906 
T. J. GUNNING. 
my duty to make a few remarks along this line I would gladly 
pass it by, and I can assure you that what I have to say, I say it 
with true brotherly love and due respect for all. 
I trust that the time is not far distant when every graduate 
in this State will be bound together in one great professional 
brotherhood, thinking not of self alone, but the good of all. The 
profession in this State at the present time reminds me very 
much of a house divided against itself. What the outcome of 
this division will be, it is not for me to say ; but I trust that 
the divided parts may again be bound together for the good of 
all 
Something over four years ago the Governor of this State 
appointed to the office of State veterinarian a gentleman who 
was a non-graduate, a gentleman who, only a short time before 
his appointment, took occasion, in my presence, to denounce the 
veterinary colleges of this country as unworthy of recognition, 
and I took it for granted that he did not hold the graduates in 
any higher esteem than the colleges from which they were 
graduated. Only a short time after his appointment he was in 
Chicago knocking at the doors of the veterinary colleges asking 
them to recognize him, and I have been informed that there 
was one of the veterinary colleges that gave him the recognition 
he desired and which, I have no doubt, he so much needed. 
While the other college was perfectly willing to recognize him 
as an honorable gentleman, but not as a professional man, and 
by so doing placed a wreath around it, which neither the scorch¬ 
ing sun of summer nor the chilling blasts of winter will be 
able to wither. 
At the time of this appointment it was freely admitted by 
State officials at Springfield, that if the graduated veterinarians 
of this State-refused to do State work under this appointment 
the State work could not be carried on, but if enough graduates 
could be found who would condescend to do State work it 
would make but little difference who held the office of State 
veterinarian. Notwithstanding the fact that a large number of 
graduates refused to do State work, there were plenty who 
