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EDITORIAL. 
which is expressed with so much frequency the unity which this 
gives us, scattered though we are by the tens of thousands all 
over our fair land, it is that happy expression, “ I am proud I am 
a veterinarian.” We feel, therefore, that we all, because of the 
pride we have in our profession, are certain spontaneously to be 
of one mind in our opposition against those who block its prog¬ 
ress, or hold it back from its destiny, which is to stand in equality 
with all other professions in the country. We rightly take pride 
in our profession. We are in the right when we fight, with all 
the manly, masterful strength with which we are endowed, 
against the forces which set up opposition to our professional 
advancement, which tend to deaden our hopes, and which keep 
our profession a miserable, unformed, ridiculous dwarf in the 
public eye. There is not a veterinarian in Rhode Island, in Cali¬ 
fornia, in Minnesota, in Texas, or anywhere else in the stretch 
of the country who does not.oppose with a burning, perfect re¬ 
belliousness such opposition, whose pride, when he is fully 
aroused to the meaning of it, would not be stung by it, and who 
would not, provided he is shown the way to do so, instantly unite 
his energies with the energies of all other veterinarians in Amer¬ 
ica to drive such opposition to the interests of our profession to 
the wall. This is the pride which sustains our profession in 
face of the enmity to its progress. 
The great battles for veterinary progress, which concern the 
whole profession, must be fought out and won by the American 
veterinary private practitioners, taken as a whole, because they 
constitute by far the majority of the membership. Consequently, 
we wish to speak now more particularly to them as a private prac- 
tioner to his fellow practitioners on the worst form of opposition 
to our advancement which exists in the United States to-dav, and 
we want them to feel that our words are personal, sincere and 
out of the depths of our heart. The editors of the Review are, 
and have always been, private practitioners. There is no practi¬ 
tioner who knows better than they how difficult it is to take an 
hour from a busy day of practice, or an hour in the evening, when 
weariness is upon a man after a hard day’s toil, and devote it to 
