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EDITORIAL. 
•Spect his conclusions as those of a man who has viewed the 
subject from every standpoint, and has weighed every condition 
of the scheme which he presents. He believes that, so far as 
any permanent good to the army and the profession goes, the 
bill which we have been for years urging upon Congress, is 
unworthy of us, and that it meets opposition largely through 
its own unworthiness. But, showing as he does the lack of 
professional supervision in army affairs to have resulted in great 
pecuniary loss to the country and needless suffering to the no¬ 
blest of man’s servants, his suggestions to create a department 
in the proposed reorganization which shall include more than 
-the mere treatment of sick and disabled animals, thus establish¬ 
ing a great economic department, extending its intelligent 
supervision over all related interests, must command the inter¬ 
est and co-operative support of the War Department and the 
Congress. 
The Review believes that the time has come when united 
exertion upon a broad and liberal basis will bring to the pro¬ 
fession honorable recognition and a dignified position in this 
important service, which will demonstrate to the country that 
the proper encouragement of this science in its practical appli¬ 
cation to the requirements of the War Department in peace and 
in war will yield the best results from every view point— 
efficiency to the service, economy to the treasury, humanity to 
the beast, and justice to a noble profession. 
AS TO THE GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS. 
When a little over a year ago we denounced Governor 
Tanner for his ignorant assault upon the veterinary profession 
by his refusal to select one out of a dozen or more of her 
worthy members for the important position of State Veteri¬ 
narian of the great commonwealth over whose destinies he had 
just been elected to preside for four long years, and the direct 
insult to them and the people of his State which he offered 
when he selected for that position a man totally unfit by educa¬ 
tion or training, we anticipated the character of the man who 
