PENNSYLVANIA STATE BOARD OF VETERINARY MEDICAL EXAMINERS. 441 
cities and towns and the country districts of our state, of the laws 
for the inspection of meat and meat products and the establish¬ 
ment of better and cleaner butcher shops and cleaner meat shops 
throughout the state. Remember the supreme effort made by a 
state to stamp out a recent plague introduced from across the sea. 
When you stop to consider the conflicting opinions and the 
difficulties to be overcome you cannot form any other conclusion 
but that the representatives and senators, as a rule, have for 
years in Pennsylvania had our interests at heart and have done 
for us all in their power, and if they have not done more it may 
be our own fault. Personally, I feel grateful, and say all honor 
to them. 
We have heard so much against politics and politicians. We 
have witnessed the conflict in the struggle for power of parties. 
Condemnation on every hand. But if you can show that no sub¬ 
stantial gain has been made, then all the progress our profes¬ 
sion (based upon legislation) has achieved is a myth and has 
no real existence, then as far as we are concerned it is possible 
that parties have been a detriment and an injury to us and to 
the states. But if we can point with just pride to our achieve¬ 
ments assisted by the law-makers of Pennsylvania, then it fol¬ 
lows that parties, so called, have not been a detriment to our 
profession. 
The truth is, however, that in a democratic form of gov¬ 
ernment, like ours, you can achieve nothing outside of politics. 
The Pennsylvania State Board of Veterinary Medical Examin¬ 
ers has recently in a way been reconstructed. Two members, 
the only politicians on the Board, have at the expiration of their 
terms been removed and two others appointed by the Governor 
to fill their places. This is not the first and only time such action 
has been taken in this state in similar matters or in any other 
state of the Union. Therefore, the action was not without 
precedent and was no doubt based upon a good reason. An 
unbridled tongue maketh enemies. This quotation to-day is as 
true as it was in the days of King Solomon. 
I would not raise the question here were it not for an editorial 
