EDITORIAL. 
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“ It means for us a perfect indorsement of our remarks and 
ot our propositions made in Chicago before the members of 
the first veterinary congress of America held last year. It 
means all obligations for every one who shall intend to prac¬ 
tice in this State, to obtain certificate of qualifications and of 
registration; it means no more imposition on the part of the 
easily obtained graduation from any school from anv part of 
the world, it means death to quackery, it means the elevation 
of the veterinary profession to its proper pedestal.’’ 
With such a past behind me, I will ask, if, with the excep¬ 
tion of the anonymous person who wrote the article for the 
Journal of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Archives , after 
my well known exertions of thirty years in behalf of the ele¬ 
vation of veterinary science in the United States, there is one 
veterinarian in the country who would accuse me of such 
action as that referred to? 
I am not a politician—I have no friends in legislative 
halls—I have no one to pull wires pro nor con upon any legis¬ 
lative measures—I am only a veterinarian who has devoted 
his life to the veterinary profession in the United States—but 
it is true I am not an American citizen. 
My anonymous critic seems to have forgotten that science 
has no country, no patrie , though scientists may have. 
In conclusion, I will say that I feel proud of the passage of 
the law, and claim that instead of interfering with it I was 
one of the first to cause its enactment. 
A. Liautard, M.D., V.M. 
A PROTESTATION. 
Paris, August i, 1895. 
Ptof. Olof Schwarzkopf , V.M.D., Chairman of Executive Committee , Association 
of Veterinary Faculties of North America : 
Dear Sir: —I have received your letter of July the 13th, with the programme 
of the next meeting of the “self-named” “ Association of Veterinary Faculties of 
North America,” doing me the high honor of “ either approving, altering or suggest- 
ing, as I may see fit.” I thank you for the compliment, and though I know well 
that I am pleading for a lost cause, and that it is simply .... foolish for me 
to hope that my efforts to carry their point, notwithstanding these expectations, 
I wi’l permit myself to take advantage of your invitation, not to approve, alter or 
suggest the programme, but simply to call your attention, that of the members of the 
Association of Veterinary Faculties of North America, and, above all, that of every 
