"If woman is the equal of man, industrially speaking, she is bound to find her natural level. If she is not the equal of man, the New Bethel experiment will help to mark her limitations.
"Whatever the outcome, the question needs an answer and those who claim that she is unfitted for this new field should be the most willing to let her prove it.
"By granting them the suffrage, we have given our women equal rights. Unless for demonstrated incapacity, upon what grounds shall we now deny them equal opportunities?
"The New Bethel experiment should be worked out without hard feeling or rancour on either side.
"Can a woman do a man's work?
"Let us watch and we shall see."
Mary read it twice.
"I like that," she said. "I wish everybody in town could see that."
"Just what I thought," said the judge. "What do you say if we have it printed in big type, and pasted on the bill-boards?"
They had it done.