Show PRESS CENSORSHIP I there is a more radical Republican organ published west of Chicago than the Omaha Bee It would be of interest to have It pointed out I believes in the single gold standard as firmly a does Edward Atkinson or Professor McLaughlin of Chicago University i believes in tariff protection as well as Senators Hoar and Hale do and they all worked for McKinleys election together to-gether But the Omaha organ of the administration admin-istration party can think of no excuse for a press censorship in this free republic re-public and treats the establishment of one In the Philippines in the following follow-ing sarcastic vein The censorship press office at Manila seems to have committed an oversight In allowing a cable dispatch to be transmitted transmit-ted stating that recent events emphasize the need of a much larger army in the Philippines than Is now there to establish American supremacy throughout the islands isl-ands How the force is to be Increased If the volunteers are to be withdrawn and no more of the regular troops in addition to those already on the way are available for service In the east will be a perplexing perplex-ing problem Certainly nothing could be more encouraging to the Filipinos than to b told that the American authorities themselves deem that their strength is Inadequate to the task and the cry of traitor raised against the relatives of the soldiers who advised their boys not to reenlist re-enlist will have to be modified or extended to include tho authors of this new Information Infor-mation maton Now a Democrat couldnt have made a remark like that without having some Hanna cuckoo pop up and call him a copperhead |