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EDITORIAL. 
kept down. If a profession is in reality a profession, and has 
genuine abilities, or work of value to do for the world, that pro¬ 
fession cannot be kept down. The endeavor to keep down such 
a man, such a people, or such a profession, arouses such a rebel¬ 
lion that those who set up this opposition to growth and advance¬ 
ment may well tremble at the consequences. The endeavor to 
keep down such a man, such a people, or such a profession, is like 
attempting to shackle with chains the volcano Vesuvius, which 
will show fire and steam, lava and heat, as it has done for a thou¬ 
sand years, whatever you may do in your feeble attempts to stop 
it. That man is seriously in error, who thinks that he can trample 
under foot the man of genuine character who happens for the hour 
to be subservient to him, and who thinks he can keep down such 
a man. That ruler is foolish, that government is worse than fool¬ 
ish, that thinks it possible to keep down and hold in scorn a race 
or people where genuine talent of obvious usefulness is to be 
found. That government which recognizes the value to it*of all 
other professions but one, discriminating against that profession, 
so that the galling shamefulness of its acts to it are enough to 
make the eyes well with manly tears, may expect no more than 
that that profession shall have its muscle and sinew strengthened, 
its brain heated to the intensity of the white light of the sun, and 
its moral nature mightily aroused to ungovernable resentment 
against the injustice of the foul discriminations, and rebellious 
against the torture of having its genuine value laughed at, its 
best intentions and its best work treated with scorn. 
Keeping the veterinarian down. Yes, that, for full forty 
years, has been the policy of the War Department of the United 
States towards the veterinarian. The records show that the army 
veterinarian has done all that was required of him by the War 
Department, and, in innumerable instances, has gone much 
further than the requirements. Through his suggestions veterin¬ 
ary hospitals have been established at posts and in the field; re¬ 
mount depots have been instituted; purchases of animals have 
been made along rational lines; riding and saddlery have been 
immensely improved; rational practice of medicine and surgery 
