Friend of mine!
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The Red Cross Organization has been built up largely by the heroic work of Clara Barton. Frederick H. Gillett, Chairman (1900) House Committee on Foreign Relations; now Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Honor to whom honor is due. St. Paul.
Never did an organization select so wisely and elect so judiciously as did the National Red Cross Association when it chose Clara Barton to preside over its beneficent work.
Johnstown (Pa.) Democrat.
In Cuba, the Red Cross Society snatched thousands from the grave and made the sufferings of other thousands much lighter. But for Clara Barton America would today have been a stranger to the Red Cross and its beneficent work. Doctor Henry M. Lathrop. Author of “Under the Red Cross; or the Spanish-American War.”
Miss Barton’s well-known ability, her long devotion to the noble work of extending relief to suffering in different lands, as well as her highest character as a woman, commend her to the highest consideration and good will of all people.
President William McKinley.
Officers and men unite in saying that too much praise cannot be given those noble Christian women, Clara Barton and her assistants, for their gentle care, their tender solicitude and untiring efforts in aiding and comforting our sick and wounded soldiers. They came as ministering angels to the suffering army at Santiago.