A NATIONAL VETERINARY POLICE 
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From these three veterinarians should be selected one, to be 
called Veterinary Inspector-General of the United States. He 
should be attached to the National Board of Health, as well as 
National Bureau of Agriculture. He should hold his appoint¬ 
ment until sixty years old, unless incapacitated for work by dis¬ 
ease, and should receive $5,000 per year actual pay. The same 
should lie, in full, continued to him during life, and in case of his 
death, to his widow or minor children. This plan is, we know, 
anti-American, but, on the other side, it is the only one which 
can result in obtaining the best man, and that is nothing else 
than best serving the needs of the people. We would have this 
position awarded for the lirst time by competition, before the 
members of the National Board of Health, or before a commis¬ 
sion of our most intelligent stock raisers, selected by the Presi¬ 
dent, one each from the different geographical sections of the 
country. 
Each State should have a State Veterinary Inspector-General 
and county and district veterinary officials, and notwithstanding 
our great poverty in competently educated, graduated men, still 
it should be made a lens in each State that no empiric, no matter 
how “practically ” competent such a man may be considered , 
should ever hold such an official position. This is the point to¬ 
ward which we have to aim, the goal to which we must attain. 
It contains nothing opponent to State rights in the true sense. 
Let us see how such a system would work. We will suppose 
District Veterinary Surgeon L. lives in Columbus, Ohio. We 
will assume rinderpest appears, apparently a sporadic case, in his 
district. He at once telegraphs the State Inspector-General, 
who in his turn telegraphs the National Inspector. The latter 
notifies each State Inspector-General, who in his turn notifies 
each district and county or other local inspector in his respective 
State, in a manner to be fixed by law. What is the result? The 
entire country is as one man armed and on the alert against the 
devastating fiend. Not a head of cattle, not a sheep or swine 
can be moved without its authorized “ clean bill of health ” and 
its proper supervision from point of shipment to destination. 
The end attained is the greatest possible protection of the animal 
