The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-03-26

ton is in her decadence, whereas O.,
truth is that she is stronger, ADLER, clear
er and more far-sighted, more enocon
cal of her strength and better tltte@ t(
make a fight against disease than any
She has been ready and willing for more
than ten years to husband her constant
ly depicting income by surrendering the
Red Cross into competent hands, but nc
one has yet appeared, excepting an oc-
casional poseur, who would have any
thing to do with its management, while
every ambitious man and woman who
thought the presidency of the Red Cross
might help them socially, in Europe as
we'll as here, has vonished as The mist
of the morning upon learning that the
presidency of the Red Cross carries
with it penalty in the shape of cash
which has to be provided for its main
tcnance and extension. The only point
| involved in the matter is that having
created the Red Cross in America by
her own money, Miss Barton naturally
reveres the product of her efforts and
objects to making disposition of the
organization that might result in its dis
memberment and eventual dissolution
Whenever the proper person, man or
woman, Or all aggregation of them in
the shape of committee, come forward
with the ability to take up the work and
preserve the autonomy of what she has
brought forth, she will retire gracefully
and with grateful heart. She feels that
she owes it to the people, to the gov
ernment, to the numberless Red Cross
societies in other lands and. more than
all, to herself, to conserve what she has
brought into being and to take no step
that does not contemplate the safety and
further development of her benefcent
undertaking. This has been her attitude
of mind since as early as 1893, and she
expressed herself clearly and with ab-
solute truth when she spoke at the an
nual meeting of the members of the
Red Cross, held at the Arlington hotel
in Washington ON July 10, 1000.
PRESIDENTS LETTER. WOUNDS
HER.
The letter that the President caused
Mr.. Cortelyou to write to Miss Barton
has wounded her more. than she could
have been hurt by the flying fragments
of shell, and both she and her friends
are at loss to understand how he could
have been led to do this when even
cursory glance at the broad subject
would have convinced him that the mat
ter admitted of no controversy whatso-
ever. To those familiar with Red Cross
history it is most obvious that as surely
as somebody blundered when into the
Valley of Death rode the six hundred,
just SO surely was someone laboring
under a gross misconception of Red
SlOSS tHdllS WHICH lItS IISSlNtlfI was
informed concerning them, and believ-
ing in his courage and high sense of
honor, the friends of the Red Cross and
of Miss Barton fell assured that he will
amend his action as soon as the read
issues in the case are brought to his
notice
Referring to the memorial to Con-
gress on, the contents of which Presi-
dent Roosevelt based his refusal to serve
on the board of consultation of the Red
Cross or to allow the members of his
cabinet to serve, it will be seen that he
was n'isinforned as to what was done
and the manner in which it was done at
the Red Cross annual meeting on De-
cen1ber 9, 1909. 1t is greatly to be re-
GREETED that such action should have
been taken by the President without
giving hearing to the majority of the
or to Miss Barton herself. |
There is nothing new or strange in the
fact that there should be differences of |