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for similar earnest work there will be given to them that sup¬ 
port and co-operation which is requisite for the completion 
of the work. 
This Society has among its members many who are capa¬ 
ble of just such work, and it should be the mission and the 
object of each and every member to aid in the prosecution of 
such efforts. 
This Society was not founded with the idea of simply 
having a sort of monthly retreat where we can get together, 
swap cases, chat a while, and swap stories. 
Its only efforts should be for the best interests of the pro¬ 
fession, strike whom it may ; it may strike you to-day, it may 
strike me to-morrow ; but as time is the great leveller, so, in 
time, will the seeming hardships be evened up. 
Truth, it is said, should not always be spoken. “ Honesty 
is the best policy.” It does not always seem to be, from a 
financial standpoint, for the time being, the best move, but step 
right ahead, and the satisfaction of knowing that your cause 
was right, and that at no future time can your course be laid 
bare and proclaimed dishonest, should be far more satisfactory 
than the few paltry dollars. 
Harmony is a great thing, but there is a time when it is to 
be put aside and the opposite condition come in its stead. 
This Society should lead all efforts to advance the course 
of veterinary medicine or the interests of the profession in 
this State; its voice should be heard with no uncertain sound 
when questions of health bearing upon our province are 
brought up, or are forced into prominence. 
Now should always be the accepted time, no matter if it 
does strike in your neighborhood, perhaps disarrange some 
interest for whom you render service, temporarily. How much 
better to be able to say, “ Yes, it did exist, but we got right 
to work and wiped it out,” than to deny its existence or to 
claim that those who dare to come out are wild or crazy. 
This Society must do its work, must do it more earnestly, 
and to do it thus our members must be aroused ; and now, as 
our*annual meeting is upon us, let us all go to work and have 
a grand rally from one end of the State to the other. 
