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Show f Character Aa in "j It ELL bath no fury like a woman scorned, unless, perhaps It Is a man of means, concentrating his wealth and mind on the destruction of n enemy. In Chicago, a police po-lice officer admits that he was hired to link the name of Helen Elwood Stokes with the old tenderloin district of the Windy city. One of the affiants, who had taken ttath that he knew the Stokes woman under another name In one of the Chicago resorts, admitted to the district attorney that the story was "all 1 bunk." The assault on the reputation of Mrs. Stokes Is a despicable attack on a defenseless woman, which can have no object but to 4e-. 4e-. stroy the woman. She alleges that the poisoned propaganda which has been used against her was inspired and financed by her husband. The whole affair should be probed IT to the bottom and the conspirators punished to the full extent of the law. n Men, who take false oaths, shoulj be given the opportunity to reflect on their of-- fenses in jail. The law should have sterner pnisnment for. those who frame this propa- ganda with the aid of money. It is unfor- tuna'te, but we do hav characters in Amer- L-a,' who will sell the last vestige of tionor for gold. They will swear to anything for mon,ey. In defense of itself the law must maintain the sacredness and Integrity of the sworn state- ment. To this end perjury must be considered consid-ered a grave offense with a stern penalty. - Buyers of manufactured testimony and evi-j evi-j dence should be. more severely dealt with, " particularly when the lie factory Is gtven to spreading evil tales about women. |