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Day
25
Month
June
Year
1884
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To the A.nn Akbor Coumbr: The conductor of the train on the G. H. V. br.inch of the Michigan Central railroad, leaving Grand Rapids ït ü r. m., the afterDOOD the Medical Society adjourned, stated to a passenger that he liad "aboiit forty (40) Maclean passes on his train alone!" Severa] gentlemen on the train, witnessed the distribution of conductora slips by a yonng man said to be Dr. Rowley, Dr. Maclean's issUtant or partner. The State presa has been commendably active in exposing and rebuking the pretensions a nd Pecksniilian morality of a governor who only wanted passsea for himself and wife. Is it less offensive In a profesor in B State University, teaching young men - an active aspirant to the presidency of a scientific body- an office that had preVÏOUSly POllffht tho ma, to Otrek the WJSltion by the use of scores of passes? ís it less demoralizing to the recipiente, and the public? Is it not patent that the majority of those wïllingto accept such obligatious ander such circumstances will be young and thoughtless.or the indifferent, or those who can be influenced by the bestowal of such favors? Is not the whole business a form of bribery and tending to corruption and breaking down of con-f lidence in moráis in medicine or science? This is not the iirst attempt to manage a medical society by the aid of a railroad. Dr. Maclean is surgeon of the Michigan Central railroad. He had been appointed but the day befoie the meeting of the society last year, and signalized his Indootion into office by the free use o passes. He was a candidato for the presidency at that meeting. The conductor of the first train eastward froin K;ilamazoo after Ilie adjoiirnment stated that he liad twenty (20) Maclean passes on his train alono! I woulil suggest that here is oft'eied an opportunity to do good also at honii; where mUsimiuricR are often advised to work - calling attention to the demoralizng effect wrought by wrong examples in teachers on students of medicine, on the younger momben of the profession, and on all the medical and lay public alike, who think wliatever is done by those in high places is safe to follow, and on the public confidence In the inorality of a profession claiming not simply to be above quackery, but to be pre-emiuent in honor and nobility of character. Nothüig would more please those members of the State society who bes represent it, and the profession, than to see a purely spontaneous and genuine expressio') of confidence in Dr. Maclean. And naturally nothing of its kind seems more pitiable than the attempt by artífice to give his election the appearance of a viudication. No one ventured to move to make the election unanimous. Taking out the nearly seventy new membera and a majority wcre against him. Counting only the active menibers of the Society who have resularly attended it at their own expense, and have kept it alive and given it character and standing while Macleau was denouncing it, the vote against liim would have been three to one. He has made his victory of llttle worth by his methods of accomplishing it. Honesty. Leondas with his band ofGrceks was able to defend Tlicmopylae because Xerxes had but a single pass for his host of Persiana. liad lie Known the Maclean metliod he would doubtless have received several 6core of passes and used tliein all. - Evening News. Hcrbert Spencer will conduele his series of political essays in the "Popular Science Monthlv'' with a paper entitled " The Qreat Political Superstltion," in the July number. In this paper he soys tliat the lunction of Liberalism in the past was that of putting a limit to the power of kings. The function of true Liberalism in the future willbe thatot putting a limit to the power of parliamcnts.

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Ann Arbor Courier
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