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geons, and all of them hold official rank with corresponding 
salary, having equal positions with the medical staff—in fact, 
constituting a medical staff by themselves. In France, in 
Germany, in Italy, in Austria, in Russia and, I think, in Tur¬ 
key, the veterinary colleges are Government institutions, paid 
from Government funds, and controlled by Government offi¬ 
cials. In all these countries the colleges are of a higher 
grade, and at Berlin and Hanover they have been raised to 
the position of universities. The students who graduate from 
these schools secure recognized positions in the army, in the 
quarantine and health boards, and in other official stations. 
In England, although the schools are not conducted by the 
Government, yet they are under Government control in a 
modified form, and their graduates are all eligible to official 
positions. 
In this country, however, these colleges are not only not 
controlled or patronized by the Government, but their grad¬ 
uates are scarcely recognized in any way, and that, too, in a 
Government that boasts of a Department of Agriculture and 
a Bureau of Animal Industry ! The Government, for exam¬ 
ple, employs in the arm) 7 a graduate of a veterinary college 
thoroughly equipped for his duties, and if he humiliates him¬ 
self enough to accept the position he appears on the pay-roll 
as a day laborer, and is paid the extravagant price of seventy- 
five dollars a month ! What service could you expect under 
such conditions, and what right-minded student would sub¬ 
ject himself to such degradation? We export millions of dol¬ 
lars’ worth of beef and hogs abroad every year, and what 
can I say of the education and training of the inspectors em¬ 
ployed by the Government without being charged with dis¬ 
loyalty. That the inspection is incomplete and imperfect is 
notorious, and what else; could be expected if the Govern¬ 
ment degrades the profession and pays day laborers’ wages 
to the graduates of our veterinary schools and colleges. Do 
you wonder that Germany prohibits the importation of 
American pork, or that England in every possible way keeps 
out American beef? We, of course, attribute it to base and 
selfish motives, but behind it all there is another and different 
reason, and a right good reason, too, in my judgment. 
