The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1918-08-31
CAMPAIGN FOR lyman
BASED ON FALSEH00D
DENVER POST ApMITs irs
CHARGES ABOUT PRoFiTEGh-
ING IN COLORADO ARE LIES;
KEEPS TELLING THEM.

NeSVS
Denver. Aug. 37.-with the primary
election only two weeks away. tho
Denver Post. still running true to
form. 10 opening its mud batteries to
their maximum capacity in It's attacks
on all organized government. and
especially ON the present state admin
istration. II 10 conducting . cam
paiEn Of willful and malicious false
hood In It's efforts to defeat Governor
julius C. Gunter for denomination. and
even going beyond Its usual extrava.
gance in promising what Thomas J.
lyman. its own candidate. will do.
In this case. however. when the ma
ton 10 At war and Colorado soldiers
are daily giving their lives in the
cause Of freedom, It's lies directed
against the efficiency Of the state gov.
eminent are looked upon by all loyal
citizens as nothing less than seditioa.
closely bordering upon treason.
1t Is charging daily that Governor
Gunter is responsible for the high
prices prevailing in Colorado. and
that there is an immense amount Of
profiteering in all lines Of trade. for
which he IL to blame. It is proclaim
ing loudly that lyman will reduce
prices and will put stop forthwith to
profiteering.
The Post knows IN the first place
that the state government has no
authority to fix prices. 1t knows. ~
every well informed person in the
country knows, that Congress, under
an act passed August IS, 1917. dele
gated to the President of the United
States the power to fix and regulate
prices of food and other necessary
commodities. This authority was del.
egated to the President a. . war meas.
ure, and Is exercised as q war meas
ure. It has been delegated BY the
President, under this act. to the ma.
tional food administration. the nation.
al fuel administration and other fed
eral agencies, and has In no case been
delegated to the state governments.
The food and fuel administrations In
this and every other state are organ
lied under federal direction and are
controlled from Washington. They
exercise price-fixins and price reSulat-
ing authority in Colorado. under or.
ders coming direct from Washington.
Washington has. in effect told the
government Of every state In the
Union to keep Its hands off such mat
tsrs during this war, and Colorado 10
obeyiuR orders for the good of the
nation.
so much for the charge that the
state administration IL in any way re-
sponsible for prevailing prices. The
charge that there II riot Of profit
eering In Colorado" IL charge against
the federal and not the state govern
ment. Furthermore. the records OF
the federal food administration and Of
the federal Department Of Labor show
that prices of food and other neces.
sary commodities are lower On the
average in Colorado than in almost
any other state In the Union. The
Denver Post, which 10 making this
profiteering charge most loudly and
persistently, had this to say about
profiteering in Colorado in its Issue Of
August last:
"As q matter Of official record from
Washington statistics. prices are more
moderate ON most things. food and 9TH
erwise, in Colorado and In Denver,
than in any other city or state"
There 10 absolutely NO basis in fact
for the lies printed daily by the Don.
yer Post about profiteering in Colo
RADIO. They are all lies and the Post
knows 1t. Everybody who knows
anything knows that prices are always
higher in time Of war than in time Of
peace. But they. are not higher in
Colorado than they are in other
states. On the contrary, they are
lower in almost all cases. Colorado's
soldier boys are not complaining
about the task set for them In this
war. though they are risking their
lives daily and scores Of them already
have made the supreme sacrifice. Why
isn't It treason. then, to carry on a
propaganda, known to be false, which
tends to make the people At home
weary of the comparatively light war
burden they must bear. while their
fathers and brothers and sons are I'M
complainingly facing the cannons Of
the Huns?
Tom lyman boasts that he has I'm
proved the condition of the boys in