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The evening was given over entirely to 

 addresses by the ladies, chief among the speakers 

 being Mrs. Brodie, Mrs. Laws, and Miss 

 Griesbach. The president indulged in some 

 plain talk, in which she made abundantly clear 

 the attitude and ambition of the women. "I 

 think," said she, ''that there is only one thing 

 worse than a farm without a woman and that is a 

 farm without a man. What we women want to 

 do is to co-operate with you men in Municipal, 

 Provincial, and Federal matters, the same as we 

 co-operate in the home. We ask no favors; we 

 do not want anything for ourselves that the men 

 do not get, and we do not want the men to have 

 anything that we cannot share in." And 

 again, "Some of you men can look back to the 

 time when all through the country everything 

 was done by co-operation; there were bees for 

 everything men had logging bees, paring bees, 

 husking bees and wood-cutting bees, while the 

 women had bees for quilting and all that. At 

 that time there was a social life in Canada that 

 we have lost, and we are very much poorer, but 

 it is not altogether our fault that we have lost 

 it. We have been robbed of it by unjust 

 economic laws, and the women want to join up 

 with the men for better laws, more equal laws, 

 and we want to work for your motto which we 

 take for our motto, 'Equal opportunity for all, 



