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EDITORIAL. 
well-shaped, middle-priced saddle-horse, for which there is such 
a great demand from the armies the world over. Yet, as we 
have no stallions nor mares of an established army type and as we 
have an abundance of coach-types, we should import some of 
them, selected by expert veterinarians, to have a nucleus to start 
from in the breeding of these horses. 
ARE THE APPOINTMENTS OF QUACKS INFECTIOUS ? 
When the Governor of Illinois so far disregarded the de- 
* mands of the legitimate veterinary profession of that State as to 
appoint to the high office of State Veterinarian a man deficient 
in every qualification to fill the position—a man without scien¬ 
tific training and education and avowedly opposed to higher 
education—notwithstanding the fact that he had been made 
conversant with these points, it was supposed that the acme of 
political contempt for the public welfare and common decency 
had been reached, and that the righteous indignation manifested 
by the profession of that State and elsewhere would be a suffi¬ 
cient safeguard against the repetition of such an atrocious oc¬ 
currence for some time at least. The Review denounced the 
monstrous outrage in unmeasured terms, and spurred on the 
veterinarians of Illinois to rebuke the high-handed action of the 
politicians by every means in their power. In the very next 
issue (July) we were again called upon to chronicle the appoint¬ 
ment by the local Board of Health of Nashville, Tenn., of a 
non-graduate to the office of Meat Inspector of that city, not¬ 
withstanding that his two competitors for the position were 
graduates in veterinary medicine. Now, for the third con¬ 
secutive issue of the Review, we record a similar act in the 
State of Michigan, where so eminent a member of our profession 
as Prof. E. A. A. Grange, a man who has been long tried, and 
who is regarded by his fellow-veterinarians throughout the 
country as an earnest, brilliant and distinguished scientist, has 
been displaced in the important and responsible post of State 
Veterinarian to make room for a non-graduate. 
