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has the best hospitals, and the best medical schools, and in 
general the most advanced culture in scientific study in the 
world. The most expensive cattle are found within the bor¬ 
ders of the State, and yet this great center has no endowed 
veterinary school. Why should not the City College, or the 
City University, or Columbia College do what Pennsylvania, 
Harvard, Iowa and the University of Minnesota have done? 
Why will not our public-spirited citizens take it in charge 
and establish departments in some of these schools? The 
time is opportune, the occasion is ^urgent. A new and earn¬ 
est interest, a general endowment, and an open-handed sup¬ 
port would give a return that we cannot even now conceive. 
The American Veterinary College has no mean envy, and 
will welcome any help to the general cause. Whether it 
comes to our own school or to some other is a matter of no 
great moment, provided it comes, and comes soon, and comes 
to the City of New York, where, of all places in the country, 
it is most needed. Emulation may exist, but never jealousy, 
in the common pursuit of science and of truth. 
Is it that I misapprehend the subject, or has not public 
attention been aroused to it? Your child can tell you his or 
her trouble—the diagnosis is not difficult, and the remedy 
and the treatment are relatively simple—but if the dumb 
animal in your care falls ill, and by its beseeching, piteous 
face and speechless pleading asks for help you call a stable 
boy and leave it to its fate, or what, perhaps, is worse, you 
send for a worthless charlatan, with his traditional medicine, 
a so-called “ horse doctor” who has received no education 
whatever and knows nothing of his duties, and in a majority 
of cases adds brutality to ignorance. These gentlemen, having 
done this, think they have done all they should do. If they 
discover an ignorant driver beating his horse in the street 
they become violent and hasten to make complaints to the 
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. This is 
well, but he has committed as great a cruelty. Yes, a greater 
cruelty in allowing his horse to be agonized by internal suf¬ 
fering, and refusing to furnish intelligent and educated relief. 
Better, far better, beat your horse in the street than to allow 
