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

President Garfield died and Genera
Arthur succeeded him. Mr.. Blaine
quickly resigned and Mr. Frelinghuyser
became the secretary Of state. President
Arthur told Miss Barton that anything
she felt moderately sure his predecessor
would have done if spared, he would
do, and he kept his promise. In his first
message he devoted paragraph to the
Geneva Treaty. urging its ratification by
the Senate. His action resulted in such
ratification by the Senate on March I,
1882.
MISS BARTON BEARS EXPENSE.
Up to this time Miss Barton had
paid for clerk hire, stationery, printing,
postage, conveyance, rent, fuel and light
out of her own purse, and has contin-
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 Aneri-
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 Of
ganization fro nthe beginning to the
present time has been paid almost Who'll
ly out of the private means of its presi-
dent. The 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 its 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 tall 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
inadequately, 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.
"It 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
that this letter was written under an
entire misrepresentation of the facts is
quite apparent
Tn the month of September, 1900, I
WdS III w dSIlllStOH dtiu tiiC ASSOSldtCu
Press reported on Or about the 10th of
that month thar there was trouble in
Galveston. I saw Miss Barton at Glen
Echo and though she was suffering
from 4 cold she was preparing to start
for Texas. On her arrival in Galveston
a report was Immediately telegraphed
north that she was seriously i'll, coupled |
with an intimation that her career was
ended, which with characteristic prompt |
ness and vigor she emphatically re-
sisted, and the person who is thought to |
have originated that report for Interior |
lost no time in returning to |
leaving Miss Barton to
her own devices. She remained person. |
ally in Galveston from early in Sep
.ernber until the middle Of November |
and her field agents until March.
FALSE REPORTS OF DECADENCE
But in the face of the above it has
continued to be asserted that Miss Bar