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EDITORIAL. 
—such as: measures against the spread of epidemic diseases, 
encouragement of international trade; tuberculosis, foot-and- 
mouth disease, swine fever, etc. 
But a few months ago the veterinary word was “ On to I 
Omaha.” May we call now for that of “ On to Baden-Baden?” 
THE WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY. 
If ever a sect or association labored under an incubus of 
fanatical ignorance and prejudice, the American Humane Asso¬ 
ciation is the one of most prominent distinction, and the incu¬ 
bus is its local society located in the District of Columbia, 
whose recent action should expose it to the ridicule of all men, 
and result in its gradual but certain disintegration, and its place 
taken by some other organization with brains and humanity 
instead of a narrow-minded, imbecilical, hypocritical conglom¬ 
eration of long-eared fanatics, who cannot spare sufficient 
brains from the function of feeding themselves to grapple 
with an idea larger than a pea. This local society is father 
and mother of the Antivivisection Bill, which has been before 
Congress as a menace to scientific progress for a number of 
sessions, and they regard every living being who cannot curtail 
himself within its narrow cloak and become an advocate of that 
foolish emanation of a lot of cranks, as an enemy of society and 
one to be looked down upon from their lofty heights of morality. 
The American Association met in the Capitol City in December, 
and in seeking papers to be read at that meeting the Chairman 
of its Sub-Executive Committee wrote to Secretary Wilson, and 
solicited a contribution from Dr. D. E. Salmon, Chief of the 
Bureau of Animal Industry, and expressing the greatest pleasure 
and satisfaction when informed that the Department of Agri¬ 
culture would co-operate with them. Dr. Salmon announced 
his subject as follows : “ Diseases and Abuses of Animals in the 
United States : what is being done by the Federal Government 
toward their alleviation and prevention, and what the Humane 
Societies of the country may do to assist in these efforts.” When 
everything had been thus settled, and the distinguished head of 
