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sert, that as a people we are as yet absolutely ignorant with re¬ 
gard to the true nature of this momentous question and the many 
side issues connected with it. 
It is at present pretty well known to the many readers of the 
Turf ’ that we are stubbornly and persistently advocating the 
many advantages which would be offered to the nation by a 
National Veterinary School, as contrasted with State schools or 
uncontrolled private institutions. In doing this, we are, to the 
best of our ability, following the teachings and evidences of his¬ 
tory, and endeavoring to make them of practical value to the 
people of this country, whose servants we are. In advocating a 
National Vetermary Police , the same desire tills our mind, and 
the ultimate hope of success inspires our ambition, hard as the 
task at present appears. 
We will, for a moment, give our attention to the doctrine of 
State rights, and its probable results. At present, the minds of 
our cattle breeders and dealers are much excited on the question 
of the contagious lung disease of cattle. New York, New Jersey 
and Pennsylvania at present appear to be the centre of contam¬ 
ination. New York, by the liberal appropriation of funds and the 
passage of exacting and appropriate regulations, is, with the as¬ 
sistance of that able veterinarian, Mr. James Law, doing her best 
to stamp out the disease. “ Stamp out ” is but another term for 
kill out. New Jersey is, on the contrary, temporizing with the 
destroyer. See Mr. Holcombe’s letter in the July number of the 
Veterinary Review , where more than abundant proof is given of 
the weakness and fallacy of the New Jersey policy. The action 
in that State is of the ft do not hurt him” or temporizing kind. 
One can but ask, What is the use of the State of New York 
spending thousands of dollars to kill out the disease, while New 
Jersey is keeping a pestilential hot-house by her side ? We might 
as well endeavor to keep the small-pox out of the country when 
it is raging in Great Britain, by doing away with all quarantine 
regulations at one port of entry, while keeping them active at all 
others. Unless we quarantined, i. e., shut off all communication 
from and with such a free port, our quarantine at the others 
would be useless. So will it be with New York. So long as the 
