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EDITORIAL. 
ing the loss from about 15 per cent, to i per cent. This year 
we have demonstrated that Texas fever can be prevented with¬ 
out serious restriction to the traffic in southern cattle, and this 
discovery will save millions of dollars annually to the people of 
the Southern and Southwestern States and Territories. We 
are also introducing a serum treatment for hog cholera which 
saves 80 per cent, of the animals in diseased herds. These 
discoveries, made by experimenting upon animals, mean not 
only many millions of dollars to the country, but they mean the 
cheapening of the food-supply, which is always equivalent to 
saving human suffering and prolonging human life, and they 
also mean the prevention of infinite suffering among the species 
of animals affected by these diseases. 
Under these circumstances is it not time fcr the liberal and 
intelligent members of the American Humane Association, who 
joined that organization to prevent cruelty to animals rather 
than to secure personal notoriety, to stop and consider whether 
they are called upon to further support and encourage those 
narrow-minded and intolerant people whose efforts are a hind¬ 
rance rather than an aid to the cause of humanity ? 
Assuring you again of my appreciation of your invitation^ 
and of my sympathy with every intelligent effort for lessening 
the great sum of misery and suffering to which both our own 
race and the lower animals are subject, I am. 
Very sincerely yours, 
(Signed) D. E. Salmon, 
Chief of Bureau. 
All this association needs is a little more rope, and it will 
hang itself. The Philadelphia Medical Journal for Decem¬ 
ber loth printed the correspondence in full, together with 
the excellent paper which Dr. Salmon had prepared, and edr 
torially made the following comment: 
“ Kindness to Animals, or Hatred of Science, 
Which ?—In the transfer of a car-load of animals across the 
continent, or of a ship-load to Europe, there is a hundred times 
more suffering, more awful torture, than in all the laboratory- 
experiments of the whole world since science has existed. Laws 
exist on the statute books, which, if carried into effect, would 
do away with these atrocities. In entire frankness we ask what 
is the conclusion logically necessary from the crusade of the 
antivivisectionists against scientific investigation ? Plainly it 
