EDITORIAL. 
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is not pity for suffering that is the dominant motive with them, 
but the old mediaeval hatred of science. If it were horror of 
suffering the infinitely greater evil would be attacked first. 
Antiscience is neither ingenuous nor is it logical. A tithe of 
the zeal expended would eradicate the hideous, illegal, un¬ 
necessary torment in the shipment of cattle. We even protest 
that there is more suffering from the callousness and brutality 
in the markets and restaurants of one city in one day, than in 
all the laboratories of the world during the same day. What 
are the antivivisectionists doing to stop it ? What shall be 
thought of the motives of people who ignore all this and forbid 
Dr. Salmon to speak to them ? The old superstition that per¬ 
secuted ‘heretics,’ Galileos, and Quakers, is by no means 
dead.” 
A TRANS-MISSISSIPPI ASSOCIATION. 
The question of establishing an Association in the West, 
thus virtually dividing the American Veterinary Medical Asso¬ 
ciation, is being agitated, and in our Department of “ Society 
Meetings ” in this issue will be found reference to it in the re¬ 
ports of two State meetings—the Illinois and Missouri. Thus 
far it appears that only an expression of opinion is asked for, 
which was in both instances adverse to the proposition. We 
advise our Western friends to go slowly in this matter, and re¬ 
flect upon the adage that “United we stand, divided we fall.” 
The National Association needs every member it can secure in 
all the territory over which its influence can be extended, and 
the more its arms stretch forth the greater its opportunity to 
guide and protect the footsteps of the young profession. The 
only object which the National Association has or can have is 
the greatest good to the greatest number. A Western associa¬ 
tion, we fear, will restrict the influence for good of the one, and 
be not of much advantage to the other. 
Our pages are overrun this month, and a large number of 
extra ones have been added, just as has been the case for some 
time past. Our collaborators and correspondents are asked to 
have a little patience with us if the publication of their valued 
