Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-07
THE RED CROSS.

The Pulse of This Organization Responds to
General Opinion That There Will DO War
What Miss Barton. President of the
American Branch. Has to Say-The Shad-
owy Outlines That are Full of Portent.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 1.-The
headquarters of the American Red Cross
Association are located in Washington,
the home of Miss Clara Barton, the
President of the American branch. Miss
Barton, ever since she represented this
country in the Geneva Red Cross confer
ence has been in communication with the
leaders of this world wide humane Or
ganization at home and abroad, and no
one in this country has watched more
closely the course of affairs in Europe
than she has. Miss Barton does
not hesitate to express her fears
that a great struggle is impending
there between England and Russia, and
in an Interview with a United Press re-
porter yesterday, stated very fully some
of the reasons, other than the surface in
dications reflected in the daily newspa-
per reports, which lead her to believe
that war is imminent. Miss Barton
said:
"From the close relations existing be-
tween the Red Cross and the military
movements of the various nations, it is
impossible that the former should fail to
note with sensitive accuracy the warlike
pulse beat of the world directly under
the patronage of the crowned heads. Its
National Presidents are selected from
active rulers, high staff officers, Generals,
Surgeon-Generals and Princes of the
line. 1t is these persons whom
it inevitably brings into
confidential and familiar correspondence,
the very commences of which insures it's
being handled with great reserve. That
there has existed during the past year
greatly increased activity in the move
ments of the Red Cross the world over,
has been to me noticeable fact, and that
this increased activity has been the re.
suit of quickened apprehension of i'm.
pending war in Europe, is at least a
strong presumptiye fact.'
s'The Red Cross Association is both
humanely and legally geared to the great
war chariots of so-called civilization; its
machinery must move with theirs, and
the world has come to regard it as
significant, when its bearings are
beng inspected, and it's axles oiled.
cit is significant" said Miss Barton,
"that the international Committee OF
Geneva within the last year has felt it to
be necessary to call a conference of it's
thirty military powers to personally ad.
wise in regard to the most effective meth
DDS of war relief. 1t was significant that
the Empress of Germany, as President
of the Red Cross Association of
Germany should at that time, have Of
fered a valuable prize and gold medal
for the best movable field hospital the
world could invent, and that her phil
anthropic daughter, Louise of Baden,
should have been willing to take upon
herself the labor and responsibility
or sooner if needed, and to offer her
court for it's assemblage.
"From Rome last month came the in.
formation that the King had made new
and high appointment to the Presi- |
dency of the Red Cross in Italy, and from
Brussels last week that Monsigneur LIE |
Prince De Ligue has willingly accepted |
the Presidency of the Red Cross of Bel |
GUM.
''For months past not many days have |
passed consecutively without bringing to !
the headquarters of the American Red |
Cross fresh evidence of the approach of |
war sooner or later to sweep over the old |
land.
81 have mentioned only shadowy out |
lines as we see them, and have long seen |
them reflected upon the worlds broad |
disc. Of the magnitude of the real OBJ !
iects lying below and back of them, or |
where the lightning will gather and the |
lightning will strike, these are as yet |
only problems to US, but probably equally |
so to those who are willingly or unwill-
nely trying their hands at the manufac-
ure of the thunder for which we daily |
isten"