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EDITORIAL. 
We ask of Director Law this plain question : If one, which 
do you accuse ? If more than one , how many ? Name them. 
The accusation is degrading to all the private schools, and 
we cannot see how an answer to this question can be refused. 
Let the culprits be known. If they are not named, by what 
denomination shall the statement of Prof. Law be called ? 
The profession will answer if Director Law declines. 
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VETERINARIANS OF NEW YORK, KILL THIS BILL. 
Last fall the Review sounded an alarm that our law in New 
\ ork State would be attacked during the present session of the 
legislature, and we advised all members to be on the alert, ready 
to strangle any attempt to break the integrity of our hard- 
earned statutes. Already the enemy is at work, and in the most 
despotic manner, for, as will be seen by the subjoined bill, he 
asks that the whole superstructure of our laws be torn down, 
and the “ quack ” permitted to register without any other quali¬ 
fication than a five-year practice. The audacity of the member 
who has introduced this abominable measure (Mr. Ives) is abso¬ 
lutely incomprehensible ; it seems incredible that a public man 
would have the effrontery to thus insult the members of the 
veterinary profession of this State, after all that has been done 
by them in their struggles to elevate their calling. After the 
sacrifices which they have made and the hardships which they 
have imposed upon their members in placing themselves under 
the Regents’ laws ; and then to ask the legislature to annul the 
very foundation of their existence, is a piece of brigandage 
which should mark the member for life. 
But the duty of every veterinarian in the State is so plain 
that we feel that we only need to declare the situation in order 
to throw them into the most active opposition to the infamous 
proposition. 
We print below a letter sent out by the Secretary of the 
State Board of Veterinary Examiners, the alert and loyal Dr. 
Wm. Henry Kelly, of Albany, who very fully states the facts in 
the case, and advises concerted action by veterinarians. In order 
