Strides in the Right Direction,

and am glad to know that the woman's franchise is on the highway to adoption in the Old Country. (Applause.) I have given you, as far as I have been able, an idea of the work we are doing, for I recognise that I am here to vindicate our side as against the other side, and you do not know perhaps how we are going on. You know as much about us as we know about you, and that is not very much; and as far as my opportunities have allowed me I have given you an insight into our position, and I hope it will act as a warning to you, so that your beautiful country shall not be changed into a country of decrepit men and women. I always wish I was big myself when I see your