The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-03-22

President Garfield died and Gener;
Arthur succeeded him. Mr.. Blain
quickly resigned and Mr.. Frelinghuyse
became the secretary of state. Presiden
Arthur told Miss Barton that anything
she felt moderately sure his predecesso
would have done if spared, he woult
do, and he kept his promise. In his frs
message he devoted a paragraph to tn
Geneva Treaty, urging its ratification b.
the Senate. His action resulted in sucl
ratification by the Senate on March I
1882.
MISS BARTON BEARS EXPENSE
Up to this time Miss Barton hac
paid for clerk hire, stationery, printing
postage, conveyance, rent. fuel and light
out OF her own purse, and has conti1l-
ued to do SO from the time she appeared
in Washington on her Red Cross mis-
sion IN 1879, through all the speeding
years. Many subscriptions, and generous
ones too, have been made to the Ameri-
can Association of the Red Cross for
the purpose of relieving specific dis
tress, at Johnstown, in the flooding val
leys of the Mississippi, in Cuba during
the war with Spain, at Galveston, and
elsewhere, but that money has been
spent for relief purposes, pure and SIM
pie. The expense of maintaining the or
ganlzation fro mthe beginning to the
present time has been paid almost Who'll
ly out of the private means of its presi-
dent. he prevailing opinion is that the
Rer Cross is supported by the govern
ment and that it has no need of money
for the extension of it's organization and
the expansion of its usefulness.
The fact is that the Red Cross, the
world over, is supported by the people
and its office is to serve the government
in times Of war by caring for those
who fall in battle Or are overtaken by
disease on the field
But all Of the contributions referred
to were spent for relief. and the very
life and continued existence of the Red
Cross, as an institution at once grand
and effective, have been dependent upon
the moderate income of one woman. No
man competent to fill her position even
would undertake her du-
ties on salary of $4,000 per annum,
and | know of many whose duties are
less onerous than hers have been who
are paid $4,000 per annum and up
wards.
BEGINNING OF TROUBLE
at is unnecessary to say that at the |
present time all is not entire harmony
within the Red Cross organization. A
recent letter written by Mr. Cortelyou
has apprised the country of this. But
hat this letter was written under an
entire msapprehension of the facts is
luite apparent.
in the month OF September, 1900,
vas in Washington and the Associated
Press reported on OF about the 10th of
hat month that there was trouble in
Galveston. | saw Miss Barton at Glen
Echo and though she was suffering
rom cold she was preparing to start
or Texas. On her arrival in Galveston
report was Immediately telegraphed
lorth that she was seriously i'll, coupled
With an intimation that her career was I,
nded, which with characteristic prompt
ess and vigor she ernphatically re-
listed, and the person who is thought to
ave originated that report for. ulterior
urposes lost no time in returning to
leaving Miss Barton to +
er own devices. She remained person. Il
lily in Galveston from early in Sep
einber until the middle of November
nd her field agents until March.
ALSE REPORTS OF DECADENCE G
"But in the face of the above it has +
to be asserted that Miss Bar a
N is in her decadence, whereas the +
nth is that she is stronger, abler, clear t
], and more far-sighted, more enocomi- e
Il of her strength and better fitted to d
axe fight against disease than any Il
oman twenty-five years her junior a
lie has been ready and willing for more Il
an ten years to husband her constant II
depicting income by surrendering the E
ed Cross into competent hands, but no
le has yet appeared, excepting an oc- Il
sional poseur, who would have any a
ing to do with its management, while a,
cry ambitious man and woman who :,
ought the presidency of the Red Gross II
lght help them socially, in Europe as
I'll as here, has vonished as the mist W
the. morning upon learning that the s.
esidency If the Red Cross Carries II
tn it a penalty in the shape of cash T
lich has to be provided for its MAIN q,
nance and extension. The only point er