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sense that I believe it has been adjudicated that all 

 men embrace all women, I do not believe in the dis- 

 tinction that talks about dairy men and dairy women 

 as those having different interests. I don't like women's 

 clubs or men's clubs. I don't even like the idea of 

 women's rights where it contains an assumption of 

 being opposed to men's rights, and particularly in 

 this great opportunity that is coming to all of us to show 

 what we can do and be. We ought not to be lady 

 managers or gentlemen managers ; we ought to be 

 managers working altogether. We ought not to be 

 dairymen and dairy women ; we ought not even to be 

 American men and American women, but all just 

 American citizens working without a suggestion of sex 

 lines, to the very best of our ability to make this Expo- 

 sition what it is sure to be, because, when American 

 men and women work together and are thoroughly in 

 earnest, something good is bound to come of it. 



When I met our worthy president on the train two 

 nights ago, he began doing what he has done every 

 year since he has been president (and that is a good 

 many), urging me to " make a speech," as he calls it. 

 I objected, as usual, but when he showed me the pro- 

 gram that night I said, " I see you have a talk on be- 

 half of the dairymen and another for the dairy women. 

 Now, give me five minutes to say a few words to the 

 children, the young folks on these dairy farms, and I will 

 do it." So here I am. 



And I will tell you why I want to reach the young 

 folks. Simply because I sincerely believe that 9-10 of 

 the educational benefit of the great Exposition we are 

 going to have will be received by those under 25 years 

 of age. You can't do very much with old folks, they 

 are most of them pretty much " sot " in their modes of 



