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evil upon the latter. We would like to be convinced that the 
cry of danger is a false alarm, but what are we to think when 
.we hear of the contemplated establishment of new schools, in 
which the investment of capital for speculative purposes is a 
leading incident, and a faculty is appointed containing not a 
single veterinarian of education, and with an empiric at its 
head to run the machine ? ” If this thing has not happened 
in one of the Northern States, so much the more to the credit 
of Michigan, or some of her people. And if a college has not 
been started or contemplated by mere capitalists in another 
Northern State, so much the less to the discredit of Ohio, or 
some of her people. And what is to be the character of the 
“Toronto Veterinary Dental School,” (Limited) which 
claims to be located in that city, with .... V.D. for 
principal ? Shall colleges be established which are merely 
diploma-shops and veterinarian factories, and which offer as 
inducements to catch the “ trade ” of “ customers,” the cheap¬ 
ening and popularizing of our standard of qualifications, in 
order to make it easy to “ get through ? ” 
Shall we veterinarians who love our profession, and who 
appreciate our calling and its requirements, stand by silent 
and inert, and permit a state of affairs so disgraceful to con¬ 
tinue, without at least a protest and an effort to put an end 
to it? 
For years the United States ignored the value and depre¬ 
cated the standing of the veterinarian, but after so long we 
have obtained a shadow of recognition at her hands, and we do 
not like to contemplate the prospect of losing the little we 
have gained. Let us by all possible preventive means ward 
off the threatening danger. It is the duty of every veterin¬ 
arian to watch the work of the parasites who would ruin a no¬ 
ble cause by assuming to identify themselves with its name 
and its mission. Would that we could inspire every true 
veterinai ian in the land to combine with his fellows in an effort 
which should never cease until our most honorable profession 
is established upon foundations which can never be shaken, 
and then we should never more have occasion for apprehen¬ 
sion of the approach of “ A Dark Age,” 
