Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian / Founder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of America

by Charles Sumner Young

They would bind on their “brassards” and march to the fray.

And the man liveth not who could say to them nay;

They would stand with you now, as they stood with you then,—

The nurses, consolers, and saviours of men.

LXXVII

Clara Barton started the Red Cross alone.

Boston (Mass.) Transcript.

Miss Clara Barton, the American Red Cross is your society alone, and none other we will patronize. G. Moynier, President, International Red Cross Committee, Geneva, Switzerland.

The total expense connected with the acceptance of the Treaty by this Government, in addition to the personal service of more than five years, was defrayed individually by Clara Barton. Red Cross Committee (in 1903). House Document No. 552, Vol. 49, 58th Cong.

If we heed the teachings of history we shall not forget that in the life of every nation circumstances may arise when a resort to arms can alone save it from dishonor.—We must be prepared to enforce any policy which we think it wise to adopt. Chester A. Arthur, The President. (In advocacy before Congress of Clara Barton’s Red Cross Measure).