Show COMMENTS BY THE PRESS Boston Herald Perhaps the government may be jusuned in exercising a censorship censor-ShiP over some of the overzealous newspaper news-paper correspondents At the same time the government can hardly ignore the tact that it is getting some of its earliest and most important war news from these enterprising scribes who get their work in ahead of the officials in just about nine capes put of ten It will not do to snub the scribes New York Tribune The Maine must be remembered Let not that fact be overlooked The men of Commodore Doweys fleet do not forget their murdered mur-dered comrades Remember the Maine was In their minds and hearts as they rode toward Manila harbor on the wild tempest of the China sea That cleared their sight and Steadied their nerves as they hurled the bolts ot war against the hostile ships and forts That is foremost in their minds and hearts today as they exult in their splendid victory That may well be still tiie watchword of the nation na-tion which the Maine served and which today battles with the Maine destroyer Manila against Havana and another and another Manila to boot Remember the Maine Baltimore American Camps throughout through-out the country are now being suojecLed to an invasion which it requires ail the resources of military dlscluUne to suc cessfuly repel for the attacks are conducted I con-ducted oy the fire of killing glances from bright eyes batteries of persuasive smiles and raids of fair skirmisners But the heroism of the boys in blue is proof against all the wiles of the enemy San Francisco Chronicle The right of way should be given the Caluornia Oregon and Washington naval militia togo to-go to Manila If the Illinois tars want service let them come here and man the mosquito fleet The Manila campaign cam-paign should be a western affair exclusively exclu-sively just as the Cuban campaign is so far as volunteers are concerned a special privilege of the cast Omaha Bee There can be no question about the value of an education to a soldier It is matter of history that of the 424 graduates and nongraduates of thouniversity of Michigan who had served in the United States army up to 1SC5 only 46 were mustered out as privates and 40 of these were non ruduates Twelve of them became brigadier generals gen-erals The records of other colleges are doubtless equally instructive The United States has never been extravagant ex-travagant in the giving of titles and it has thus happened that some of their most notable victories have been won by commodores and major generals It is a wise stinting too for it leaves something of rank yet to conferred upon the real heroes The highest title is not an empty sound < It is the assurance that its bearer has deerved the highest distinction dis-tinction for acts performed It is for this reason that the recent attempt to give the title of lieutenant general to Major General Gen-eral Miles was opposed a title that I means everything that Grant and Sherman I Sher-man and Sheridan achieved Dewey has earned the highest rank and it should be I given |