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protests against it, the ones always ready to illustrate its faults, 
are the ones who positively would not lend their assistance in its 
preparation that it might have been free from the defects against 
which they cry out ? Why will our members try to break down 
good laws that many of them have sorrowed over in the past 
because they did not exist ? Why will members of the veteri¬ 
nary profession, who believe in the merit system of appointment 
see it endangered for their own selfish ends when they know that 
for their own gratification lasting but for a few short moments 
at best they endanger a system which all aim to perpetuate in 
their own professional career? 
Why not pause a moment to think ? You will then realize 
your efforts for self-aggrandizement at the expense of your fel¬ 
low men are of the boomerang character and they are apt to 
turn upon the projector. Such work in the end will receive 
such recompense as it merits. 
“ Who by aspersions throw a stone at the head of others hit 
their own.” 
Why will the young men of to-day deride and criticise the 
older ones in practice with whom they come in competition ? 
They fail to realize their position as practitioners has been made 
possible by these same men who have worked shoulder to 
shoulder early and late when there was little apparent honor in 
it; at the same time breaking tidal wave after tidal wave of 
ignorance, arrogance and depression, they knowing full well 
that good intentions clothe themselves with sudden power. • 
Why is it that so many will be fully aware of many things 
punishable yet apparently fail to see them until they begin to 
encroach upon forbidden personal territory; then the cry of 
anguish is raised, and you are surprised that you are not imme¬ 
diately lifted out of the quagmire into which you persisted in 
going ? Why not come out boldly at the first offense, at the 
first trampling upon your rights assert your manhood and pro¬ 
fessional standing, for right is right, and wrongs no one ? Why 
not go through life bearing the load which the contingency of 
the times has thrust upon us, and bearing it with honor ; a credit 
