For the present our cry is, "We take all labour for our province!"

From the judge's seat to the legislator's chair; from the statesman's
closet to the merchant's office; from the chemist's laboratory to the
astronomer's tower, there is no post or form of toil for which it is not
our intention to attempt to fit ourselves; and there is no closed door we
do not intend to force open; and there is no fruit in the garden of
knowledge it is not our determination to eat. Acting in us, and through
us, nature we know will mercilessly expose to us our deficiencies in the
field of human toil, and reveal to us our powers. And, for today, we take
all labour for our province!

But, it may then be said: "What of war, that struggle of the human
creature to attain its ends by physical force and at the price of the life
of others: will you take part in that also?" We reply: Yes; more
particularly in that field we intend to play our part. We have always
borne part of the weight of war, and the major part. It is not merely that
in primitive times we suffered from the destruction of the fields we tilled
and the houses we built; or that in later times as domestic labourers and
producers, though unwaged, we, in taxes and material loss and additional
labour, paid as much as our males towards the cost of war; nor is it that
in a comparatively insignificant manner, as nurses of the wounded in modern
times, or now and again as warrior chieftainesses and leaders in primitive
and other societies, we have borne our part; nor is it even because the
spirit of resolution in its women, and their willingness to endure, has in
all ages again and again largely determined the fate of a race that goes to
war, that we demand our controlling right where war is concerned. Our
relation to war is far more intimate, personal, and indissoluble than this.
Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one
another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed! We have in