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ONE MAN'S OPINIONS BY N. D. COCHRAN Prostitution. I have published many letters on that world-old prob lem, which never has been solved. . I . don't think it will be solved until " some of the confusion is removed. We don't know how many women .enter that business from choice and how many from necessity. We won't know until we have a social system that makes it easily possible for every 'girl to live without selling her body. Then we wjll have as prostitutes only those'women who enter that profes sion from choice. I think woman should be free to choose; and she can't be free to choose unless there is no necessity. I don't say the world owes every man and woman a living. I do be lieve, however, that the world owes, every man and woman an opportu nity to earn a living, and such a liv ing as will enable him or her to live a. wholesome life. I 'believe every man who is able and willing to work is entitled to the opportunity to work and a wage that will enable him to marry; and that every father is entitled to a wage that will enable him to provide for his sons and daughters until they are old enoughto take care of themselves. And t,think our most dangerous criminals are the men who exploit their "brothers and deprive them of their rights as husbands and fathers to provide for their families. . o o , POLITICAL MOTHER GOOSE I like Mr. Wilson, His heart is so cooL And if I don't knock him, ' 111 shatter a rule. New York Tribune. o o - Someone proposes that Chicago hire idle men to clean ice off side walks. Believe us, a man cleaning ice off sidewalks tlesa days doesn't class- as an idle man. THE PUBLIC FORUM A SWEITZER POME T When You Wore a,Tu!ip and I Wo a Big Red Rose. Lef s vote fqr Sweitzer To make this town wiser, Just one little vote will do. He'll make this city " A' town safe and pretty, ( J?ar we know him thru and"AriL Men may be smarter, M jk But not our friend Carter, ,. Jl A promise is all he'll do. ,' He .makes vows just to spilKthemj' ' But Bob will fulfill them, .; So vote for a man that is teas. W. E. Wachs. k . ,- ABUSING THE SICK. "P. K." has written his little say, so I will tell you something about the dope fiends of Chicago. Two months ago a friend of mine, the father of a family, and a hard working mant went to the County hospital, Dunning and the Bridewell to try and get cured of the dope habit. In each place he was humiliated. He was even cursed at one of the places. Finally he went to his alderma who told him that they had a ma velous-cure for the drug habit in the Bridewell. He asked the alderman. if he could oe sent there for this cure. He was'tokl that onlypeojplewhowere arrested, could take the cure so q made up his mind to break the.Jw,.,. Gtoing out on the streets one night he begged in front of a policeman and was arrested. The ,next morning a judge fined him $25 and costs and sentenced him to 10 days in the BridewelL On arriving there he told the doctor in charge that he was a dope fiendV ' He was sent to the hospital wh&4 he was kept thre days. He was givo. nothing to relieve his sufferings a&d when he asked the nurse, who tol& his pulse for medicine he was laugh ed at. For three days he was in the ho- fcklj!