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WHAT REVIEW SUBSCRIBERS SAY. 
tion should produce some rare examples of wantonness, possibly 
on the part of both sides to it, but most certainly on the part 
of very many horseshoers, whom we are well aware are guilty 
of the charges which the estimable gentleman who complains 
lays against them. For ourselves, we have no defense whatever 
to make for the quack horse doctor, for such the empiric can 
only be dubbed, who will invade the precincts of a profession 
which has taken years of self-sacrifice and a constancy of effort on 
the part of earnest and devoted men to build up to a place within 
the realm of sciences which only high-minded knowledge, se¬ 
cured at a great cost of honest endeavor, fitted it for recognition. 
Invadersof the kind referred to are as injurious to the horseshoe¬ 
ing profession—aye, more so—than they are to that of veterinary 
medicine. Simply stated, they are “ double,” their actions going 
to show that they are falsely courting patronage by an indecent 
and dishonest display of talent, which they herald on glib 
tongues more after the manner of a horse jockey than that of a 
professor of real knowledge. Such actions the National Asso¬ 
ciation of Master Horseshoers has long since disapproved of, if 
not condemned, and they who are guilty stand as such re¬ 
proached by a justice-loving band, whose desire it is to do unto 
others as it would have others do unto it. The veterinary pro¬ 
fession on our side of the case need have no fear that the call 
which the National Association have long since issued to its 
members by the adoption of a resolution condemning empiri¬ 
cism will ever be revoked. The sign will always be hung 
out as a guiding mark to members to keep within the 
bounds where true unity and clean skill will find plenty reward 
and where vulturelike practices of any kind or description will 
continue to be frowned on by men whose regard for station is 
measured only by the rule of justice. 
WHAT REVIEW SUBSCRIBERS SAY. 
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