tors, none are
servitors. No beggars! No caste! The units of a co-operative society,
are sound and healthy to the core. Co-operation, insures
self-employment. Self-employment brings freedom, ambition, independence,
self-respect, leisure and education; with all the comforts and
refinements of life. With these insured, the co-operator cannot be
bought or corrupted by wealth. Each co-operator becomes a citizen, who
without fear and without restraint, may speak, write and vote, in
accordance with the highest dictates of conscience. A healthful degree
of honorable, self-sustaining labor for all, is the key-note of this
social organization. Men and women are placed on the same plane of
equality, financially, socially and industrially. For woman, this is a
matter of the utmost importance.

"Productive co-operative labor, crowns woman with a self-supporting,
self-respecting independence, which emphasizes her freedom from every
form of bondage. In this, we have a perfect demonstration of the power
of labor to bless humanity. Progressive life and invigorating labor, go
hand in hand. One is the complement of the other. Labor as naturally
promotes grace, strength, virtue and long life; as idleness breeds
helplessness, vice, disease and extinction. Here we discover the wisdom,
and the universal application of nature's law of labor. This law
demands, that women who wish to become mothers of a dominant race, and
who desire to secure perpetuity and progress for that race, must take an
active part in some useful, productive labor. If we consider the
significance of this demand, we shall perceive, that any form of social
or industrial organization which denies this right to woman, or which
takes from her the opportunity, the necessity, or the desire to labor,
becomes her worst enemy, a foe to humanity, that is conspiring to reduce
her to the degredation of a helpless dependent, a mere parasite. In her
declaration, that 'The human female parasite, is the most deadly microbe
which can make its appearance on the surface of any social organism;'
Olive Schreiner has summed up in one sentence, the grave danger from
this source which threatens the race.

"The combined and marvelous effects of the co-operative system and
society on the woman question, rightfully places that industrial and
social system far above all others, in the choice of a secure basis for
the foundation of a true republic. In fact, George! After carefully
considering the b