Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1916 — Censorship Dragon. [ARTICLE]

Censorship Dragon.

Let American people stand in fear and trembling of the eventful outcome of the insidious growth of censorship powers. Censorship is no fantastical bugaboo —it is a real national peril, because the day may not be far off when censors, under the shadow of the American flag of Independence, will be empowered by legislative enactment to foist their individual whims, hobbies or prejudices on the suffering public. It is not beyond our imagination to see a fanatical functionary, with the title of censor, who is a vegetarian, forcing the people of his city to abstain from meat. Other censors with similar whims might censor tea and coffee, cigars and cookbooks. Already it is reported ministers are sensing the possibility of their pulpits being ruthlessly purged of objectionable texts. —New York Telegram.