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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
The act establishing a State Live Stock Sanitary Board, which was to have gone 
into effect on June 1 st last, still slumbers, and we should endeavor to awaken by some 
means to-day the officials who are charged with its execution. But two of those 
who are to be members of this Board have received their appointment, and the one 
important position to our people generally—to us specially—still remains unnamed 
or appointed. While we had every reason to believe that the duties of this gravely 
important position would fall on the shoulders of our worthy President, and of whom 
it may be said with one accord, that to none would this position come in whom the 
veterinary profession the length and breadth of the State would feel more confidence 
and belief that through him the highest mission of this legislation for our people 
would be best accomplished. We have with one accord been sorely pained to realize 
that the exigencies of politics, the baneful perpetuation of the infamous “spoils sys¬ 
tem,” has robbed our State of his valuable services for the time, and our people of 
the defense and protection this Board promised to assure them and the profession 
in the Keystone State of the possession of a wise law, conservative plan and valued 
measure alongside our colleagues of other States in dealing with these portentous 
questions of so much import to the health and happiness of our people. We still 
hope and believe that our Governor will make this appointment, and thus bring to 
his administration in this specific direction the valued services of one so thoroughly 
equipped for this place, in my estimation, and through whom there will inure to his 
administration, the people and our profession, the greatest good to the greatest 
number, the true and highest attainment of all legislation for the people of the 
people, and by the people. 
The second act, establishing a State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners 
after some delay and slight changes, passed both Houses, and, receiving the Gover¬ 
nor’s signature, became a law. Its provisions called for its enforcement on Septem¬ 
ber 2d, when was designated the time for the convening and organization of the 
Board. The appointments to this Board have also been denied us, for the reasons 
named applying to the office of State Veterinarian and the Live Stock Sanitary Board. 
May the lessons that these experiences teach us, that the day of offensive partizan- 
ship has reached such a climax that for the good interests of our people it must be 
wiped out as a blot upon our country and an insult to the intelligence of our people. 
We are a part of the people against whom these charges rest, and we are factors of 
influence and power in the better solution of these questions; let us, then, never lose 
the Qpportumty of so casting our ballot that we can be charged with wearing a party 
yoke, or of yielding our virtues and manliest traits of independence by conceding 
our party slavery, when we cast a ballot for a bad man, who, by the machinations of 
machine nominations or combine allotments, may have obtained a place on the ticket 
that stands for the party which best represents the principles we uphold. 
These appointments should have been made many months ago, that the work 
charged to the execution of this law should have been complied with as intended by 
its provisions and our lawmakers. Our people are entitled to all the benefits of legis¬ 
lative enactments, and a long-suffering public arrived at exact conclusions when her 
unqualified support was given to these measures through the campaign of education 
instituted by this organization and completed through the earnest, conscientious 
work of all its members, directed and supported at all times and at all hours by the 
untiring energy and devotion of our President. Therefore the denial of these bene- 
s and security to the people of our State comes to them as a condition of affairs 
for which the weakest excuse that intelligent officials may offer would be those of a 
partisan, factional, political character. 
During the past six months several violations of the State law have been brought 
to our notice, and vigorous action upon the part of several of our veterinarians led 
