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upon our profession, and they are the “adolescents ” described 
by your Illinois correspondent. 
A non-graduate or quack, no matter how ignorant or 
brutal, will never materially influence or degrade our profes¬ 
sion, for the intelligent public well recognise and duly respect 
the humble graduate, knowing and comprehending the neces¬ 
sity of a thorough college education. When, however, one of 
these brainless, high-toned, kid-glove adolescents, with Latin 
diaploma, who is justly expected to understand his business, 
steps forth in all his imaginary majesty and commences im¬ 
position on the people, then and there, I say, the horse-whip 
ought to be applied. Fortunately, however, these are very 
scarce and their career is of only short duration, for after 
their surplus cash is exhausted they drop off to be never 
heard of again. To provide against these 1 see no remedy. 
Our veterinary colleges cannot avoid them by adopting more 
strict examinations, for as a rule they are able to pass them, 
nor can we exclude them through legislation by also causing 
graduates to pass examinations. 
To derive our point in view, however, it is certainly essen¬ 
tial that all who have not qualified should pass an examina¬ 
tion before they can obtain the rights and title of a veterinary 
surgeon. 
Here the proposed legislation offers to legally recognize 
and protect the qualified non-graduate, and confer on them 
all the rights, powers and privileges of the regular graduate, 
and there is still that tremendous howling. 
Under these circumstances I see no earthly reason why the 
qualified non-graduates should not assist the graduates in their 
work in procuring the proposed legislation, which they cer¬ 
tainly will do. Now then, who does the howling? What 
class is it who continually denounce and condemn graduates 
and legislation through the columns of The Review ? Most 
certainly they are those who know that the legislation will 
terminate their career—the non-qualified—the quacks and no¬ 
body else. 
J. J. Kraus, D.V.S. 
