EDITORIAL. 
721 
our dental cousins, nor our friends of the legal fraternity, are 
called upon to bestow such incessant watchfulness over the laws 
which were made to bar charlatanism from their ranks; our 
science must either be a magnet or else it is regarded as an easy 
mark by those who wish to break through the fences of its legal 
enclosure. It would also seem that repeated failures to effect 
an entrance into the forbidden pasture have no influence in 
dampening the ardor or the hopes of those whose professional 
education is less than that which is prescribed by the New York 
law ; they come and they come again. But every year the pro¬ 
fession is better prepared to resist the attacks. The State Soci¬ 
ety feels that the responsibility to maintain the laws intact rests 
upon it, and it has placed itself in position to fight every mea¬ 
sure that in any degree challenges the integrity of our statutes. 
Its Legislative Committee is in touch with the daily proceedings 
of the Senate and the Assembly, and upon the first approach 
of danger an alarm is sent forth to an organized force of earnest 
men in every county of the State which has a representative vet¬ 
erinarian within its borders, and the entire machinery of the 
State organization is at once thrown into action. There will 
not be a Senator nor an Assemblyman who will not be appealed 
to by a veterinary constituent to destroy the bill which menaces 
our laws. So that if all do their duty there is no chance what¬ 
ever of a pernicious bill reaching a favorable report from the 
committee to which it has been referred. 
These remarks are prompted at this time, not only to inform 
the profession of other States what appears to be the best means 
of coping with this important matter, as learned from continu¬ 
ous experience, but to warn the profession of the Empire State 
that, notwithstanding its apparent security through organized 
resistance and its capacity to repel such extraneous propositions, 
word reaches us that the greatest fight in the history of the So¬ 
ciety must be made at the present session of the legislature. 
Last year the clamorings of the malcontents were appeased by 
an act which the Society permitted to become a law, since its 
consummation involved the unanimous approval of the Board 
