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WwySuigriBiSyli m everyone to have a hearing until, at the end, another woman moved to amend the resolution adopted. Miss Dunn pointed out that the present attack on Judge Cooper was being engineered by The Examiner with the help of such women as Gertrude Howe Britton and Laura Ebel, of the Juvenile Protective League. She then went on to tell howe the Juvenile Protective League had con trolled eVery court in the city, with the solitary exception of Judge Cooper's, because the judges so greatly feared the women. She showed that Gertrude Howe Britton, Laura Ebel and their friends of the League had been determined toget Judge Cooper's scalp for this for some time. She showed that The Examiner, to suit its own under ground political ends, had now thrust the opportunity at them. "I know why The Examiner is at tacking Judge Cooper," she said. "You all know that. It is because Judge Cooper is demanding and en forcing a thorough investigation into the charges of fraud in the election of Maclay Hoyne. "And I know why some women want Judge Cooper off the bench. It is because Judge Cooper has refused to allow the Juvenile Protective League or Hull House to control his court. It is because he has refused to allow them to send a man to the penitentiary on their "information and belief" or on the card index, pri vate records of Hull House, and has demanded that those filing informa tion against men or women or chil dren back up their information with sworn testimony. It is because Judge Cooper is the only judge in Cook county who has the courage to pre vent the Juvenile Protective League bartering in babies. When MisaDunnhad finished, Mrs. Jones called on "Mrs." Belle Squires for a speech. "I do not see there is any use in our attacking any one judge on gen- eral charges," Mrs. Squires said. "There is no doubt that women are treated unjustly in the courts. But our remedy does not lie in attacking any dne judge. It lies deeper than that. If we want to get fair treat ment, we shall have to get women's interpretation of the law read into the laws." Mrs. Jenks followed "Mrs." Squires. "I know women are not treated fairly in any court in this city. There is no court in the city where women get fair treatment, but if Judge Cooper is guilty of all they say he is and I don't know anything about that he should be ridden on a rail and dumped in the lake." Mary O'Reilly, school teacher and . delegate from the Teachers' Federa tion to the Chicago Federation of Labor, followed Mrs. Jenks. "It seems very strange to me," she said, "that this attack on Judge Cooper should come just at the time Judge Cooper is doing a great service to the citizenship by enforcing a thorough investigation into the fraud by which Maclay Hoyne was declar ed elected state s attorney. It seems to me " "You're out of order," said Mrs. Jones. "I know," said Miss O'Reilly, smil ing. "You don't want me to say that, do you?" "But there is another thing, too, that is very strange to me," con tinued Miss O'Reilly. "And that is this sudden desire of The Examiner to protect the rights of little chil-, dren. ' -3 "Perhaps some of you know that " there was a newspaper strike in this'' city a year ago. Perhaps same of you even remember some of the inci dents in it "The Examiner was not q asnxious to protect little children then. I have seen fifty policemen guarding Ex aminer property from what littler newsboys, fighting for their, rights', . might do to it. And I saw newsboys LZLJg'Jg?iJ'gb