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its advancement and elevation, at least to the level of our sister 
profession, and above all defiling influences, and who is to-day 
(while indulging in a well-earned rest in his native home) con¬ 
gratulating the profession on what it has accomplished, yet it 
is equally refreshing to note the noble sentiments embodied in 
the honest appeal to the Review editors for the truth (which 
he trusts will be a refutation of the charges) and to know that 
this appeal,—expressing his fine sense of honor and regard for 
Alma Mater’s teachings,— emanates from a member of the pro¬ 
fession so charged. That appeal alone is a denial of the general 
application of the charge; and while there are such men in our 
ranks (and I am satisfied there are many such) we cannot, as a 
profession, fall into such degradation as was pictured to this 
young veterinarian. Let him continue to hold to his noble 
sentiments and he will find he has the loyal support of the 
professional element of the veterinary profession. 
Your correspondent states that he thinks such men should 
be “kicked out of every organization with which they have the 
effrontery to associate themselves.” I quite agree with him, as 
such men can in no way benefit an organization, as their senti¬ 
ments cannot be other than deleterious to their associates ; but 
at the .same time, I am of the opinion that once it was known 
to the members of an organization that a fellow member was 
of such a character (and it certainly would have to be known 
before there would be grounds to eject him) his expulsion would 
not have much weight with him, as he would have no further 
use for the organization anyway. I feel certain, however, that 
there are extremely few men engaged in the practice of veteri¬ 
nary medicine, as a profession^ in this metropolis, who stoop so 
low as your correspondent’s informant says as to put fixed 
prices on their honor, and barter it for gold. For what more or 
less is a man doing than bartering his honor and his soul for 
gold when he passes a horse for sounds knowing that he is un¬ 
sound^ for a consideration, or refuses to pass a sound horse as 
such, unless the dealer pays his “ scheduled demand,” when he 
has been employed by a client to render an honest opinion to 
him on said horse. 
It seems to me that the Fexow Committee two or three 
years ago clearly demonstrated that “ bribe-taking ” and “ ex¬ 
tortion” were and are “ misdemeanors, punishable by fine or 
imprisonment,” and if the dealers would protect themselves 
from these aptly termed “ sharks,” or extortionists, by an ap¬ 
peal to the legal authorities, instead of complying with their 
