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THE VETERINARIAN, OCTOBER 1, 1880. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
AMERICAN CATTLE DISEASE. 
The editor of the Live Stock Journal deals with the ques¬ 
tions which are involved in the trade in animals between 
England and America in a manner so reasonable that we ven¬ 
ture to reprint some of the observations in preference to 
treating the matter from our professional point of view. 
In referring to the part taken by the American press, the 
writer says : 
“ We exceedingly regret to see the tone of personal ani¬ 
mosity with which certain American journals continue to 
discuss the fate of Mr. Arthur Arnold’s attempt to re-establish 
free trade in cattle disease. The matter is not one for feel¬ 
ing or for tall writing; it has long passed that; and as we 
know that our columns are, as is natural, constantly referred 
to, and not seldom quoted, on the other side, we would beg 
our American contemporaries of their courtesy to calmly con¬ 
sider the following phases of this matter, in relation to the 
complaints we shall quote from them. 
“ 1. The NewYork World observes that, f The man is an 
idiot who believes that cattle shipped from Canadian ports 
are less likely to be affected with disease than cattle shipped 
from United States ports.’ Now, this is simply beside the 
mark. It is no matter of what is f likely/ or what anybody 
ought to f believe’ about it. It is the fact that diseased 
cattle are constantly found in American cargoes, and are not 
found in Canadian cargoes. As soon as Canada is found 
affected she will be scheduled, as sure as fate. 
2. Heaps of papers observe that f Western’ cattle are 
free from disease, and that they constitute the exports for 
England, It was always reply enough to this, that whatever 
the exports were there were diseased cattle. But Americans 
will, we trust, ere this, have been convinced by the report of 
their own commissioner. Dr. Lyman, referred to in Pallia- 
