From the "Army and Navy Journal" dated 6/14/1902. The War Department was not tolerant of those that spoke against the government in their employ:
Women are, we regret to say, sometimes disposed to abuse the courtesy accorded to their sex, and a conspicuous example of this is found in the case of Miss Rebecca J. Taylor, a clerk in the War Department, who has busied herself in writing letters to the Washington Post abusive of our Army in the Philippines. She has been promptly dismissed and we hope that if there are any more like her in Government employ that they will be speedily requested to find other occupation. Of course some Congressman promptly appears with his little resolution of inquiry as to what all this means and we hope that he will receive a reply which will make him understand that there are limits to the privileges of Government clerks, even those under the protection of petticoats. The last offense of Miss Taylor was an attack on the President, which concluded as follows: Long will Theodore Roosevelt drink to the health of those who wrought the splendid work of death ere the spirit of liberty shall be crushed from the souls of the infant heroes of the Philippines, but not till the land is left desolate, not while humanity lives in the American heart, not till the doctrines of the brotherhood of man dies in Christendom, not until God forgets his brown children, will the flag stay put on the blood soaked soil of the Philippines. Eternal shame on such ignoble warfare."