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5v y-p the women of chicago not so easily Pooled by rotten politics as mn are BY N, D. COCHRAN 1 am in favor of suffrage for women, because I am in favor ofjedUallty of rights iot women and mem I don't believe one man should be another's master, and I don't believe man should be woman's master. I am opposed to hiiman slavery in any form. I believe that women will put politics on a higher plane when they have the saine rights as citizens' that men have. . And I doa't believe woman will sacrifice Jany of r her oble womanly qualities By having the right to g voiJe and a vote in political (government Besides that, I don't believe women generally wili be as easily fooled in politics as men generally are; and I DO believe woman has higher ideals politically than man h&a. ' Men are slaves of precedent and habit in politics as well as' in other hings Most of them are Democrats or Republicans by.bJrth,.habi,"en- viroriment find association. Very few men can give an intelligent reason tot being either. r- - Women afe largely free from this form of slavery be6atifie they have not been fiitizens and partisans. Many of them, when they are. given the. right to vote, will come into politics Independent 6f the" dead "land of the" past, fflehtauy free to take an independent stand fbr the principles that may appeal l& them. In thfe gast few days we have had an interesting illustrati&n bf how women arte NOT easily fooled. I refer to the demagogio -attempt of the Hearst papers to stampede the mothers of Chicago into helping those papers bully Judge Cooper, because he happened, to be a 3udge who won't take orders from Boss Andy Lawrence of the Hearst papers. Frantic editorial appeals were made In both The Examiner and Amer ican to the mothers of Chicago to attend a so-called mass meeting t of mothers at the Auditorium Hotel on Wednesday night If the Hearst papers had been honest in those charges against Judge Cooper there was much in them to appeal to all niothers all good women, in fact But less" than 200 women responded to the frantic appeal, and I imagine many of them were not mothers,. I do not question the sincerity of any of the women who were there, but I was glad to see that there were good women who attended that meeting to protest against women being used to pull chestnuts out of the fire for the Hearst papers and to insist on a square deal for Judge Cooper. But better even than that was the fact that with all their boasted cir culation, and despite their frahtic demagogic appeals, theH6arst papers fooled merely a handful of women. Had it been a meeting of men, un doubtedly a big armory could have been filled; for the politicians who play toe Hearst game in Chicago would nave drummed Up a crowd to attend fdr no better than a partisan purpose. And I don't believe there are .many intelligent womefl in Chicago wh6 do not see through the real purpose of the Hearst papers id the present at tack 6Ti Judge Cooper. Very lev? of them will be fooled by a partisan Investigation of Judge C6oDef By a typewritten Jury of twelve -tfonlen who were not selected bv that alleged mass meeting at all, but wef selected In advance and then put i through that meeting by steam-roller MmsSm ..j&3&fc&,a