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J. M. EMMERT. 
The question of slavery was settled by force of arms, but 
only after the people had been aroused by the teachings of Wen¬ 
dell Phillips, Ivloyd Garrison and Horace Greeley. 
Notwithstanding the newspaper campaigns of these men, 
and the eloquent addresses in the halls of Congress, the one 
quiet, pathetic, earnest and truthful appeal made by Harriet 
Beecher Stowe through “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was the “still 
small voice”-that aroused the people to action, and slavery 
went down before its mighty influence. 
Thus it is that in all reforms it is the quiet but persistent 
work by those who are devoted to the cause that will win in 
the end. 
I have selected this subject for your consideration to-night 
because I regard you as a band of educated and scientific men, 
who are engaged in the great warfare against filth and disease, 
and preach the gospel of cleanliness and happiness, and I want 
to welcome you as co-workers in this field with the profession 
to which I have the honor to belong. 
The day of the “ Horse Doctor ” is past and gone, and the 
educated veterinarian has taken his place, full of enthusiasm, 
zeal, and a desire to understand the underlying causes of disease, 
and, if possible, to remove them. 
He is satisfied with nothing but a scientific explanation of 
all questions pertaining to the profession. I am. rejoiced to find 
so many of the profession not only interested in sanitary ques¬ 
tions, but piactical sanitarians. As the people become educated 
to your worth, not only as veterinarians, but as sanitarians, 
your sphere of usefulness will extend. 
You are presumed to understand the diseases of animals, 
both alive and dead, and able to point out and explain the dif¬ 
ference between diseased and healthy food products, especially 
meat and milk. This being the case, no man in the community 
can be of as much benefit upon the local boards of health as the 
learned veterinarian, and I think the time is not far distant, or 
at least I hope so, when every slaughter house, meat market, 
dairy, or other place where food products are brought and sold, 
