Gunnison news-champion., 1918-09-06
CAMPAIGN FOR lyman
BASED ON FALSth00D
DENVER POST ADMITS ITS
CHARGES ABOUT PRoFiTEER-
ING IN COLORADO ARE LIES;
KEEPS TELLING THEM.


Denver. Aug 27.-With the primary
election only two weeks away, the
Denver Post, still running true to
form. is opening its mud batteries TO
their maximum capacity in its attacks
on all organized government. and
especially on the present state admin.
lstration. II is conducting cam
paign of willful and malicious false.
hood in its efforts 10 defeat Governor
Julius C. Guntsr for denomination. and
even going beyond its usual eItrava.
gance in promising what Thomas J,
lyman, its own candidate. will DO.
In this case, however. when the ma
ton is al war and Colorado soldiers
are daily giving their lives in the
sause OF freedom, its lies directed
against the efficiency of the state gov.
eminent are looked upon by all loyal
citizens as nothing less than sedition,
closely bordering upon treason.
II is charging daily that Governor
Tunier is responsible for the high
prices prevailing in Colorado. and
that there is an immense amount o!
prorteering In all lines of trade. FOR
which he is to blame. II is proclaim.
Ing loudly that lyman will reduce
prices and will put stop forthwith to
proGteering.
The Post knows in the first place
hat the state government has no
authority to fix prices IL knows, as
very 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
gated to the President as a war meas.
urc. and is exercised as a war meas
ure. II 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
ICED under federal direction and are
controlled from Washington. They
exercise price.fiHing and price regulat-
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
tiers during this war. and Colorado II
obeying orders for the good Of the
nation.
So much for the charge that the
state administration is In any way re,
sponsible for prevailing prices. The
charge that there Is . riot Of profit.
eering in Colorado" is a 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 is making this
profiteering charge most loudly and
persistently, had this to say about
profiteering in Colorado in its issue Of
August 7 last:
"As a 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 is absolutely no basis in fact
for the lies printed daily by the Den
yer Post about profiteering in Colo
RADIO. They are all lies and the Post
knows it. 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 otheI
states. On the contrary. they arr
lower in almost all cases. Colorado'i
soldier boys are not complaining
about the task set for them in THU
war, though they are risking theil
lives daily and scores Of them already
have made the supreme sacrifice. WIZ
isn't It treason. then. to carry on .
| propaganda, known to. be false, which
/ tends to make the people at home
weary Of the comparatively light val
burden they must bear. while theil
fathers and brothers and sons are IN
complainingly facing the cannons o.
| the Huns?
Tom lyman boasts that he has i'm