
In an address before the upper
house of congress Wednesday Senator
Kenyon Of Iowa said:
II should apologize for using the
term ENCOURAGEMENT" in connection
with food spectators. The high
wayman or the sea pirate Is a gentle
man compared. with them. 1t takes
some courage to be a highwayman,
but no courage to be q food specula-
tor. These parasites at the present
time are the allies of the kaiser. They
are weakening the American nation.
The men who fight must be fed. The
mothers of the nation must be fed.
The babies OF the nation likewise.
The men who work to make the
things to fight with must have food.
ave have heard something about
this bill giving the right to the FOOD
controller to tell mothers how much
food they shall give their babies. 1t
does not do 30. But there Is one
question just as important IA the
the question Of the amount of food a
mother shall give a baby, and that Is
whether the baby shall have any
food at all or whether the food that
should go to feed the babies OF the
poor shall feed the poodle dogs OF
the rich.
when we are paying more for
food in this country than they are
in London there is something wrong.
No fac spun theories can convince
otherwise. would as soon have
dictatorship of a controller as die
tatorship of the food gamblers
The entire nation will say amen"
to Senator Kenyon's statement. The
man who seeks to secure an unfair
profit on food stuff is not only rob-
bling the people, but he is the worst
enemy of patriotism We have. n"
man can feel patriotic If his honest
daily labor does not produce enough
revenue to properly feed and clothe
his loved ones. The man who tolls
from sun up to sun down and goes
home to a scanty meal because food
prices are so high he cannot afford
good meal is going to ascertain why
they are high. If he gets the idea
his government is lax in not protect
ing him against food spectators he
cannot be blamed for not getting all
wrought up over fighting for that
government. Tuesday Food Con-
troller Hoover told us some one is
making five dollars a barrel on OF
flour that should not be made. We'd
nesday Senator Kenyon says food Ia
cheaper in London and Paris than in
American cities.
When the American father Is told
that he can have only so much f"d
for his family. ~ he must be told
sooner or later, he will accept the
condition If he feels that his govern
ment has protected him in food prices
in the past. hut II the American
father sees his family go hungry now
because some spectators are making
an unnecessary profit OF five dollars
off Of each barrel of -four or a SINH
lar profit off of some other product he
will not accept the order OF his gov
eminent in the future putting him on
short rations without IA protest.
TO be sure it takes time for con-
yress to enact laws and they should
b. we'll considered, but when the
American people are paying five dol
lars barrel too much for flour ana
when the people Of London and Paris
are getting food cheaper than we are,
because we happen to have a bunch
of food copperheads amongst us, our
government at Washington had best !.
hurry along the law that will correct
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